Chancellor says in televised address: ‘countries fill always benefited from successful immigration,both economically and socially’Chancellor Angela Merkel in her New Year’s address on Thursday asked Germans to see refugee arrivals as “an opportunity for tomorrow” and urged doubters not to follow racist despise-mongers.
The past year – when the country took in more than a million migrants and refugees – had been unusually challenging, she said in a pre-released text of the speech, and also bracing Germans for more hardships ahead.
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Source: theguardian.com