“How the individual components are weighted will have to be seen,” Merkel said. “We’re going to have to keep discussing that.”Her comments come almost a year after Merkel’s decision to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants stuck in other European countries to come to Germany. Weise told German weekly Bild am Sonntag that his agency is planning for between 250,000 and 300,000 new arrivals this year. The influx prompted countries such as Hungary to sharply criticize Merkel, and even accuse her of threatening Europe’s stability. In her interview Sunday, Merkel declined to be drawn on whether she would run again, or even when she might announce her intention to stand again.

Source: thestar August 28, 2016 21:33 UTC