Regarding migration, Merkel calls on the European ideals of Bavarian allies

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BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated that on the migrations she had brought back from Brussels should be enough to satisfy her restive Bavarian allies, who were meeting Nine months after the elections which saw her losing votes on the far right, a weakened Merkel was forced to turn to the neighbors of the European Union. to help resolve a conflict with his allies after they rebelled against his immigration policy.

The leader of the party, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, threatened to expel migrants from the Bavarian border.

At a summit in Brussels this week, leaders reached an agreement to voluntarily share refugees and create "controlled centers" in the European Union to process asylum applications.

In an interview with ZDF television Ms. Merkel stated that the formal agreements and verbal commitments she had obtained from her EU partners would have had the effect of containment migrations that CSU wanted to achieve, but in a more European way.

"The sum of all that we have agreed is equivalent to what the CSU wants – it's my personal point of view, but the CSU must decide for itself."

"It is also durable and in line with the European ideal.Europe is slow, and we are not yet where we want to be … In my opinion, there is no need for it. Europe will be in solidarity, otherwise freedom of movement could have been in danger, "she added.

A document distributed by Merkel to the coalition Friday night, allies described repatriation agreements with 16 countries and proposed reception centers in Germany where migrants would be subject to accelerated asylum procedure – measures that represent a significant tightening of their asylum policy in 2015. The Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, whose prime minister Viktor Orban has long sought to position himself as the sworn enemy of Merkel in the debate on immigration polarizing the continent, then declared to have signed no bilateral agreement on repatriation

. While they were arriving at their party headquarters in Munich to discuss Merkel's affairs, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder took into account the October regional elections he faces. "This is absolutely in the right direction," he said, adding however that he would maintain the pressure to get more clarity on the details. 19659009] While most analysts expect Merkel to survive the confrontation with CSU, it is unlikely to be the last chance for the brother party to distance itself from a Chancellor that He considers himself too centrist for his own followers. Merkel told her coalition partners after the summit that 14 countries had agreed "politically" to take back some migrants who had crossed into other countries of the world. EU heading to Germany.

"I understand" Jacek Sasin, a senior official of the Polish government told public television Sunday

In the interview, Merkel said that she regretted any misunderstanding, but that she had "1965-19009" (Report of Andreas Cremer, Victoria Bryan and Tom Koerkemeier in Berlin and Agnieszka Barteczko in Warsaw, edited by Robin Pomeroy and Raissa Kasolowsky)