BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's conservatives switched tactics four days before Germany's general election and attacked a eurosceptic party whose rapid rise endangers her centre-right coalition's bid to defend its majority in Sunday's vote.
Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), which had deliberately ignored the small Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) so far in the campaign, deployed one of their most respected figures - Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble - to rip into the new party.
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