Merkel vows to end party ‘squabbles’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday it’s time for her coalition government to stop getting bogged down in internal squabbles, after its leaders reached a deal to resolve a major crisis.

Merkel said she regrets the handling of the latest dispute, over the future of Germany’s domestic intelligence chief, and called for the country’s biggest parties to move on from political infighting.

“It is all the more important that we now solve people’s problems,” she said. “In many areas we have been too preoccupied with ourselves in recent months. That must change.”