"Germany will remain Germany," despite the integration of hundreds of thousands of refugees from other countries, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
"Germany will remain Germany - with all that is dear to us," Merkel said in an interview with Germany's "Süddeutsche Zeitung" daily.
"But Germany has undergone constant change since the beginning of the federal republic. Change is nothing bad. It's a necessary part of life," she added.
