Merz on the clock as Europe's populist right keeps its distance from the AfD

A week after the AfD's 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, the CDU is polling 7% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Bund yields are at 2009 highs. Yet Rome, Paris and London have kept their distance from the AfD, leaving Merz fighting his own party and the bond market rather than the far right.