Angela Merkel faces critical meeting with coalition partners over migrants
Interior minister Horst Seehofer, who leads Merkel’s Bavarian sister party, has set an ultimatum that migrants be turned away from Germany’s border
Germany’s crisis over migration policy enters a critical phase on Monday with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political future on the line and the ripples already being felt across Europe. Merkel is meeting senior members of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at party headquarters in Berlin and plans to hold a media conference later in the day. At issue is an ultimatum set by interior minister Horst Seehofer, who leads her Bavarian sister party, to order migrants to be turned away from Germany’s border in a direct contradiction of the chancellor. Seehofer’s party, one of three in Merkel’s coalition, is poised to hand Merkel a two-week deadline to get a European deal facilitating the return of migrants to countries in which they were first registered. The demand is likely to be endorsed at a meeting of the Christian Social Union’s (CSU’s) executive in Munich on Monday, general secretary Markus Blume said on public broadcaster ZDF. Merkel must, meanwhile, decide whether to sack Seehofer ...
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