Dramatic last-minute negotiations on the evening of July 2 between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, appeared to have headed off a potential collapse of Germany’s ruling coalition, but the knotty immigration problems Merkel and Seehofer sought to address are not going away.
Merkel and Seehofer agreed to set up transit stations on the German–Austrian border, where immigrants will be detained and any who have been previously accepted by another EU nation will be returned to that nation. Immigration into Germany would be curbed.
