Merkel under fire from coalition ally over refugee policy

Berlin

THE leader of Germany's Christian Social Union told Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday that he would not join forces with her Christian Democrats - the CSU's coalition allies - at a key party congress unless she changed her open-door refugee policy.

In a fresh attack on the chancellor's pro-refugee policies that have cost the sister parties support, Bavaria state premier Horst Seehofer said her refusal to change course was only helping the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).