Angela Merkel has reached a deal on migration with her rebellious interior minister, Horst Seehofer, defusing a bitter row that had threatened her government.
Both sides hammered out “a good compromise … after a difficult struggle”, Merkel said on Monday evening, adding that it involved setting up holding and processing centres for asylum seekers near German borders.
“We have reached an agreement after very intense negotiations,” Seehofer agreed, stressing that he intended to stay on in his cabinet post after earlier threatening to quit.
“We now have a clear agreement how to prevent illegal immigration across the Austrian-German border in future,” said Seehofer, whose Christian Social Union (CSU) party is the traditional Bavaria state ally of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.
He added that details would be released soon.
The agreement still requires the consent of Merkel’s other coalition partner, the centre-left Social Democrats, to become government policy.
Nonetheless, it suggested that Merkel – in power for over 12 years, and the EU’s longest serving leader – goes on to live another day after surviving the latest bruising challenge to her authority.
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