The leader of the main opposition party in Germany, the Christian Democrats, has said that multiculturalism is failing.
Speaking at the party's annual conference on Monday (6 December) in Düsseldorf, Angela Merkel criticised her country's attempts to promote multiculturalism saying, "the idea of a multicultural society cannot succeed".
"It is condemned to fail from the outset. Multiculturalism is not integration", she said.
The CDU leader added that the idea of a multicultur...
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