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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMERKEL facing "populist"/nationalist threat over refugee immigration
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-17/merkel-fate-hangs-in-balance-as-csu-is-said-to-hand-her-deadline
Merkel Fate Hangs in Balance as CSU Sets Deadline
By Brian Parkin
June 17, 2018
* CSU leader reportedly says he cant work with Merkel any more
* CDU seeking compromise via EU partners, says key Merkel ally
Germanys Christian Social Union party will give Chancellor Angela Merkel a two-week deadline to meet its demands for overhauling asylum policy, the Bild Zeitung reported, in what would mark an unprecedented challenge to her authority that risks plunging the nation into chaos. ....
Possible Compromise
A key Merkel ally outlined a possible compromise to defuse the situation. The two coalition partners are of the same mind that those who have claimed asylum elsewhere shouldnt enter Germany, said CDU Secretary-General Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
Merkel is urging EU partners to give states more power to turn away refugees, averting a go-it-alone approach demanded by the CSU, she said in a Bild am Sonntag newspaper interview published Sunday. This is a functional solution, according to Kramp-Karrenbauer, that would avert a possible breakup in the governing coalition. ....
Europes migration crisis is not just being played out it Germany. Italy, run by a populist coalition, has started to turn away ships carrying refugees. ....
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MERKEL facing "populist"/nationalist threat over refugee immigration (Original Post)
UTUSN
Jun 2018
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sunonmars
(8,656 posts)1. From what I've heard and read here in Europe is she may be gone within days, played this all wrong.
UTUSN
(70,700 posts)2. oh good grief
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Smells of Putin
interference.