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Half of Germans agree with controversial remarks by federal bank board member Thilo Sarrazin, who said that most Arab and Turkish immigrants are "neither willing nor able to integrate," a poll revealed on Sunday.
Sarrazin, Berlin's former finance minister, said in a recent interview with the Lettre International magazine that "a great many Arabs and Turks in this city, whose numbers have grown because of the wrong policies, have no productive function other than as fruit and vegetable sellers."
The remarks raised the strong possibility that Sarrazin might have to resign his position on the Bundesbank board after the bank's president, Axel Weber, said the comments had caused "damage to the institution's reputation."