# Europe Today: AfD win piles pressure on Merz as Ukraine scrambles to fund the war

https://mins.news/en/item/49200

- euronews, 2026-09-08 06:01 UTC
- World
- Original: http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/08/europe-today-afds-win-piles-pressure-on-merz-as-ukraine-scrambles-to-fund-the-war

> Chancellor Merz is under mounting pressure a day after the AfD secured a historic victory in Saxony-Anhalt. Ukraine is also confronting a worsening economic challenge as it struggles to keep financing its war against Russia, while thousands attended Ratko Mladić’s pompous funeral in Serbia yesterday.

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