Minister Markus Söder has said it is 'impossible' to integrate refugees from different backgrounds

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Bavaria’s finance minister, Markus Söder, said the German people “do not want a multicultural society” and recommended they should be sent back over the next three years.

More than one million refugees have arrived in Germany over the past year, sparking backlash among critics of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy.

Many migrants have been re-settled in the minister’s state in the south of the country.