‘Disaster’: Germany’s embattled chancellor suffers bruising election defeats

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faced a struggle to stabilise his position and keep his agenda on track on Monday after voters inflicted two more defeats on his party, ejecting it from a state legislature for the first time. The unpopular Merz vowed to stay on and push through reforms to Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, minutes after polls closed Sunday in regional elections in Berlin and in Me