Migration experts have suggested that more than one million people driven out their countries by war, poverty, and persecution have entered Europe this year, more than four times as many as last year. “This is a global issue”, Michael Moller, director of the United Nations office in Geneva, told a news conference on Tuesday.
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More than a million migrants and refugees have arrived in the European Union by land and sea in 2015.
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“We are already seeing enhanced effort on the part of the gendarmerie and the police but basically we want to stop this”, he said. This trend is likely to continue in countries like Germany and Sweden in 2016, largely because their declining population levels means there is a need for immigrants. “All of our countries have always been open to new influx of people and it’s always benefited us”.
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“As anti-foreigner sentiments escalate in some quarters, it is important to recognize the positive contributions that refugees and migrants make to the societies in which they live and also honour core European values: protecting lives, upholding human rights and promoting tolerance and diversity”, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres in a release.
The Turkish coast guard rescued another 21 migrants from the sea including a one-year-old baby and is still searching for two more people from the wooden boat, which capsized due to rough seas and overloading, the agency said.
At least 3,692 migrants died this year during the voyage, the IMO says, and a growing number of the fatalities are among children or infants. Another 150,000 came into Italy across the Mediterranean from north Africa while smaller numbers crossed from Turkey by land into neighbouring Greece and Bulgaria.
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Others that were not accounted for in the IOM total crossed from borders such as a route from Russian Federation to Norway where a few thousand crossed by bicycle, The Huffington Post reports.
This marked a slight decline from 2014, when 170,000 people landed in Italy after crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.
It also said that the number of people displaced by war and conflict was the highest in Western and Central Europe since the 1990s, when several conflicts broke out in the former Yugoslavia.
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European governments have struggled to agree on a response, arguing about how welcoming they should be and how best to manage the flows.
