German interior minister resigns in migration showdown with Merkel: party sources

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AFP Frankfurt Am Main
Last Updated : Jul 02 2018 | 2:40 AM IST

Germany's Interior Minister Horst Seehofer will resign both his office and his position as head of the hardline conservative Bavarian CSU party after a weeks-long confrontation with Chancellor Angela Merkel over migration, party sources told AFP yesterday.

July 1 was a self-imposed deadline for Seehofer to either accept Merkel's agreements with other European Union countries to reduce immigration or to defy her by starting to turn away at the border asylum seekers already registered elsewhere.

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First Published: Jul 02 2018 | 2:40 AM IST

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