the standoff pits chancellor merkel against her interior minister horst zee hoffa who is also a leading figure and various conservative c.s.u. party zero five and his party are challenging merkel even though they are part of the national governing coalition in berlin z. hoffa wants germany to turn away refugees at the border if they have already applied for asylum in another european country but merkel does not want germany to go it alone and is pushing instead for a european solution to the crisis. z. hole for however says he has lost faith in the e.u. civility to act and is threatening to move unilaterally if merkel and see whole fail to resolve their differences the alliance between the two parties could on ravel and lead to the collapse of the government. when as you said melinda we do believe that there is a search for a compromise under way this weekend that said it didn't stop matthew from making her position clear did it tell us more well yes in a matter of speaking but she didn't simply go on t.v. and said hey i'm not standing down what she did as she very subtly wove the topic