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Angry campaigners held placards with slogans reading "Merkel not welcomed" and "Merkel must go" following a spate of terror attacks against Germany.

It comes just before Mrs Merkel is handed a honorary doctorate from Belgian KU Leuven and UGent universites in Brussels.

She was chosen for "her diplomatic and political efforts to boost Europe's political strength, and to defend the values which allow the continent to find unity in diversity".

The beleagured leader has increasingly come under fire for her ill-fated refugee policy which has seen more than a million migrants enter Germany in the past year.