German election: Five key issues next chancellor will have to face

German election: Five key issues next chancellor will have to face

The next leader of Europe's biggest economy will face a public deeply dissatisfied with living standards, housing and less tolerant towards migrants than in previous years.

Germans will head to the polls on Sunday after an unexpectedly short election campaign marked by a bitter debate over immigration, security and a continued weak economic outlook. The leader of the largest opposition party, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, appears poised to be the country's next chancellor, according to the latest polls. With about 30 percent of the vote to be counted, Merz signaled he would be o…