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Merz insists he will stay as German chancellor despite heavy losses in state elections – Europe live
CDU suffered heavy losses in two regional elections, including in home state of former leader Angela Merkel, where it polled just 4.9% Speaking of EU sanctions, Kaja Kallas this morning in her condemnation of the Russian election fixing, also called for penalties against those who had helped stage the vote in occupied Ukraine. She said she had “proposed measures against those facilitating these sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories”. European Parliament members have also deplored the vote held in “the world’s least-free territories” which they said were staged under martial law, “amid coercion, forced ...
- Source published
- 21 Sept 2026, 12:20 CEST
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- 21 Sept 2026, 13:05 CEST
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- The Guardian - World
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- France, Ukraine, Germany, WHO, United States, Russia
CDU suffered heavy losses in two regional elections, including in home state of former leader Angela Merkel, where it polled just 4.9% Speaking of EU sanctions, Kaja Kallas this morning in her condemnation of the Russian election fixing, also called for penalties against those who had helped stage the vote in occupied Ukraine. She said she had “proposed measures against those facilitating these sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories”. European Parliament members have also deplored the vote held in “the world’s least-free territories” which they said were staged under martial law, “amid coercion, forced ...
What is reported
CDU suffered heavy losses in two regional elections, including in home state of former leader Angela Merkel, where it polled just 4.9% Speaking of EU sanctions, Kaja Kallas this morning in her condemnation of the Russian election fixing, also called for penalties against those who had helped stage the vote in occupied Ukraine. She said she had “proposed measures against those facilitating these sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories”. European Parliament members have also deplored the vote held in “the wo...
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