Angela Merkel's Future in Doubt as She Faces Coup After Her Own Party Criticises Asylum Policies

She was on thin ice well before last night's Paris attacks.

I don't know if she can stay in office much longer.

At the Telegraph UK:

Angela Merkel’s political future is being questioned for the first time in Germany as divisions continue to grow in her government over her “open-door” refugee policy.

Guests on a popular television political talk show debated the possibility of a coup against the German chancellor from within her own party.

The discussion came as civil servants at the government refugee agency warned identity checks for Syrian asylum-seekers were ineffective and open to abuse by economic migrants and terrorists.

Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister, warned that Germany was facing an “avalanche” of refugees set off by a “careless skier”.

And Thomas de Maiziere, the interior minister, twice acted unilaterally to introduce stricter controls on Syrian asylum-seekers without informing Mrs Merkel...

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And earlier, at Der Spiegel, "The Lonely Chancellor: Merkel Under Fire as Refugee Crisis Worsens."