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FRANKFURT, Feb 28 German
Chancellor Angela Merkel on
Sunday defended her open-door
policy for migrants, rejecting any
limit on the number of refugees
allowed into her country despite
divisions within her government.
Merkel said there was no 'Plan B'
for her aim of reducing the flow
of migrants through cooperation
with Turkey, efforts she said
could unravel were Germany to
cap the number of refugees it
accepts.
"Sometimes, I also despair. Some
things go too slow. There are
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many conflicting interests in
Europe," Merkel told state
broadcaster ARD. "But it is my
damn duty to do everything I can
so that Europe finds a collective
way."
Merkel spelled out her
motivation to keep Germany's
borders open without limits on
refugees, a goal many in her own
country and coalition
government openly disagree
with.
"There is so much violence and
hardship on our doorstep," she
said. "What's right for Germany