: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Merkel Urges Germans to Welcome Refugees, Spurn Racism


Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to turn their backs on a growing grassroots movement of anti-Muslim protesters, calling them racists full of hatred, and said Europe’s biggest economy must welcome people fleeing conflict and war.

In an unusually strongly worded New Year address that also condemned Russia for its actions in Ukraine, Merkel said it was essential for Germany to help the children of persecuted people to grow up without fear.

Many Germans are worried about a flood of asylum-seekers, many from Syria, pouring into the country. A new movement, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA), is holding weekly …read more

Source: Voice of America

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