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A Compromise On Migration Keeps Germany's Merkel In Power

A Compromise On Migration Keeps Germany's Merkel In Power

Under the deal, migrants registered in other European Union countries will be held in transit centers as Germany negotiates their return. The country's rebellious interior minister had threatened to quit and pull his party from Angela Merkel's coalition government if the German chancellor did not take a harder line on asylum seekers.

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