EU ON THE BRINK: Merkel Migration Distraction Could Plunge Brussels into ‘TURBULENT TIMES’

- EU ON THE BRINK: Merkel Migration Distraction Could Plunge Brussels into ‘TURBULENT TIMES’
by JOE BARNES, BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT, https://www.express.co.uk/
ANGELA MERKEL’S desperate attempt to hold onto power in Germany after a migration row within her own Grand Coalition could dominate the European Union’s June summit completely knocking its agenda off-kilter.
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The German Chancellor earned a two week reprieve from her coalition partners the Christian Social Union after its leader and the country’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer demanded a tightening of Germany’s borders. The CSU leader said Germany should start rejecting migrants at the border if they have already registered in another EU country, a complete contrast to Ms Merkel’s 2015 open-door policy which saw over a million refugees enter the country.
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After a series of crisis talks, Mr Seehofer granted Ms Merkel two weeks grace in order to hold meetings with her EU counterparts in order to find a continent-wide asylum solution. CSU leaders remain doubtful that a solution will emerge from the talks in the upcoming weeks. The Bavarian party’s parliamentary leader Alexander Dobrindt said: “A European solution means skating on thin ice.”
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The Bavarians will unlikely defy Ms Merkel but doing so would leave her CDU and the Grand Coalition’s third parter the Social Democrats without a parliamentary majority.
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