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Germany approves tougher migration measures

People visit a job fair for refugees from Ukraine in the foyer of the World Trade Centre in Dresden, Germany. © AP - Sebastian Kahnert

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the heads of Germany's 16 states have agreed on new measures to tackle soaring migration after crunch talks.

In the first four months of 2023, some 101,981 asylum applications were filed in Germany, an increase of 78 percent from the same period in 2022.

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