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A new opinion poll in Germany ahead of June’s European Parliament elections show the centre-right opposition bloc well ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) saw support climb teco 34% of voters in the poll released on Friday by broadcaster RTL/ntv. That is more than the combined support for all three parties in Scholz’s struggling coalition. The CDU/CSU won 28.9% of the vote in the most recent European Parliament elections in 2019. Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) polled at 16%…