Defiant Merkel backs Europe migrant policy as Bavaria row simmers

The row is over Merkel's rejection of plans by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, from Bavaria, for Germany unilaterally to send back migrants who have registered in other European Union countries.

A migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees after registration at Berlin's Spandau district, Germany September 10, 2015

(photo credit: REUTERS/FABRIZIO BENSCH)

ByREUTERS

JUNE 16, 2018 18:43

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