In the latest developments in the migrant issue, Germany has unveiled plans to speed up the asylum process, after the governing coalition resolved a rift on the issue.
Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that they would create up to five special centres for asylum-seekers deemed to have little chance of staying.
Merkel’s Christian Democrats and junior coalition partners the Social Democrats have quarrelled for weeks over the issue.
The country states that it expects to receive at least 800,000 asylum seekers this year. Earlier, the European Commission said that around 3 million migrants were estimated to arrive in Europe, by the end of 2017.
The huge influx of asylum seekers has caused political turmoil across the EU with member states disagreeing about how to deal with the crisis. “We took a good and important step forward,” said Mrs Merkel, whose open-door refugee policy has come in for strong criticism in Germany.
The five special centres would hold migrants from countries deemed safe; those barred from re-entering Germany; and those refusing to co-operate.
Source: BBC.
