Germany has taken in more than one million asylum seekers since 2015, many from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, sparking an anti-foreigner backlash and a spate of racist hate crimes.

“We will have to redouble efforts to deport people,” she said.She also pledged that weapons laws across Europe would be sharpened, further research into radicalization would be conducted, and stronger controls on what people do on the internet would be implemented.

“We are talking about a huge litmus test, not just for Germany but for the whole of Europe.”'Urgent action'While the German political class has largely called for calm, opposition parties and rebels from Merkel's own conservative bloc have accused her of exposing the country to an unacceptable level of risk without stricter controls on new arrivals.

"Islamist terrorism has unfortunately arrived in Bavaria," the state's interior minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters Thursday, renewing calls by his Christian Social Union party for an upper limit on new asylum seekers let into Germany."We are awaiting urgent action from the federal government and Europe - now is the time to act."

The deadliest attack came on Friday when a German-Iranian teenager who was born and raised in Munich opened fire at a downtown shopping mall, killing nine people before turning the gun on himself.

He had been under psychiatric treatment and investigators say he was obsessed with mass shooting, including Norwegian right-wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 massacre.The term will not be replaced overnight, but it is a task for the near future, said Widmann-Mauz.

Under the title "Shaping the Immigration Society Together", the commission shared the report with Merkel after two years of work.?The committee, consisting of 25 experts, dealt with the topics of language, housing, work and social participation. Integration is an "ongoing task that affects everyone", the report states.?

The commission's recommendations are addressed to the federal government, Germany’s 16 states and the municipalities.Immigrants more often unemployed due to the virus