Merkel Challenged by Bavarian Call to Favor Christian Refugees
- CSU coalition party maintains pressure for border restrictions
- Bickering over refugee policy unabated as Merkel sticks it out
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Bavaria’s ruling party urged Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to give preference to Christian refugees, the latest salvo against her policy of declining to cap the number of asylum seekers allowed into Germany.
A draft resolution prepared for a meeting of the Christian Social Union’s leadership says countries need to make choices about whom they admit. “It’s not the migrants who get to make that decision,” according to the draft obtained by Bloomberg. “Going forward, the rule must be to give preference to migrants from western Christian culture.”