Early projections of European election results in Germany indicate a poor performance of the country’s governing coalition and a significant rise in support for its centrist and right-wing political opposition. Germany’s conservative main opposition, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) — part of the EPP group in the European Parliament — are predicted to comfortably finish in first place with 29.5% of the vote. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “traffic light coalition” has slumped, with Scholz’s SPD party gaining only 14%, a decrease from the 15.9% it reached in 2…