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Merkel Rejects Refugee Limit for Germany

Merkel Rejects Refugee Limit for Germany
Merkel Rejects Refugee Limit for Germany

The German chancellor has rejected calls from her sister party to limit the number of refugees entering Germany. In a wide-ranging interview she defended the G20 summit in Hamburg and spending on infrastructure.

Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to place an upper limit on refugees that the country accepts, speaking in an annual interview broadcast on Sunday, DW reported.

Distancing herself from the position of her conservative Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union , Merkel, who leads the Christian Democratic Union, said placing a limit on refugees was not the way forward.

“As far as an upper limit is concerned, my position is clear: I will not accept it,” she said, saying that numbers could be reduced by regulation and taking action to prevent the situations that cause people to flee one country for another.

That position places her in conflict with CSU leader Horst Seehofer who threatened not to enter into coalition without an annual upper limit for refugee numbers.

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