Merkel’s Fate May Be Decided At Today’s Emergency EU Meeting
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sun, 06/24/2018
Embattled German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing a series of crunchtime events in the coming week ahead of the July 1 expiration of the ultimatum handed to her by her coalition partner, the CSU, seeking a resolution to major disagreements over German refugee policy, and today’s emergency gathering in Brussels may well set the stage for Merkel’s eventual downfall.
European leaders gathered today in the Belgian capital for an informal meeting convened by the president of the bloc’s executive arm, Jean-Claude Juncker, and aimed at paving the way to a deal on the management of migration, amid what Bloomberg described as “an escalating crisis that threatens to unravel the bloc’s passport-free travel area and dissolve Germany’s governing coalition.”
While there are numerous conflicting priorities, the underlying agenda behind today’s meeting for most European nations is simple: how to curb immigration and either reduce the number of refugees currently present, or otherwise, slowdown the arrival of new refugees, the two direct consequences of Merkel’s “open door” immigration policy spawned in 2015 at the peak of the Syrian refugee crisis, which ushered in more than 1.6 million migrants – mostly from Syria – in Germany and countless others across Europe, all the while preserving the image of a enlightened progressivism.
To be sure, the stakes are great not only for Merkel: with Europe’s economy, public finances and unemployment relatively stable, immigration has emerged as the top concern for EU citizens.
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