Angela Merkel: No quick fix in refugee crisis

Europe’s refugee crisis can only be solved “step by step” with EU nations and Turkey working together, German chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday, dismissing the latest jab from a prominent domestic critic.

Merkel’s comments came after Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer, who for weeks has called her decision last month to let in migrants from Hungary a mistake, called for action this week from the national government in Berlin to reduce the migrant influx.

He also urged her to complain to neighbouring Austria about the uncoordinated flow of new arrivals it is sending to his region.