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The Transformation of Germany (Credit Image: © Wolfgang Kumm/DPA via ZUMA Press) “The people are everyone who lives in this country.” Chancellor Angela Merkel, February 2017 “We’ve been arguing for too long whether our country is a country of immigration. The fact is that immigration is taking place because we’ve asked people time and again to come. . . . And yet, simply recognizing that we are a country of immigration is not enough. Action has to be taken by the state, which has the responsibility to organize society so that we can live together.” President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, August 2018 Demographics In 2015, 2.1 million immigrants came to Germany, most of them young men from Syria, Kosovo, Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, and North Africa. According to official sources, by July 2020, the Federal Republic of Germany had 11.23 million foreign-passport holders: 12.5 percent of its population. In addition, according to Statista, more than 11 million German pas

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