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Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11559451
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Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at "the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country."
She added: "We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone', but this isn't reality."
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In her speech in Potsdam, however, the chancellor made clear that immigrants were welcome in Germany.
She specifically referred to recent comments by German President Christian Wulff who said that Islam was "part of Germany", like Christianity and Judaism.
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This appears to be a re-occuring theme in western Europe recently. Prehaps the idea of a 'Big Society' doesn't work after all.