Based on this, “we expect to face a rather difficult year,” she said. Immigrants have been flocking from war zones around the world to Europe, including Hungary, where 150-200 people arrive per day on average.

According to figures cited by the programme, the number of applications for asylum had increased twenty-fold over the past three years. There were 42,000 applications submitted last year alone, compared with only some 2,000 in 2012.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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