"There will still be difficult discussions, but that's just how it is in a democracy," says Carsten Linnemann, general secretary of the CDU party, while coalition talks are expected to continue between Germany's main conservative parties, CDU and CSU, and the social-democratic party (SPD). "We will not allow ourselves to be put under pressure, not by the schedule, or by anything at all," Linnemann states during a press conference in Berlin. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES