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BERLIN, July 2-- 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. "A really good compromise after a hard struggle," Merkel told reporters after the meeting, saying it is exactly the spirit of partnership in EU and at the same time a decisive step to control secondary migration. According to a paper of the agreement distributed by CSU politician Minister of State for Digitization Dorothee Baer, the two parties agreed to introduce new border regime on the border between Germany and Austria, in a bid to prevent asylum seekers registered in other EU states from entering Germany. The two parties will also establish transit centers to send asylum seekers directly to the responsible countries, according to the paper. | 
