{"id":166918,"date":"2018-06-13T23:01:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T03:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166918"},"modified":"2018-06-13T23:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T03:01:43","slug":"merkel-allies-heading-for-showdown-over-immigration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/13\/merkel-allies-heading-for-showdown-over-immigration-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel, allies heading for showdown over immigration policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Merkel insisted that she wants a \u201csolution for all of Europe\u201d rather than one that works only for some countries. (Laurence Chaperon \/ Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BERLIN -German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to be heading for a showdown with her conservative allies over a proposal to close the country’s borders to some refugees, with the two sides reportedly meeting for crisis talks in Berlin late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has proposed turning back refugees who already were registered in other European countries, as part of a lengthy \u201cmaster plan\u201d on curbing unauthorized immigration.<\/p>\n

Seehofer, who heads the Bavaria-only sister party to Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union, is under pressure to take a hard line ahead of Bavarian state elections this fall.<\/p>\n

Seehofer told reporters Wednesday that he wants an agreement this week, and backed Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s idea for an Italian-Austrian-German \u201caxis\u201d to tackle illegal migration.<\/p>\n

Both Austria and Italy have seen parties with strong anti-migrant policies come to power since 2015, when Europe experienced a sharp rise in the number of people seeking shelter from conflicts and economic hardship elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n

The chaotic influx and some countries’ harsh treatment of the migrants prompted Merkel to open Germany’s borders, a decision she has strongly defended as a necessary response to a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

Merkel insisted Wednesday that she wants a \u201csolution for all of Europe\u201d rather than one that works only for some countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis may sound like squaring the circle, but Europe needs to stick together,\u201d she said after a meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. \u201cIt’s very, very important to me that Germany doesn’t act unilaterally, but that everything is done in an orderly way, that it’s co-ordinated and underpinned by an agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The German leader added: \u201cFor me, the way we treat the migration problem is something of a litmus test for the future and cohesion of Europe, and the needs of every country need to be taken into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

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