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Refugee arrivals plunged by a third in February

Germany available 61,428 haven seekers in February, down a third from January, information expelled Tuesday by a Interior Ministry showed.

Syrians done adult a biggest organisation of people seeking refuge, with 24,612 nearing in February, while Iraqi and Afghan haven seekers numbered around 12,000 each.

The dump in numbers is mostly due to a fact that countries on a supposed “Balkan route” – a tour by south-eastern Europe taken by many refugees – have sealed their borders.

Currently tens of thousands of people who wish to transport on to northern Europe to request for haven are camped in Greece, watchful during a Macedonia limit to be let through.

The limit to that a limit is to sojourn sealed is unclear, as Chancellor ANgela Merkel refused during an EU limit on Monday to put her name to a matter dogmatic a Balkan track shut.

A final matter from a limit review instead: “Irregular flows of migrants along a Western Balkans track have now come to an end”.

Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20160308/refugee-numbers-dropped-by-a-third-in-february