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Chancellor Merkel faced stern criticism from German officials after her open door refugee policy saw up to a million people enter the country in 2015.

Now a study by the country’s Bertelsmann Foundation has claimed the majority of Germans feel their nation is unable to cope with any further increases in immigration.

The study shows a huge surge in opposition to allowing more refugees to enter Germany – rising from 40 per cent in 2015 to 54 per cent.

But the vast majority of Germans still said they felt immigrants and refugees currently inside the European superpower’s borders were “very welcome, or quite welcome”.