The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has held a meeting with the country’s opposition leader to discuss how to change immigration policy and increase deportations, after a deadly knife attack on Friday linked to Islamic State.
Described as the “Solingen Summit” by the media, after the attack in the western city of Solingen, in which a Syrian who had applied for asylum in Germany is alleged to have killed three and injured eight people, details of the meeting between Scholz and the leader of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), Friedrich Merz, held in Berlin were not made public. Merz is due to hold a press conference later on Tuesday.
