German opposition head Merz hails EU migration deal in Paris

German opposition head Friedrich Merz on Wednesday visited Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron.

Merz leads the conservative CDU, the main opposition to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition government.

He called for more work to strengthen the German-French partnership and hailed an EU deal to reform asylum policies.

He said that he and Macron agreed that “we need to do more to invigorate the spirit of German-French cooperation.”

Merz thanked Macron for what he called…