MERKEL facing "populist"/nationalist threat over refugee immigration

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-17/merkel-fate-hangs-in-balance-as-csu-is-said-to-hand-her-deadline

Merkel Fate Hangs in Balance as CSU Sets Deadline

By Brian Parkin
June 17, 2018
* CSU leader reportedly says he can’t work with Merkel any more
* CDU seeking compromise via EU partners, says key Merkel ally


Germany’s Christian Social Union party will give Chancellor Angela Merkel a two-week deadline to meet its demands for overhauling asylum policy, the Bild Zeitung reported, in what would mark an unprecedented challenge to her authority that risks plunging the nation into chaos. ....

Possible Compromise

A key Merkel ally outlined a possible compromise to defuse the situation. The two coalition partners “are of the same mind that those who have claimed asylum elsewhere shouldn’t enter” Germany, said CDU Secretary-General Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.

Merkel is urging EU partners to give states more power to turn away refugees, averting a go-it-alone approach demanded by the CSU, she said in a Bild am Sonntag newspaper interview published Sunday. This is a “functional” solution, according to Kramp-Karrenbauer, that would avert a possible breakup in the governing coalition. ....

Europe’s migration crisis is not just being played out it Germany. Italy, run by a populist coalition, has started to turn away ships carrying refugees. ....

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[sunonmars]

1. From what I've heard and read here in Europe is she may be gone within days, played this all wrong.

[UTUSN]

2. oh good grief

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Smells of Putin

interference.