Germany: SPD chancellor candidate Schulz attacks Merkel from the right By Johannes Stern 28 August 2017 The more the Social Democratic Party (SPD) declines in the polls—the party is running four weeks prior to the federal election at 22 percent, far behind Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at 39 percent—the more it lashes … Continue reading Germany: SPD chancellor candidate Schulz attacks Merkel from the right