(Reuters) Hungary’s anti-migrant Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday signalled his willingness to strike a bilateral deal with Chancellor Angela Merkel to limit the arrival of asylum seekers in Germany and other European countries.
Merkel needs the backing of both her junior Social Democrats coalition partner and fellow European Union states if a disputed migration plan agreed with her Bavarian allies is to succeed.
Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their long-time Bavarian Christian Social Union allies agreed on Monday to set up special transit centres at the border with Austria where migrants already registered in other EU countries will be held and then sent back to the countries where they had registered first.
