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| 350,000 Migrants Arrived in EU this Year So Far |
| 2016-12-18 |
| [AnNahar] The head of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... border control agency says that about 350,000 Fabrice Leggeri, executive director of the Frontex border agency, was quoted Saturday by German daily Ruhr-Nachrichten as saying about 180,000 people arrived via ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the eastern Mediterranean, while 170,000 reached the continent across the central Mediterranean route from Libya and Egypt. That's a sharp decline from 2015, when more than 1 million people arrived. Leggeri said a deal between the EU and Turkey reduced the number of The International Organization of Migration said last month that 4,636 people died on the Mediterranean this year, about 1,000 more than through this point last year. |
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