A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor’s hopes of winning, or even running, for a fourth term in 2017. Reuters’ Jo Webster reports
- Merkel defends migrant policy after right-wing AfD wins more votes in home state
- Merkel’s party loses to anti-immigration nationalists in German state vote