German Chancellor Angela Merkel hammered out a last-minute deal to end a political standoff with her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, over the country’s migration policy that threatened to collapse their coalition government.
Seehofer, who is also the leader of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union — which is closely linked to Merkel’s Christian Democrats — had threatened to resign because the chancellor would not refuse entry to migrants who have asylum claims pending in other European Union countries.
Merkel and the Christian Democrats adamantly opposed that approach, arguing it was imperative to involve other EU nations in devising an effective new migration policy.
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