【12/8新聞想想】德國今年登記難民逼近百萬
BBC報導，德國至11月底為止已登記964574名難民，在年底之前登記人數應該會突破百萬大關，超過總理梅克爾8月份承諾的80萬人。數據顯示，11月登記人數206101人寫下單月新高紀錄。梅克爾寬容的難民政策，已在德國國內引起激烈辯論。
儘管德國登記難民數只有總人口的1%，比例還低於其他歐洲國家，但總數是歐洲最高。獲登記的難民，不見得能夠獲得居留，各國的核可比例則各有差別。登記難民占人口比最高的匈牙利，去年獲得居留權的難民不到10%。德國為42%，瑞典則高達77%。歐盟的整體平均則為45%。
德國內政部表示，審核難民身份的平均時間，已由2014年的七個月縮短到目前的五個月。聯合國最高難民總署（UNHCR）則指出，由地中海抵達歐洲的難民人數在11月減少1/3，由10月的220535人減少至140000人，原因是惡劣氣候以及土耳其嚴格查緝人口走私。
Migrant crisis: Germany heads for 1m asylum-seekers in 2015
- 7 December 2015
- Europe
AFP
Germany has registered 964,574 new asylum-seekers in the first 11 months of the year, putting it on course for more than a million in 2015.
The number of migrants arriving has not slowed despite the winter cold, with a record high of 206,101 in November.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in August that the country expected 800,000 asylum-seekers over the year.
Documents leaked in October suggested the government was privately anticipating the arrival of up to 1.5m.
Germany has registered more asylum-seekers than any other nation in Europe, although at about 1% of its population, less per capita than several smaller nations.
Registered asylum seekers are not always accepted however, and rates of success vary from country to country. Fewer than 10% of applicants last year in Hungary - which has one of the highest shares of asylum-seekers in Europe - resulted in a positive decision.
The rate in Germany was 42%, while in Sweden - which registered the highest number of applications per capita - it was 77%. Across the EU, the success rate about 45%.
EPA
The number of arrivals in Germany so far this year is four times the total for all of 2014. The figures for November do not contain a breakdown by nationality, but in previous months Syrians, for whom Germany has adopted an open-door policy, have been the largest group at around a third.
The country looks set to receive less than a top estimate of 1.5m reported in October by German newspaper Bild, citing leaked government documents. A spokesman for the government denied any knowledge of the document.
Germany's interior ministry said on Monday the time taken to process applications had been brought down from an average of around seven months in 2014 to five months this year - in part by speeding applications from Syria and from what it defines as "safe countries of origin" - such as West Balkan states.
Meanwhile, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe fell by more than a third in November, due to poor weather and a Turkish crackdown on people smugglers.
In November, some 140,000 migrants and refugees made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, marking a 36.5% drop from October, when a record 220,535 landed on Europe's shores, the UNHCR said.
It remains unclear how the trend will feed into arrival figures in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to welcome Syrian refugees has won her plaudits in some quarters but sparked a backlash in others, with some senior ministers openly questioning the approach.
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