Berlin - Berlin's conservative Christian Democrats and the left-leaning Social Democrats agreed yesterday to renew their coalition alliance in the German capital city's assembly after seven weeks of tense negotiations.
Negotiators from the two parties, which had run Berlin in an increasingly testy alliance since 1990, settled a dispute over who would get what cabinet post in overnight talks and completed the final hurdle to creating a new government for the city-state. The agreement is still subject to the approval of both parties.