Germany wants to noticeably reduce refugee influx Merkel
Date
12/14/2015 3:36:19 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The German authorities want to significantly decrease the number of refugees arriving in the country German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
Earlier in December German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere announced that 965000 people had received or applied for refugee status in Germany this year.
"We want to reduce we want to noticeably decrease the number of arriving refugees" Merkel told the German ARD broadcaster in an interview on the sidelines of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party meeting late on Sunday.
The ruling CDU party has repeatedly asked Merkel to limit the number of arriving refugees but the chancellor has been uncompromising.
On Sunday European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Gunther Oettinger said Germany would be unable to cope with the reception of 1.1 million refugees in 2016.
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