Angela Merkel is against the ropes over migration to Germany and the EU
The German Chancellor makes an impassioned plea in parliament
Berlin — The EU’s fate rests on its ability to rise to the challenges of migration, a passionate Chancellor Angela Merkel told Germany’s parliament on Thursday ahead of a Brussels summit dominated by an issue that threatens her ruling coalition. Speaking with uncharacteristic emotion and at times shouting down a rowdy Bundestag, the embattled German leader tried to win over critics from within her own conservative ranks. Falling refugee numbers had ended the state of emergency that had caused her to throw open Germany’s doors to more than a million migrants in 2015, she said. Merkel needs other European countries to come to her aid in facing down a rebellion by conservative coalition allies in Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU), who demand that asylum seekers registered elsewhere in the EU be barred from entering Germany. "Europe faces many challenges, but that of migration could become the make or break one for the EU," Merkel told parliament. She said she would seek deals with...
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