Saturday June 30, 2018
Angela Merkel has saved her political skin with an EU deal that enables Germany to send migrants back to Spain and Greece - three years after she forced Europe to open its doors to refugees.The German Chancellor had been given an ultimatum from her hardline coalition partners to find a Europe-wide solution to the migrant crisis - or risk seeing her government fall apart. But the 63-year-old emerged this morning after nine hours of 'toxic' negotiations to reveal a 'joint text' which included moves to stop migrants registered in Italy and other EU countries from moving on to Germany.She said that Greece and Spain had now agreed to take back in future migrants previously registered in those countries who are picked up at the German-Austrian border. This arrangement does not include Italy, it has emerged.