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There has been “some movement” in recent days over Germany’s asylum policy, but not enough, as the large number of asylum seekers now poses a national security threat, the leader of the conservative opposition in the German parliament said. “Too many refugees are coming to Germany who should actually be applying for asylum in other countries,” Friedrich Merz, the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), wrote in his weekly newsletter to party supporters, which the Funke Media Group of newspapers published on Saturday. Measures announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the centre-left Social …

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