German Chancellor Angela Merkel: Europe’s Migration Crisis Is ‘Make-Or-Break’ For The EU

CNBC: Europe’s migration crisis is ‘make-or-break’ for the EU, Germany’s Merkel says

* EU leaders are meeting in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday and Friday to try to wrangle a solution on migration, with the issue leaving Merkel’s own political fate hanging precariously in the balance.
* “Europe faces many challenges, but that of migration could become the make-or-break one for the EU,” Merkel said during a passionate address to the German parliament.
* Merkel’s coalition partner CSU has given her until the end of the EU summit to alleviate the perceived burden of immigration on Germany.
* Europe’s largest economy has taken in around 1.6 million migrants since 2014.

The future of the European Union (EU) rests on the bloc’s ability to find a diplomatic answer to the migration crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday.

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday and Friday to try to wrangle a solution on migration, with the issue leaving Merkel’s own political fate hanging precariously in the balance.

The embattled German chancellor wants leaders to finalize the way they decide which European countries will take asylum seekers, and in what numbers. But deep divisions within the bloc mean Merkel is faced with a daunting uphill battle to find a so-called "European solution."

“Europe faces many challenges, but that of migration could become the make-or-break one for the EU,” Merkel said during a passionate address to the German parliament.

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WNU Editor: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's open border policy brought this crisis to where it is today .... and now she wants others to clean it up. I still expect an agreement will be reached when EU leaders meet in the coming days on what needs to be done to resolve this crisis .... it is not in their interests right now to see Merkel gone. But this is a temporary solution. Millions of migrants are still determined to move to Europe, and these measures will only involve shuffling migrants from one country to another. The real impact is when voters go to the polls in the coming months/years. Expect blow-back then, and Merkel and her coalition will probably be the first casualty.