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Post-quake investigation in Italy starts with contracts
At the same time, she said that she used the phrase with “deep conviction… and with the awareness that we were dealing with a hard and big task”.
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Germany registered over a million newcomers past year, though the actual number is believed to be lower, and the influx has unsettled many residents.
Merkel, who has faced criticism in Germany for launching her policies of welcoming refugees a year ago, also told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung that Germany and the European Union will need patience and endurance in dealing with migration of people to Europe.
Other EU leaders have also blamed Merkel’s policies for acting as a pull factor for refugees.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Italian Premier Matteo Renzi pat Leo, the black Labrador retriever who helped pull out 4-year-old Giorgia Rinaldo from under the rubble of the town of Pescara del Tronto following an quake that ravaged central Italy on Wednesday Aug. 24, 2016, in Maranello, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.
“It is important that we make deals with the countries of origin”, Ms Merkel said, giving the example of the deal struck between Italy, France and Germany and Mali and Niger to promote economic growth in the sub-saharan countries.
A year ago to the day, in a press conference that would be a turning point in the migrant crisis, Mrs Merkel announced that Germany would rise to the challenge of the unprecedented numbers flooding into Europe. In Würzburg, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee attacked a family on a train with an axe.
German media later reported that both had been in contact with members of Isis.
The three-term chancellor said refugees will be a long-term issue.
“It’s simply incorrect to say that terrorism came only with the refugees”, she said. “It was already here, especially with the suspected terrorists that we have been monitoring”, she said.
A number of Germans had always had a certain racism toward foreigners and were willing to commit violent acts for that cause, but that tendency had grown over the past year, she said. “Germany will remain Germany, with everything that is dear to us”.
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“These are reflected in our liberality, our democracy, our constitutional state, and in our overwhelming commitment to a social market economy, through which our economic strength can absorb those who are weakest”.