German conservative leader Friedrich Merz described the major victory by his Christian Democrats (CDU) in European Parliament elections as a major boost for their opposition to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left coalition. The result was “a complete disaster” for all three parties in Scholz’s coalition, Merz said on Monday after meetings with top CDU party committees in Berlin. He called the Greens the big losers in the European Parliament elections, although Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) faced their worst result in a democratic nationwide election in more than a century. The CDU and its B…