Just four months ago, Angela Merckel was riding high from a convincing center-right victory in Germany’s most recent parliamentary elections.  Now, with her coalition members set to bickering over tax cuts and the growing gulf between supporters of Turkey’s admission to the EU against those oppsoed to it, Merckel seems adrift in new, uncharted territory, heading toward unpopularity

Merckel’s center-right coalition divides, popluarity drops- ft.com