Tag Archives: Fall in asylum bids in Germany defuses political tension

BERLIN: Applications for asylum in Germany dropped steeply last year, hard-line Interior Minister Horst Seehofer reported on Wednesday, saying the issue had become less politically explosive as a result. Seehofer said the official 2018 figures showed Germany had received some 185,000 appeals for asylum — a 16-per-cent decline from the previous year, far below the heights seen at the peak …

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