German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has accused the European Union of adopting a patronizing stance in talks with eastern European members about the distribution of migrants. “The EU commission is often patronizing,” he told the newspaper. Merkel firmly rebuffed Seehofer last week, saying that Germany’s 4 million Muslims belonged to the country, as did their religion. Johannes Kahrs, a member of parliament and spokesman for the conservative wing of the SPD, accused Seehofer of using his new ministerial post to campaign for the CSU in Bavaria. “Building bridges and not digging trenches is the responsibility of all decent Germans,” he told the Handelsblatt newspaper.

Source: Egypt Independent March 18, 2018 03:56 UTC