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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has forcefully rejected ethno-nationalist views, stressing that Germany's constitution recognizes no "first- or second-class citizens" and that the German people include those who have joined the country and become Germans.

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on immigrants: There are no first-class or second-class citizens. Our constitution does not define the German people as an ethnic community of descent. It recognizes no "national community" of the same blood, nor citizenship privileges for so-called "bio-Germans." The German people, in the sense of our constitution, also includes Germans who joined us later.

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