With few other European countries prepared to share the burden, the influx has stretched Germany’s capacity to find housing for migrants and process asylum applications. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, which the government is beefing up amid mounting criticism of a backlog of paperwork, decided on 35,422 applications last month. “This isn’t yet a turnaround, but it is a good development,” with poor weather in the Mediterranean Sea and efforts by Turkey to stop people making the crossing to Greece apparently contributing, he said.
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