BERLIN, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Horst Seehofer on Sunday night resigned from his posts as German interior minister and chairman of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), amid disputes with Chancellor Angela Merkel over asylum policy, reported Deutsche Presse Agentur.
Seehofer made the announcement in Munich in a CSU meeting on whether to accept Merkel's European solution on migration policy reached in a EU summit on Friday, according to the report.
CSU and Merkel-led Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the two long-time political allies, are in a dispute over Germany's asylum policy. Seehofer wants to turn back refugees already registered in other European Union (EU) member states, while Merkel opposes it and has been calling for a European solution.
Following a white-night, marathon talk at a summit, European leaders eventually reached a compromise on migration in the early hours of Friday.
According to summit conclusions, EU member states will, on a voluntary basis, set up so-called "controlled centers" to host and transfer migrants that landed on EU shores.
