After intense negotiations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Christian Social Union Party leader Horst Seehofer reached an agreement on the evening of July 2 that will satisfy Seehofer’s concerns about unchecked immigration into Germany.
Seehofer, who also serves as Germany’s interior minister, had threatened on the evening of July 1 to resign. If he did so and managed to take members of his party with him, that would have been the end of Merkel’s governing coalition and would also have ended the 70-year-old partnership between his party and Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
