In a statement on Friday the Bavarian government threatened to go to the German Constitutional Court to compel the federal government to impose a cap on asylum seekers.

According to an interview with Bild newspaper, Seehofer said the state would take “self-defense measures to limit migration“.

At a Friday news conference in Munich, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said if Berlin fails to better control Germany’s borders from a “mass influx” of migrants and asylum-seekers, Bavaria will introduce “defensive measures” to protect itself from them.

With refugee numbers rising, the German government comes under increasing pressure.

In the evening TV show, Merkel conceded that amid the current chaos no one knows the exact number of arrivals, but also delivered a reality check to those who want to shutter German borders. In August, the German government estimated that 800,000 refugees would arrive in the country.

Merkel has continued to defend her stance on the refugee crisis. And if Germany was not an immigration country, it didn’t need an immigration policy.

By 2019 more than 3,700 jobs are to be created in the fields of judiciary, police, administration and education to address a few of the administrative challenges posed by the incoming refugees and migrants.

You said that “we must accept the strategic influence of the Russians” in eastern Europe.

Germany does not face national elections until 2017, but next year will see crucial state polls – in Baden-Wurttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt in the spring, and in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin in the autumn.

Although in the same conservative parliamentary bloc, Seehofer is at loggerheads with Merkel on handling the refugee crisis as he insists that limits on numbers allowed into Germany are needed.

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Oosthuizen and Grace look like world beaters as they compiled the first two wins of the week for the international team. Their backs are against the wall – but the wall is still a ways from them. “You know, I don’t criticize them”.

Meanwhile, a right-wing party said it plans to lodge a legal complaint against Ms Merkel, accusing her of “people smuggling” for letting thousands of migrants into the country after they got stuck on the Hungarian border.

Talking to Turkey about more aid for refugee camps, she said in unusually blunt language, “is my damned duty”.

The Prime Minister has begun talks with the 27 other EU leaders, as well as the European Commission and the European Parliament, aimed at reaching radical new terms for Britain’s membership. “No one in German political life would have chosen for Britain’s European Union reform agenda to be put on the list of things to do this year”, Mr Hammond told a party at the German Ambassador’s residence in London to mark the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

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