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With President Christian Wulff expected to announce soon the dismissal of central banker Thilo Sarrazin over inflammatory race and immigration comments, leading politicians called on Friday for a renewed integration debate.
Politicians on both sides of the fence said the integration of Germany's Muslim communities urgently needed to be addressed.
The chairman of the interior committee of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Bosbach of Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called for a "serious discussion to designate the progress and the problems of integration, without taboos."