Politico: Angela Merkel’s political near-death experience in Bavarian brawl - Since the Zombie Apocalypse numbers have gone down a bit, these border disputes are "largely academic" - Right, Politico, just keep telling yourself that --tma

BERLIN — After years of cautious sparring, Angela Merkel’s standoff with her party’s Bavarian partners over refugee policy escalated into a bare-knuckled brawl on Thursday, threatening both the stability of Germany’s grand coalition and the conservative bloc that has been the bedrock of its political establishment for decades.

Merkel’s refusal to endorse a plan by her Bavarian interior minister to turn back some refugees at the German border set the stage for a showdown that, barring a last-minute compromise, could bring down her government. ...

https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkels-battle-with-bavaria-refugees-migration-masterplan/