Germany will limit the number of asylum seeker arrivals to around 200,000 annually under a draft coalition agreement sealed yesterday in marathon talks between the country's two largest parties, The Globe Post website reports today (January 13, 2018).
"We determine that the number of new arrivals... should not exceed the range of 180,000 to 220,000 per year," states a copy of the document agreed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the Social Democrats.
Merkel had long resisted a strict upper limit on asylum seekers coming to Europe's top economy, as demanded by her CDU's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union. (Merkel's decision to let more than one million refugees into Germany since 2015 has deeply divided the country.)
After winning an election with a reduced majority in September, Merkel agreed to a soft cap on Germany's refugee intake in a bid to silence bitter squabbling within her conservative camp.
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