The president of the Czech Republic has claimed it is "impossible" for Muslims to integrate into modern Europe" The Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

Zeman is known for his fiery anti-migrant comments and has previously accused refugees "with iPhones" of exploiting their children to get asylum in the EU.

"The experience of Western European countries which have ghettos and excluded localities shows that the integration of the Muslim community is practically impossible," Zeman said in a televised interview Sunday.

"Let them have their culture in their countries and not take it to Europe, otherwise it will end up like Cologne," he added, referring to the mass New Year's Eve assaults on women in Germany and elsewhere.

"Integration is possible with cultures that are similar, and the similarities may vary," pointing out that the Vietnamese and Ukrainian communities had been able to integrate into Czech society.

Zeman, a 71-year-old leftwinger and the first-ever directly elected president of the Czech Republic, has repeatedly spoken out against the surge of migrant and refugee arrivals in Europe.

Source: MENA