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Orderly German welcome masks chaos for refugees

“IKEA can’t keep up with the demand”, he added, referring to the furniture chain store from Sweden.

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Many Germans are themselves descendants of refugees, as more than 13 million displaced people had fled from the east after the Second World War.

Germany predicts that the country will receive 800,000 Syrian refugees alone this year and has already relaxed European Union treaty policy to allow more asylum seekers into the country.

Germany’s coalition agreement included widening the list of countries deemed “safe”, meaning their citizens generally have no claim to asylum, to include Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro.

The unidentified girl appears to hand over her candies to the little refugee, as both girls’ mothers look on smiling in Munich, Germany.

The refugees are rapidly delivered to shelters sports places or colleges quickly designed with platforms and mattresses, but nothing prevents them from departing to-go everywhere they need.

“If they want official (refugee) status, they have to register within five days anywhere in Germany”, he added.

In Germany, refugees have been welcomed with cheers, food and donations of warm clothes this weekend, as the country welcomed 10,000 refugees in just one day.

Authorities calculate almost 40 percentage of these coming this season originate from the Balkans & most is likely to be refused asylum Syrians considered worth safety from their conflict.

In occasions that were regular, asylumseekers fingerprinted and are captured and also have to exhibit every other established documents and passports to show their identification.

Asylum seekers can also be recorded speaking their native tongues. The Federal Office has 45 experts who can analyze speech patterns and accents in 80 languages to check if applicants have lied about where they come from. The images of Germans applauding arriving refugees and passing out water and sweets do too.

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“We don’t know what to do with the summer dresses, tank tops and miniskirts”, a charity worker told the Tagesspiegel daily.

Wellwishers wave to migrants arriving at the main railway station in Dortmund Germany