Germany Averts Political Crisis As Ruling Coalition Reaches Migration Deal
(World News Austria)

Germany`s three-party coalition reached an agreement on a key migration policy Thursday night, ending, for now, a dispute that had threatened to bring down the government, CNN reports. The announcement came four days after Chancellor Angela Merkel and her more conservative Interior Minister Horst Seehofer reached a deal on how to handle asylum seekers arriving at Germany`s southern border with Austria who are already registered elsewhere in the EU. Under EU law, those people should be returned to the first EU country they entered, but that is not always possible in practice. The agreement announced Thursday between the governing CDU, its more conservative sister party the CSU, led by...