Germany’s interior minister suggests he will compromise to avoid a full-blown German coalition crisis
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Euronews: Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says the row between his Christian Social Union party and Chancellor Angela Merkel over migration policy is serious but can be overcome.
The comments suggest he will compromise to avoid a full-blown German coalition crisis.
But this weekend he was quoted in Welt am Sonntag as telling some CSU MPs: “I cannot work with the woman any more.” On Monday the CSU will decide whether to start implementing a plan drawn up by Seehofer to reject migrants who have already registered in other EU states.
The Guardian reported that “No one in the CSU is interested in bringing the chancellor down, or dissolving the CDU/CSU parliamentary partnership or destroying the coalition,” Seehofer told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, adding that he did not want the asylum row to endanger the coalition government, which is less than 100 days old.
Seehofer said his party was keen to find a way to limit the number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany. “We finally want to have a solution for the return of refugees at our borders which is fit for the future,” he added.
