BERLIN, July 2 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Monday night have reached a compromise on their dispute over asylum policy.
Seehofer, who offered to resign as interior minister Sunday night, told reporters that he would also stay in office as he and Merkel's party have reached a clear agreement on how to prevent illegal migration in the future on the borders between Germany and Austria.
Seehofer, also leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), made the remarks after a hours-long meeting with the leadership of the sister party Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Merkel.
The two parties were in a dispute over the country's future migration and asylum policy, as Seehofer believed that the European solution reached in EU summit in Brussels last week could not satisfy his party's goal of taking hardened asylum policy.
