Germany news: Friedrich Merz set to confirm presidential nominee

The executive committee of the German chancellor's CDU party is expected to finalize its nomination for the country's president.

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is meeting on Sunday to finalize its nomination for the next German president. The CDU is expected to back Ilse Aigner, who is favored by its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU).

Veteran keeper Manuel Neuer has been added to the list of walking wounded at Bundesliga top team FC Bayern Munich, suffering a torn foot tendon in his team's 2-1 victory in Mainz. Neuer left the match just before the half. Bayern released a statement saying that the champion goalie would be "out for the time being."

As authorities in Poland try to make sense of yesterday's deadly shooting in Krakow, lists of victims' nationalities have been made public. German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's office on Sunday posted a statement of support on X, writing: "In this difficult hour, Germany stands in mourning and solidarity with Poland and its citizens."

Researchers have confirmed the loss of the Schwarzmilzferner, the last glacier in the Allgäu Alps on the border between Germany and Austria. Glaciologist Cristoph Mayer told the dpa news agency that the glacier will likely disappear "completely" by next summer.

A 22-year-old man took down the German flag at the Reichstag building in Berlin and replaced it with a Palestinian flag, police said on Sunday. Police have launched an investigation into a suspected case of denigration of the state and its symbols, damaging public property and trespassing.

Bavarian Premier Markus Söder has spoken out in favor of military conscription. "If our democracy is important to us, we have to stand up for it. That's why it is clear: We need true military conscription again," he wrote on X.

Germany's largest union, IG Metall, has called on workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant outside Berlin to walk out for two hours on Monday amid stalled wage negotiations. IG Metall is demanding 5% more pay for the around 96,000 employees in the metal and electrical industry in the states of Berlin and Brandenburg.

Young people are increasingly denying the facts of the Holocaust or downplaying its horrors, according to the head of the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin, Veronika Nahm. She attributes the rise in such opinions to ignorance rather than bad intentions on the part of young people.

Most people in Germany favor the government imposing a cap on prices for gasoline and diesel, according to a survey by the NIM Institute, with 71% of the people asked saying they would like the government to control fuel prices.