German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the Christian Social Union (CSU) party congress in Munich, Germany November 20, 2015. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
BERLIN (Reuters) - The parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government exchanged insults at the weekend in an escalating clash over refugee policy that has left the German leader looking more vulnerable than at any time during her decade in power.
Divisions between her conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) over benefits for refugees prompted coalition leaders to cancel a special cabinet meeting planned for Monday where they had hoped to agree measures to speed up the processing of asylum seekers.
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