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The number of people applying for asylum in Germany last year rose to 351,915, an increase of 51.1% compared with the year before. The largest number of asylum-seekers came from Syria, with ...
Arab and Kurdish organized crime gangs have their roots in asylum seekers who began arriving in the 1980s. [31] In the 1980s thousands of Arabs and Kurds from districts of Lebanon and Turkey, significant numbers of whom were stateless, sought asylum in Germany. Unlike the earlier guest workers, were allowed to work but instead received social ...
A map of the European migrant crisis in 2015. This is a timeline of the European migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016.. Against the backdrop of four years of Syrian civil war and political instability in other Middle Eastern countries, [1] there was a record number of 1.3 million people who lodged asylum applications to the European Union's 28 member nations, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 ...
An original projection of 450,000 asylum seekers entering Germany for the whole of 2015 was revised upwards to 800,000 [46] in August and again in September to over 1 million. [47] The actual final number was 1.1 million; [48] Germany spent about €16 billion (0.5% of GDP) on processing and housing refugees that year. [49]
Germany saw asylum applications jump by around half last year, according to official data released on Monday, adding to pressure on the government to make good on its promises to bring down ...
In addition to Ukrainian war refugees, more than 188,000 people applied for asylum in Germany this year. Among those, 6,612 applications came from Georgians and 1,910 came from Moldovans during ...
Since then, in Germany's neighbouring countries, more specifically known as "safe third countries", the expected [clarification needed] number of asylum seekers sank steadily, from roughly 320,000 in 1993 to 28,018 in 2008. It was decided that asylum seekers would only have the chance of a favourable decision if they arrive by air.
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has come under pressure to deal wth a rising number of asylum applications amid rising public concern over levels of migration and growing support for far-right ...