German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel arrives with her deputy party leaders for the start of a two-day CDU party leadership meeting in Mainz, Germany January 8, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
BERLIN (Reuters) - A senior figure in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has proposed setting up "border centres" along the frontier with Austria to speed up the repatriation of those asylum seekers deemed unqualified to stay.
Julia Kloeckner, leader of Merkel's Christian Democrats in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, said she thought the chancellor's push for a European solution to a large influx of asylum seekers into Europe was still the right decision, adding that her proposal was meant to "complement it".
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