Merkel says Germany will fight terrorism side-by-side with France

“We need a fair burden sharing, that’s totally clear”, she said, adding that the decision to reapply the Dublin rules would be a step that would help to reach that goal in the medium turn.

But the horrific events in Paris took over the program. But there was no coordinated strategy for the 28 members of the European Union. It was a fraction of the total migrant population, and the agreement was achieved only under intense pressure from Germany.

For now, the Paris attacks appear to have given the German leader a short grace period to order affairs on refugees. In comments online, Szymanski said Poland must have “full control” of its borders and migration policy.

Sensitive to the growing misgivings among many Germans about how their country can cope with the sheer number of immigrants, the government recently agreed on measures to quickly process those who stand little chance of getting asylum, vetting more people at the border, and distributing migrants across Europe.

Poland’s determination to scuttle the pact may spread, dooming it even as investigators in Paris are still trying to establish the identities and backgrounds of the assailants who killed at least 129 people Friday.

“But I make the urgent plea, as interior minister and as a responsible politician of this country, that there shouldn’t be any hasty links made to the refugee debate”, he added. “Family reunion as it has been understood until now can not currently take place”, the German government’s official spokesman said on Tuesday.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on a social media account but didn’t provide specific information that would allow the claim to be verified.

Fears have been regularly stoked by reports that IS operatives could be hiding among the 800,000 migrants who have arrived this year, mostly on the shores of Greece and Italy.

Countries bordering France, including Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, announced restrictions on traffic and advised their citizens against visiting Paris. “At the sorrowful moment of the French people, I, on behalf of the Chinese government and the Chinese people, and personally, condemn in the strongest terms the barbaric acts”, Xi said in a message of condolences to his French counterpart Francois Hollande. “We have nothing at all to do with the right-wing boneheads”, he said.

“That would be hugely damning for the entire debate on this topic”, said Reinoud Leenders, a professor of worldwide politics and Middle East studies at King’s College London Department of War Studies. “The throat cutters and Islamic terrorists should be ELIMINATED with force!”

Still, there’s no sign of any direct attack on Merkel’s position, and she has a long record of patiently working through crises.

“Whatever the European Union may say, it is essential that France recover the control of its national borders, once and for all”, she said.

A Syrian passport found next to by the mangled body of a suicide bomber in the bloody aftermath of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris has fueled anti-migrant sentiment in Europe and confronted the sad tide of refugees fleeing war with new obstacles and suspicion.

“Let us give this answer to the terrorists by living our values with confidence, by reaffirming these values for all of Europe, now more than ever”, she said, telling France, “we cry with you”. Until recently Angela Merkel, the bloc’s undisputed overseer, seemed unassailable even after a decade at the top.

The refugee crisis had already strained this system to breaking point, with a host of countries including Germany and Sweden re-imposing border controls while Austria, Hungary and others are building border fences. She also needs to reconcile the interests of a governing coalition of right and left.