Immigration is high on the agenda as Germany’s Angela Merkel holds crunch coalition talks with her Bavarian conservative sister party, the CSU.<br /><br />The CSU, led by Horst Seehofer, blame Merkel for the decision in 2015 to keep Germany’s borders open resulting in almost one million people arriving in the country that year. <br /><br />Unconfirmed reports say the two parties have agreed on the divisive issue of a refugee cap. If so, this would remove a hurdle to coalition talks with other parties. <br /><br />The CSU’s combative leader Seehofer is fighting for his political survival after a poor election performance which saw the party slump to just over 6 percent nationally from nearly 7.5 percent in 2013.<br /><br />A weakened Merkel, in power since 2005, aims to build a nationally untested coalition between her conservative bloc andthe pro-business Free Democrats and the environmentalist Greens who are far apart on issues from tax and energy toEurope.<br />
