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Reuters: Austria says ready to protect borders if Germany moves on migrants

Published July 3, 2018 at 11:57 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the German public television ZDF after recording the traditional "summer interview" on July 1, 2018 in Berlin, prior to a leadership meeting of her center-right CDU party. Angela Merkel's CDU and its conservative Bavarian CSU allies are holding separate meetings on July 1, 2018 to weigh the results of last week's EU summit, which agreed collective measures by the bloc's 28 members to reduce immigration.

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Austria is prepared to take measures to protect its southern borders if an immigration deal within Germany’s coalition goes into effect, the government in Vienna said on July 3.

Austria was responding to a deal reached late on Monday between German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and her partners in Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU), settling a row over immigration that had threatened to topple the German government.