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Refugee arrivals - a repeat of 2015?

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Jörg Luyken
Oct 14, 2022
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Seven years after the good news story of the decade, when Germany opened its borders to over a million Syrian refugees, people from the Middle East are once again making their way to Germany in larger numbers.

So far this year, some 140,000 asylum applications have been made - mainly by people from Syria and Iraq -…

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