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		</div><p>Hundreds of far-right protesters shouted abuse at Chancellor Angela Merkel as German leaders gathered in the eastern city of Dresden to celebrate the anniversary of the country&#8217;s reunification 26 years ago.</p>
<p>The protesters shouted &#8220;Merkel must go&#8221; and &#8220;traitor&#8221; as the Chancellor left the city&#8217;s Frauenkirche church after a morning ecumenical service. Ms Merkel has been harshly criticised in some quarters for her welcoming refugee policy, and Dresden has been a centre of the criticism.</p>
<p>Despite the tense mood, Ms Merkel called on Germans to enjoy unification day, which is a public holiday in the country, and to be grateful for the achievements of the last 26 years.</p>
<p>&#8220;For me personally, but also for most people in Germany, this is still a day of joy, a day of thankfulness,&#8221; said Ms Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany.</p>
<p>The Chancellor acknowledged there are &#8220;new tasks, new problems&#8221; in the country, and said it is important Germans respond &#8220;with mutual respect and acceptance of very different political views, and that we also find good solutions&#8221;.</p>
<p>Germany society has been polarised by the influx of some 890,000 asylum seekers last year. Although many fewer migrants have entered the country in 2016 &#8211; an estimated 210,000 people so far &#8211; parties on the far-right have called for an immigration cap.</p>
<p>Ms Merkel has repeatedly refused limiting the number of asylum seekers coming to Germany. In the face of heavy opposition against her migrant policy, she recently made it a priority to ensure that migrants who are not granted asylum in Germany be returned to their home countries more swiftly.</p>
<p>Dresden&#8217;s national unification celebrations took place amid tight security after two home-made explosive devices were set off outside a mosque and a conference centre in the city last week and three police cars were destroyed in an arson attack on Sunday.</p>
<p>Dresden, the state capital of Saxony, is home to the anti-Islam group Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West. Known by its German acronym Pegida, the group has become a magnet for far-right and anti-immigrant sentiment.</p>
<p>The German government published a report last month warning of an increase in racist and far-right attacks in eastern Germany, calling the violence &#8220;a big threat for the development of the society and economy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Germany was divided into a capitalist west and communist east after the end of the Second World War, only unifying on October 3, 1990.</p>
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