Tag: migration policy

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Merkel accepts radical changes to her coalition migration policy

  

  Chancellor Angela Merkel, who staked her legacy on welcoming hundreds of thousands of migrants into Germany, agreed on Monday to build border camps for asylum seekers and to tighten the border with Austria in a political deal to save her government.

• Monday, July 2nd 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Merkel's coalition on the cliff over differences on migration policy with her Bavarian allies

  

  The resolution to Germany's government crisis proved elusive on Sunday after the head of the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union in Angela Merkel's conservative bloc offered his resignation rather than back down from his stance against the chancellor's migration policies.