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Merkel Eases Migrant Row with Greece, Spain Accords

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06/29/18
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Germany sealed deals with Greece and Spain on Friday to take back migrants previously registered in those countries, in a crucial win for Chancellor Angela Merkel as she faced a weekend deadline to heal a deep rift within her fragile ruling coalition.

“Greece and Spain are prepared to accept asylum seekers who are in future identified by German authorities at the German-Austrian border and who have a Eurodac registration in those countries,” the German government said in a statement, referring to the E.U. asylum fingerprint database.

Meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, today in Brussels. Countries that support a European solution for immigration and the refugee crisis must find a framework for cooperation. #eucouncil pic.twitter.com/Moxg4QIDBU

— Alexis Tsipras (@tsipras_eu) June 29, 2018

The agreements were made at a crunch E.U. summit in Brussels dominated by the migration issue. They come as Merkel faces a threat by her hardline Interior Minister Horst Seehofer that unless she reaches E.U. deals allowing the return of many asylum seekers, he will shutter German borders to them by early July.

Asked whether she thought the accords with Athens and Madrid met Seehofer’s ultimatum requirements, Merkel told reporters in Brussels that she believed they even surpassed them.

“They are more than equivalent in their effect,” she said.

Seehofer is head of Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of Merkel’s Christian Democrats.

Any move toward closing the border between Bavaria and Austria would force Merkel to sack Seehofer and likely end the parties’ seven-decade alliance.

This has raised the spectre of an implosion of Merkel’s uneasy coalition government just 100 days after it took office, potentially ending the German leader’s 12-year tenure in power.

The German government said it would in the next four weeks clarify details of the agreements with Spain and Greece, whose implementation would then be “regularly assessed.”

Merkel is to meet with her conservative alliance over the weekend to inform them of the E.U. summit’s results, with announcements expected Sunday on how the two sides will proceed.

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