Merkel hijacked the CDU, she is no conservative. The gains of SPD and the Greens are at the expense of CDU. The same thing is happening in the UK. The EU is doomed.
It certainly is. That's what happens when a culture loses its soul. Today Europe has no purpose for even existing, except for the atomization of the populace based on the diffusion of ever-expanding rosters of individual "rights."
The rulers have no interest in defining themselves as nations, much less religious affiliations. There is no core identity left, after about 50 years of mind numbing leftist indoctrination.