Berlin: Including 37,000 in the first eight days of September another 450,000 refugees have arrived in Germany, the Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the parliament today.
“Up to the day before yesterday, Germany registered 450,000 refugees, including 105,000 in August, and 37,000 in the first eight days of September. There may be more than 100,000 in September,” the Vice Chancellor added.
“Honestly speaking, this shows that the distribution of 160,000 refugees across Europe is a first step, if one wants to be polite,” said Gabriel, according to the European Commission’s proposal for EU member states to share out the new arrivals. “Or you could call it a drop in the ocean,” he added.
Angela Merkel, Chancellor has advice the 28-national bloc to go further and agree on a proportional distribution of refugees with no limits on actual numbers, made a record influx from war-torn Syria and other countries.
“We cannot just fix a ceiling and say, ‘I don’t care about anything above that’”, she told parliament on Wednesday.
Germany is getting ready to welcome 800,000 asylum-seekers this year, which is four times more than the last year and far more then European country.
