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German Chancellor Angela Merkel may need to brace for a constitutional challenge, as the southern German state of Bavaria threatened in the refugee crisis with a complaint at Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Friday in Munich after a meeting of the cabinet. "If the federal government does not soon take effective measures in order to limit the further influx of asylum seekers and thereby impair national legal capacity of states, Bavaria reserves the right to use legal procedures at Germany's Read more [...]

The Chancellor said that as head of a Christian party she refused to take part in a “competition” to discover “those who are the most unfriendly to refugees, will stop them coming in”. Seehofer told Bild newspaper that the meeting would examine how to integrate refugees. Seehofer stopped short of a previous threat to close Bavaria’s borders – which as the state’s minister-president he does not have the legal power to do – while saying if the government did not act to improve Read more [...]