DW: Angela Merkel buys time in government crisis over asylum
Chancellor Angela Merkel has got her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer to agree to wait for an upcoming EU summit before imposing new border controls. His asylum reform plan could threaten the EU immigration system.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a minor victory in her ongoing standoff with ally Horst Seehofer, interior minister and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The crisis last week briefly threatened to break the age-old alliance between the two conservative parties.
Merkel managed to get Seehofer to agree to wait for a European summit at the end of the month, so that a new bloc-wide asylum reform could be agreed before he unilaterally imposed new border controls at Germany's borders.
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More News On Germany's Political Crisis Over Migrants
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Merkel's Government Avoids Collapse Over Migrant Battle, at Least for Now -- The Wall Street Journal
Germany's Merkel given ultimatum by interior minister over migration policy -- CNN
Germany: Interior minister gives Merkel ultimatum on migrants -- Al Jazeera
Angela Merkel Is Fighting for Her Political Life. Here's What to Know -- Billy Perrigo, Time
