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# From the ‘No Shit Sherlock’ Files…
- URL: https://goodoil.news/from-the-no-shit-sherlock-files/
- Published: 2019-10-23T03:30:54.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-22T07:50:57.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Politics, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

> Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims.

> **“This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,”** Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin.

> Merkel faces pressure from within her CDU to take a tougher line on immigrants who don’t show a willingness to adapt to German society and her comments appeared intended to pacify her critics.  
>  
> [reuters.com/article/us-germany-merkel-immigration/merkel-says-german-multiculturalism-has-failed](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-merkel-immigration/merkel-says-german-multiculturalism-has-failed-idUSTRE69F1K320101016?ref=goodoil.news)