In the past year, have been made in Germany around 185.800 asylum applications. This is a decline of 16 percent compared to the previous year, as the Federal government announced the Ministry of the interior in Berlin on Wednesday. Thus, there were almost 162.000 initial applications, as well as nearly 24,000 a result of requests – a total of well 36.800 less than 2017. In 2016, there were around 280,000 and in 2015, some 890,000 asylum seekers.
The majority of asylum seekers came, according to the Ministry of the interior from Syria, Iran and Iran. Federal interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) said at the presentation of the Figures in Berlin, this showed that “the measures taken had the desired effect”. After the peak of the refugee situation in the autumn of 2015, a “continuous decline can be observed figures” of the asylum.
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Seehofer presented the asylum figures for 2018 as well as the migration report of the Federal government for the years 2016 and 2017 in Berlin. At his side, the head of the Federal office for Migration and refugees (Bamf), Hans-Eckhard Sommer. (AFP)
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