INTERNATIONAL: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced on Wednesday his government would make it easier for workers from abroad to come to Germany and to integrate, and fight back against right-wing extremism which was the biggest threat to democracy in the country.

"We are an immigration country .But we must work at becoming a better country for integration," he said in his first major address to parliament since taking office last week.

The new government - an unprecedented coalition of his centre-left Social Democrats, the ecological Greens and liberal Free Democrats - plans on making it easier to get German nationality and to have multiple nationalities.