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Focus: Muslims in Europe

October 18, 2010

Integration debates have flared up across Europe in recent months. Muslim immigrants have transformed the continent, but many countries are still struggling to successfully integrate a different culture and religion.

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Integration debates have flared up across Europe in recent months. Muslim immigrants have transformed the continent, but many countries are still struggling to successfully integrate a different culture and religion.
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Gut ausgebildete Türken gehen vermehrt wieder zurück in die Türkei

#One of the concerns opponents of Islamic immigration point to is the deep difference in birthrates between Germans and the country's Muslim communities and what that means for future demographics. But in terms of immigration itself - government statistics show that some 8,000 more Turks returned to their homeland last year than arrived in Germany from Turkey. Many of those returning to Turkey are highly trained.
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Angela Merkel and Horst Seehofer

Integration debate

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A Turkish woman writing on a blackboard

Integration debate

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