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Thursday, January 28, 2016

More people arriving in Europe without 'genuine asylum claim', says EU executive

[Migrants cross the railway tracks as they wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni]By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union executive said on Thursday there had been an increase in the number of people arriving in Europe without a genuine claim to asylum as countries around the continent grow increasingly nervous over the migration crisis. The 28-nation bloc has all but failed to curb or control the influx of refugees and migrants, with more than one million arriving in Europe last year, mainly via Greece and heading towards the EU's biggest economy, Germany. More than 54,500 people have already reached Europe by sea this year, including 50,668 through Greece, according to data from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).


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