Reports: Germany expects 500,000 refugees till the end of 2016

16 февраля, 2016 09:16

Dushanbe, 16.02.2016. (NIAT “Khovar”). — The German government expects 500,000 refugees to come to Germany this year. It was reported by Reuters with reference to German newspaper Rheinische Post.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Frank-Juergen Weise, head of both the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and the Federal Labor Office, to prepare for an influx of that size this year, the newspaper said in an advance copy of a report due to be published on Tuesday,.

The German Interior Ministry was not immediately available to comment on the report.

Last year some 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany.

16 февраля, 2016 09:16

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