GERMANY’S attempts to create a multicultural society in which people from various cultural backgrounds live together peacefully have failed, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

GERMANY’S President celebrated the country’s new-found national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification yesterday.

ROMA, gypsies, Muslims and gays promise to divert some of the attention from Europe’s see-sawing economic predicament this autumn.

German top government officials and immigrant leaders today condemned remarks by a board member of Germany’s federal bank as racist and anti-Semitic.