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Germany’s three coalition parties continued a series of meetings on Tuesday in an attempt to secure a consensus on economic policy and the future of the coalition amid an intensifying government crisis. The coalition is due to meet on Wednesday for its first major meeting since the parliamentary summer break, but the three parties are deeply divided over economic policy. These divisions came to a head over the last few days after a policy paper by Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) was made public on Friday, in which he demanded a fundamental “reorienta…