BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday the record refugee influx to Europe’s biggest economy will change the country, which was now seen by many abroad as a place of “hope.”

“What we are experiencing now is something that will occupy and change our country in coming years,” she said after 20,000 migrants arrived at the weekend alone.

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