Talks between the German government and the opposition conservatives over the tightening of asylum and migration policy in the wake of a deadly mass stabbing by a rejected asylum seeker ended without agreement on Tuesday. Opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared the talks had failed due to the refusal of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left coalition to carry out comprehensive rejections of asylum seekers at Germany’s borders – the key demand of his Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU). “This means that the attempt to find a common path has…