Stymied in Moscow, unease in Berlin

Yesterday their football team was defeated in Moscow: Mexico 1, Germany 0.

Today the survivial of the Berlin government is on a knife-edge.

If the row between Angela Merkel's CDU and their sister party in Bavaria, the CSU is not settled today, then the government falls.

The CSU wants to abide by the Dublin Agreement re the entry of asyulm seekers ino the country. The CDU wants to solve the problem via the EU.

Later this year there are state elections in Bavaria and it is most likely that the right-wing AfD will cross the five per cent hurdle and enter the parliament in Munich, which means the CSU will lose its overall majority.

The CSU is playing a right-wing card to keep its voters from emigrating to the AfD.

And there is the continuing problems with BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen