By 2018, anti-immigrant politics had forced her to announce she will step down in 2021 – but not before she once again tries to shape the way migrants enter Europe. On Sunday, Ms. Merkel hosts a high-level summit in Berlin to end the civil war in Libya, a major conduit for migration. Last year, nearly 95,000 people crossed the Mediterranean from both Libya and Turkey. At the summit, Ms. Merkel will not only be balancing Europe’s competing views of migration. Ms. Merkel, like the EU, has been on a long learning curve about migration.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 15, 2020 19:52 UTC