#GERMANY: #Merkel, #EU Leaders Hammer Out Deal On Migrants; But Will It Satisfy Her Coalition Partner?

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Chancellor Angela Merkel's has met with EU leaders in Brussels, where they laid out a common European Union plan on keeping out more asylum-seekers. It's unclear, however, if Merkel has made a deal that would appease her Bavarian coalition partner, the Christian Social Union, which precipitated a government coalition crisis in the past few weeks by insisting that asylum-seekers who had already registered in other countries be turned away at the German border.

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#AUSTRIA: "Axis Of The Willing" Formed By Germany, Austria, Italy Against Illegal Immigration

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The interior ministers of Austria, Germany and Italy have formed an "axis of the willing" to combat illegal immigration, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz made the announcement in Berlin, escalating a Europe-wide conflict over the issue. The involvement of German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer will be seen as a shot across the bow at Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is trying to pull together a deal for EU cooperation on allowing more asylum seekers into Germany. Seehofer has given Chancellor Angela Merkel a two-week ultimatum to stem the flow of migrants, an issue threatening the stability of her coalition government.

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#GERMANY: Interior Min. Gives Merkel Ultimatum Over Migrants

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Hardliners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative ruling coalition have given her a two-week ultimatum to tighten asylum rules. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer's CSU Party unanimously backed his call to give Merkel a fortnight to find a European deal on the burning issue by a June 28-29 EU summit, failing which he would order border police to turn back migrants.

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#GERMANY: Dispute Over Refugee Numbers Threatens Merkel's Ruling Coalition

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A disagreement between Angela Merkel and and her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is threatening to collapse the German government less than three months after it was formed. Not for the first time, the two can’t agree on how to treat asylum seekers at the border. Seehofer and his Christian Democrats (Merkel's coalition partner, and ruling party of Bavaria) want solid limits on refugees being taken in at the border. Merkel's party has refused.

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