German Chancellor Angela Merkel will launch a new round of coalition talks today in a bid to end the country's political stalemate. More than three months after its election, Germany is still without a new government. <br/><br/>The five-day talks will include Ms Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), her allies the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Social Democrats (SPD). Experts say this may be her last chance to form a stable coalition. <br/><br/>The centre-left SPD has governed jointly with the chancellor's centre-right party for eight of the last 12 years. But a historically poor poll result in September saw SPD leader Martin Schulz vow to take the Social Democrats into opposition.