The German Social Democrats are entering the EU election campaign by staging themselves as strategists and taking sideswipes at the CDU and its lead candidate. „Leyen is hiding her candidates. Germany’s strongest voices for Europe show them„, reads the text for one of the election posters, which shows a silhouette of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and a photo of SPD lead candidate Katharina Barley. The SPD presented its campaign material yesterday.