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This latest survey has shown Merkel’s support among voters in the Czech Republic has slipped to 18 per cent from a level of 70 per cent last year as the chancellor visits Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and President Milos Zeman in Prague to discuss the migrant crisis.

Czechs are put off by the 62-year-old’s “welcome policy” towards migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, according to the poll by German newspaper Die Welt.