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MIGRANT ROW: Reprieve for Merkel as opposition leader backs down
Relative reprieve has come the way of Angela Merkel after opposition leader and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer backed down from a threat to bypass the German Chancellor in a disagreement over immigration policy.
Seehofer on Monday agreed to implement his immigration “master plan” step by step, stopping short of unilaterally enforcing a policy opposed by Merkel while she attempts to find a solution at European level.
He also added that he’d be glad to see a European agreement but that “we want this national solution unless a European solution comes together”.
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“We wish the chancellor much luck,” he told a press conference.
Merkel had earlier been in disagreement with the leader of her Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), over a point in Seehofer’s plan that would see Germany turn away all migrants who have already registered elsewhere in the EU.
However, the move by Seehofer to back down from a threat to bypass Merkel now brings her reprieve over her biggest political crisis to date.
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