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“We don’t want Europe full of inadaptable immigrants who burn cars on the city outskirts" said the sentence which was then removed (Photo: wfbakker2)

Czech people's party lands in hot water over anti-immigration line

The Czech Christian Democrats’ campaign for the EU elections got off to a rocky start earlier this month after it included a controversial line about immigration in its party programme.

The centre-right party (KDU-CSL), pro-Europeans and part of the governing coalition, presented its programme for the elections with a traditional agenda: united Europe, social-market economy, care for families.

But it was the very last sentence of the short manifesto that brought the party into th...

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“We don’t want Europe full of inadaptable immigrants who burn cars on the city outskirts" said the sentence which was then removed (Photo: wfbakker2)

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