The German
government expects 500,000 refugees to come to Germany this year, German
newspaper Rheinische Post cited sources from the Federal Labor Office
as saying. German Interior
Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Frank-Juergen Weise, head of both the
Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and the Federal Labor
Office, to prepare for an influx of that size this year, the newspaper
said in an advance copy of a report due to be published on Tuesday. The German Interior Ministry was not immediately available to comment on the report. Last year some 1.1
million migrants arrived in Germany. German media tend to use the word
refugee to refer to both refugees and migrants.
Germany expects 500,000 refugees this year: newspaper
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