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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on Saturday for willingness to compromise from all involved in next week’s cross-party talks on migration amid an increasingly heated atmosphere in the country. Steinmeier, whose role is largely ceremonial, said in Berlin that he was following the consultations between Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left government and the conservative opposition in the expectation of a common understanding between them. “I’m convinced that it is up to the parties of the democratic centre to work out solutions to questions that are causing concern to many people…

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