German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition has been unsteady over the past few weeks due to internal disputes about migration. But on July 5, the coalition avoided collapse when its members -- Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU); its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU); and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) -- agreed on a package of measures to reduce the number of migrants entering Germany. While the deal will temporarily end frictions within Merkel's government, it still requires cooperation from other countries, most notably Italy and Austria. And depending on the way the talks among Berlin, Vienna and Rome develop, the very future of the Schengen Agreement, which in 1995 eliminated border controls in Europe, could be at risk....
