German conservatives hope flexible refugee goal will end row

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Bavarian allies on Thursday floated the idea of a flexible target for how many asylum seekers Germany should accept each year as a compromise to end a row between them over immigration. The proposed compromise reflects worries among both the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union (CSU) and Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) that divisions over a refugee cap, which Merkel has rejected, would harm them at the ballot box. "The proposal envisag