German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition parties described their row on migrant policy as very serious after four hours of crisis talks on Tuesday night failed to defuse a dispute that threatens to tear apart her three-month old government.
The row is over plans drawn up by Merkel’s interior minister Horst Seehofer, the head of Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), to send back migrants who have registered in other EU states at the German border.