Who is a German?
The threat of massive immigration into Western Europe has receded, but not the fear of it. In two articles we look at how Germany is balancing discouragement with welcome and at how Europe’s immigrants are faring
AN ITALIAN navy corvette collides with a boat crammed with Albanian refugees, killing at least 80 of them. A chartered aircraft plucks dozens of Bosnians from the German state of Bavaria and deposits them, against their will, in the country from which they fled. Six Turkish immigrants die in a fire in The Hague, the Netherlands' capital; arson is suspected.
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