‘Restrict migrant numbers; no place for Turkey in EU’ – Bavarian conservative leader

‘The Bavarian CSU’s Horst Seehofer, the influential leader of Angela Merkel’s coalition partners, has hit out at Berlin’s policies at a party conference to which the Chancellor was not invited. Seehofer spoke for a cap on refugee numbers and against Turkey’s EU integration.
“I will not sell the soul of the CSU on the issue of immigration, I will not accept a bad compromise,” Seehofer said to boisterous applause during a 90-minute speech at a crowded hall in Munich.
“Only with a cap of 200,000 newcomers per year can their integration be guaranteed. We also have to look at the causes that push them away from their homelands,” said the politician, contradicting official government policy.’
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