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    In Merkel's moment of crisis, a chance to seize middle ground on migration?

    Jun 27, 2018 4 minutes
    Nasser (l.) and Muhannad, asylum seekers from Syria, walk past a local farmer on their way to the grocery store on June 6, 2015, in Freyung, Germany. After passing through Eastern Europe, Muhannad and Nasser were caught by police on the German border where they were taken to an asylum center with fellow refugees and migrants.

    In a corner of Germany celebrated for its bucolic charm, this Bavarian town’s lack of rolling, pastoral fields, and half-timbered houses doesn’t exactly make it a tourist destination – that is unless you ask party officials of the ruling Christian Social Union (CSU).

    The governor repeatedly uses the phrase “asylum tourism” for the migrants who trekked through the province during the refugee crisis in 2015 . They continue to do so, even if at a fraction of their earlier pace. And now his party colleague, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, has floated a plan to close the border altogether.

    Such harder-line proposals have divided Germany’s government, with Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) calling

    ‘A kind of a 2015 trauma’A rallying call

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