Eleven migrants including six children drown off Greece

The CSU, sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has been outspoken about her “open doors” policy towards refugees, in part because its home state of Bavaria is the entry point for virtually all of the migrants arriving in Germany.”I don’t want to it to happen that military conflict is once again necessary there”, Mrs. Merkel said, adding that while she didn’t want to be a harbinger of doom, escalations into violence can happen without warning. “That’s why I’m looking at it the other way around”.A few in the CSU want to tighten or even close Germany’s borders.The vast majority of the up to one million people arriving in the country this year are crossing the border from Austria into Bavaria.

Eleven migrants including six children drown off GreeceShe failed over the weekend to win over Gabriel’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD), junior partner in her coalition, and the row has not only rocked her government, but also provoked rare criticism of her leadership both outside and within her conservative bloc.Merkel met a group of human rights lawyers, writers and bloggers at the German Embassy in Beijing on Thursday evening, a government official said on the condition of anonymity because the meetings were private.”If we think too small, if we think only about what regards us, then this will be a huge challenge for Europe”, Ms Merkel told an audience of local business leaders at an industry summit.The two conservative leaders fashioned a deal on Sunday that would create transit zones where asylum seekers could be held outside Germany while their application was processed – a long-standing demand of Seehofer’s. Despite falling poll numbers and a rebellion within her coalition, Mrs Merkel is not backing down from her open-door policy.Sigmar Gabriel, SPD leader and Germany’s vice chancellor, has criticized the Bavarian proposal as unworkable, saying it would amount to housing tens of thousands of people in football stadium-like situations on the German border.Merkel and Seehofer in Berlin on Tuesday.Mrs Merkel said it was Germany’s responsibility as the EU’s largest member to find a united European solution to the refugee crisis.Other countries along the migration route, however, are not interested in slowing the flow, out of fear that the migrants would remain.