Cracks Emerge Between 'Traffic Light' Partners On Polish Border Issues

Tom Nuttall at the Economist tweets: "Acc to The Pioneer the Belarus migrant drama has spilled into Germany's coalition talks: the Greens reject border pushbacks; the FDP wants to turn Frontex into a "robust police force". This eve the 22 working groups pass their work to party leaders to write a coalition deal."

• Coalition talks are ongoing between the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens, and pro-business liberal Free Democrats (FDP). As part of the talks the parties established 22 working groups to focus on specific policy areas and find landing zones of agreement.
• The current situation on the Polish-Belarusian border is exposing some fairly clear divisions between the two smaller parties in the tripartite 'traffic light' coalition. As such, the effort to write a full coalition deal could prove difficult in the short term if the Greens and FDP cannot find some common ground on what should be done to remedy the situation to the east.