Germany Struggles With Nearly One Million New Refugees in 2015
- Registered asylum seekers climb to 965,000 through November
- Migrant influx has tapered off `significantly' in recent days
Refugees arrive at a registration centre in Giessen, Germany, on Dec. 2, 2015.
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The number of asylum seekers making their way to Germany this year approached one million as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government struggles to shelter and register the influx of migrants fleeing war and poverty.
The number of registered asylum seekers rose to about 965,000 by the end of November, exceeding the government’s full-year forecast from August of 800,000, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin Monday. Double registrations would likely reduce that number, though de Maiziere declined to give another full-year estimate.