FILE PHOTO - German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech as she attends a celebration event of the CDU Parliamentary Group in the State Parliament Thuringia for the Day of German Unity in the state parliament building in Erfurt, Germany, September 27, 2019. Jens Meyer/Pool via REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters) - Support fell for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives over the past week but rose slightly for their Social Democrat coalition partners after the ruling alliance agreed a package of measures to protect the climate.
The package includes a new domestic carbon pricing scheme, bigger incentives for buying electric cars, higher road tolls for trucks from 2023, and surcharges on domestic flights.
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