The German crisis has for now only been postponed to the Fourth of July: German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, who during the night threatened to resign both from the ministry and from his role as secretary of the CSU, has extended an olive branch to Chancellor Angela Merkel to seek a common solution and maintain the alliance of the Grand Coalition, which has been in government for just four months after the six months of negotiations following the elections.
Subject of dispute the question of migrants: Seehofer considered insufficient the results obtained by Merkel during the last European council on secondary movements, a topic very dear to Germany. The Bavarian hawk insisted on the need for immediate pushbacks at the border, an issue on which the chancellor has not reached an agreement with the other countries.
Angela Merkel made it known that the time was not yet ripe for an agreement with Rome on migrants, but that dialogue remains open: "for now it was not possible, the Italian prime minister explained that Italy felt left in the lurch for many, for years”.
A meeting between the CDU and CSU is scheduled for the afternoon to avoid a split within the Grand Coalition and, Dpa reports, the president of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Schaeuble, is also together with Merkel and Seehofer, who will try to mediate between the two locations.
"The stability of the government is not in question, and the end of the joint parliamentary group is not the right path either," said Bavarian president Markus Söder. “We believe that there is a need for more border security. We are ready to compromise, as one must be in politics”, assured Söder, trying to mend the rift.
The Christian Democrats have made it known that they espouse Angela Merkel's European line, stating that unilateral rejections of migrants would not be the right solution: furthermore, according to polls, 65% of the population claims to be on the chancellor's side.
Seehofer's intransigent policy is part of the electoral strategy in view of the elections in Bavaria next October, the deadline by which the German interior minister will have to recover the votes lost on the right in favor of the extremist party AfD.
