Angela Merkel is sticking to her policy on refugees despite disaster results in Germany’s regional elections in which the country’s nationalist party saw a significant rise in support.
Ms Merkel’s ruling conservatives suffered embarrassing losses to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, AfD, which powered into three state legislatures on Sunday.
The party has campaigned against Ms Merkel’s open-borders approach and managed to both steal votes from established parties and attract people who had previously not voted, indicating the German electorate is uneasy about the Chancellor’s policies.
But on Monday Ms Merkel insisted a European solution needed to be found to the crisis.
“I am firmly convinced, and that wasn’t questioned today, that we need a European solution and that this solution needs time,” she said.
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