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Ten years ago on 31 August 2015, Angela Merkel told the German press what she was going to do about the swell of Syrian refugees heading to Europe. With the three fateful words ‘Wir schaffen das’ – ‘We can handle it’ – she ushered in a new era of uncontrolled mass migration, not just for
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