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German interior minister proposes domestic security shake-up

German interior minister proposes domestic security shake-up

BERLIN — Germany's interior minister is proposing a security shake-up that could include creating "federal departure centres" to ease the deportation of rejected asylum-seekers and centralizing the country's domestic intelligence agency.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere's suggestions in a guest article Tuesday in the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung followed last month's attack on a Berlin Christmas market.

The government has promised to examine whether laws need to be changed following the Dec.

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