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Tamsin Paternoster

Europe's leaders are unpopular, but Germany's Merz is losing support fastest

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party faced a setback on 8 March, when it failed come first in a state election in Germany's third-largest state of Baden-Württemberg.

In a close vote, the Green party finished ahead of the CDU with 30.2% of the ballot, making it likely they will run the state in a coalition with Merz's party.

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