Immigrants are escorted by German police to a registration centre, after crossing the Austrian-German border in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Michael Dalder/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's interior minister has caused a furore five months before an election for saying migrants must accept a "dominant (German) culture" that includes shaking hands, rejecting Islamic full-face veils and grasping the importance of Bach and Goethe.
The row over 10 theses on German culture and values set out by conservative Thomas de Maiziere in a Sunday paper indicates that the integration of more than a million migrants who have arrived in Germany since 2015 will be a hot election issue.
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