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Merkel, to Survive, Agrees to Border Camps for Migrants

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel, who staked her legacy on welcoming hundreds of thousands of migrants into Germany, agreed on Monday to build border camps for asylum seekers and to tighten the border with Austria in a political deal to save her…

  • Katrin Bennhold and Melissa Eddy
  • The New York Times

It was a spectacular turnabout for a leader who has been seen as the standard-bearer of the liberal European order but who has come under intense pressure at home from the far right and from conservatives in her governing coalition over her migration…

Merkel sad in car 1a Omer Messinger Agence France Presse Getty ImagesAlthough the move to appease the…

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