Angela Merkel finds herself in a pickle. The German chancellor has just performed a major course correction on the refugee issue. She now talks about "hundreds of thousands" of the people who arrived in 2015 having to reckon with returning to their home country.
The problem for Merkel? Her latest pronouncements are not just a course correction, but also an outright abandonment of her previous stance.
After all, she had been adamant about offering all comers a long-term perspective of staying in Germany.