Berlin took the lead in efforts to deal with the European refugee crisis, by declaring all Syrian asylum-seekers welcome to stay in Germany – regardless of which EU country they had first arrived in.
Germany expects to take in some 800,000 migrants this year alone - which is approximately 1% of its population of 80 million - while Ireland has committed to accept 600 asylum-seekers over the course of the next two years.
Europe is currently facing the worst migrant crisis since the immediate aftermath of the Second world War and there's mounting pressure on all 28 EU countries to create a new European-wide asylum policy. Chancellor Angela Merkel has described the crisis as an “exceptional situation” which “is not going to end soon.”
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