DW: Angela Merkel buys time in government crisis over asylum
Chancellor Angela Merkel has got her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer to agree to wait for an upcoming EU summit before imposing new border controls. His asylum reform plan could threaten the EU immigration system.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a minor victory in her ongoing standoff with ally Horst Seehofer, interior minister and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The crisis last week briefly threatened to break the age-old alliance between the two conservative parties.
Merkel managed to get Seehofer to agree to wait for a European summit at the end of the month, so that a new bloc-wide asylum reform could be agreed before he unilaterally imposed new border controls at Germany's borders.
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More News On Germany's Political Crisis Over Migrants
Merkel gets two-week deadline for talks with other European nations -- France 24
Merkel's Government Avoids Collapse Over Migrant Battle, at Least for Now -- The Wall Street Journal
Germany's Merkel given ultimatum by interior minister over migration policy -- CNN
Germany: Interior minister gives Merkel ultimatum on migrants -- Al Jazeera
Angela Merkel Is Fighting for Her Political Life. Here's What to Know -- Billy Perrigo, Time
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GERMANY HAS LOWEST CRIME RATE SINCE 1992
In Bavaria sexcrimes increased with 48% in the first 6 month 2017. Just shows that the old saying there are 3 types of lies:statistics, statistics and outright lies, still holds true.
You can prove almost anything with statistics. That is the first thing they learn you when you study the subject at university.
And do there is no trality only that which one wants to believe?
sorry: meant to say Reality...the news is fake and stats are also fake so how do we truly know what this article states is also not fake?
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