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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11402

3 October 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Asylum, 700,000 refugees to arrive in EU in 2015, according to UNHCR

Brussels, 02/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 1 October, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that 700,000 migrants will seek refuge by crossing the Mediterranean to the EU in 2015, and similar numbers, if not higher, would arrive in 2016.

In a report calling for additional finance published on Thursday 1 October, the UNHCR doubled the number of refugees expected this year compared with the figures released at the end of August, when it was expecting...

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EXTERNAL ACTION
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
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