A potential Eu-albania asylum deal could help keeps German chancellor Angela Merkel in power. Albania is reportedly open to hosting reception centres for individuals seeking asylum in the EU. The plan could help keep the embattled German chancellor in power and placate her hard-line interior minister horst seehofer. A possible deal with Albania could help ease tensions between Merkel and Seehofer. It would meet the interior minister's demand that asylum applications could be filed outside the EU, yet they would remain under the EU oversight. The German, vice chancellor is also headed to the middle east and it is interesting to note how things will pan out for the embattled leader.