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German Unrest Expected to Bring Tightening of Law on Immigration
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Political shock waves from Rostock, where racist demonstrators besieged and burned a hostel housing foreign asylum-seekers last week, have jolted German politicians into actions that may transform the country’s political landscape. Politicians of all parties now predict, for the first time, that Germany will soon tighten its immigration law, which is the most permissive in Europe. The outburst in Rostock in eastern Germany has also been seen by some politicians as another in a series of unforeseen pitfalls of German unification, which is nearing its second anniversary. They say that conditions of life in eastern cities like Rostock contributed to the violence and that by some standards, those conditions are worse now than in Communist days. More : query.nytimes.com |
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