Cem Özdemir and the Green Party won the Baden-Württemberg state election with 30.2 percent of the vote.The Free Democratic Party failed to reach the five percent threshold as the Alternative for Germany surged to 18.8 percent.Friedrich Merz declared the liberal party politically dead while ruling out any cooperation with the far-right.The narrow loss for the Christian Democratic Union follows reports of
EU workers leaving the country due to high costs.