BERLIN German Finance Minister and member of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) Joerg Kukies (L) and Saarland State Premier and SPD Deputy Party Chairwoman Anke Rehlinger (R) leave after talks with the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) at the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus building on February 28, 2025 in Berlin, as CDU and SPD hold exploratory talks on future government coalition. The two parties hoping to form Germany 's next government are planning to plough hundreds of billions of euros into