Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz addresses a news conference after a joint Austrian and Bavarian cabinet meeting in Linz, Austria, June 20, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
LINZ, Austria (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will push at a meeting of European leaders this weekend for rapid action on migration, he said on Wednesday, threatening to go it alone on creating asylum centres outside the bloc in the event of months-long paralysis.
Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) on Monday gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel two weeks to get a deal with European allies on migration, temporarily defusing a spat between Merkel's Christian Democrats and their sister party that threatens to collapse the coalition government.
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