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| Germany interior minister drops threat to quit after deal on border controls | Germany interior minister drops threat to quit after deal on border controls |
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| Germany’s interior minister, Horst Seehofer, has dropped his threat to quit after hours of talks with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), saying the two conservative parties had agreed on the tightened border controls he was demanding. | |
| Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), had offered to step down from both his positions if the chancellor did not consent to controls she opposes that would involve turning some migrants back at Germany’s border with Austria. | Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), had offered to step down from both his positions if the chancellor did not consent to controls she opposes that would involve turning some migrants back at Germany’s border with Austria. |
| “After intensive discussions between the CDU and CSU, we have reached an agreement on how we can in future prevent illegal immigration on the border between Germany and Austria,” he told reporters on leaving the CDU’s Berlin headquarters. | “After intensive discussions between the CDU and CSU, we have reached an agreement on how we can in future prevent illegal immigration on the border between Germany and Austria,” he told reporters on leaving the CDU’s Berlin headquarters. |
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