CDU leader warns SPD against careless coalition break-up Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, has warned its coalition partner the Social Democratic (SPD) party against a careless break of the grand coalition. In a surprise announcement that rattled Berlin, SPD leader Andrea Nahles said she was quitting her party's top jobs following an European election drubbing late last month. Merkel and other heavyweights in her CDU have sought to calm nerves, saying they stood by the coalition. IMAGES of press conference AND SOUNDBITES of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, CDU party leader\\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES