Merkel Says Germany Must Step Up World Role in Refugee Crisis
Could Refugee Crisis Break Europe?
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that Germany will have to conduct foreign policy “much more actively” as it confronts a rapidly globalizing world in the form of its biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
“We’re experiencing something we’ve never experienced before -- that conflicts that appear to be far away suddenly are here on our doorstep,” Merkel told a meeting of her Christian Democratic Union in the western city of Darmstadt.