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After getting spanked in the German elections yesterday, Merkel is doubling down on refugees:
“BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday stuck to her refusal to close the country’s border to asylum applicants despite unprecedented gains by an anti-immigrant party in state elections over the weekend.
Ms. Merkel said she would instead continue to pursue a “European solution” to the migrant crisis that involved negotiating a deal between the European Union and Turkey to stem the flow of people crossing the Aegean Sea to Greece.
“I am firmly convinced—and this was not put in question today—that we need a European solution, and that this solution needs time,” Ms. Merkel said after meeting with top officials in her center-right Christian Democratic Union. …”