Chancellor Angela Merkel met Thursday with ethnic leaders in Berlin to announce government assistance to minorities which federal leaders fear are developing into separate societies, REPORTED DPA. The 90 community leaders at the summit were to adopt a "national integration plan" containing 400 promises for improvements. Amid fears that poor minorities may be radicalized, business leaders also attended the "integration summit." They have been pressed to train and employ larger numbers of immigrant youths. However, four major Turkish groups boycotted the summit in protest at legislation passed last week which raises the hurdles for newly wed Turkish women moving to Germany to live with their husbands. They must be over 18 and pass a language test. --MORE
