Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel said she would not budge on her refugee policy, despite the Islamist terror attacks in Würzburg and Ansbach that have sparked urgent calls for a government U-turn on immigration.
Yesterday, Ms Merkel repeated her phrase from a year ago — “We can do this” — and insisted that Germany could cope with the 1m migrants who crossed into the country last year, while fully integrating them into German society.
She dismissed a reporter’s suggestion that the phrase now seemed “thoughtless” in view of the jihadi attacks this month. “I never said it would be easy,” she said. “But I’m just as much as convinced now as I was then that we will cope . . . and we will live up to this historic task.”
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