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Germany’s governing Social Democrats (SPD) party said on Wednesday that it was more important than ever that the coalition finds a way out of the its government crisis in the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election to the White House. “I hope that everyone will now throw party-tactical considerations overboard, that they will look each other in the eye in the coalition committee this evening, that they will once again realize what responsibility they now bear,” SPD leader Lars Klingbeil said. The three parties have met for a series of crisis talks in recent days in an attempt to find common ground …