More Than 1 Million Refugees And Migrants Arrived In The EU In 2015

IBTimes: Europe Refugee And Migrant Arrivals Cross 1 Million In 2015, Watchdog Report Says

More than 1 million refugees and migrants have arrived by land and sea in the European Union this year in the fallout of war, poverty and persecution in Africa and the Middle East, the U.N. refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday. The number of people displaced by war and conflict is the highest seen in Western and Central Europe since the 1990s, the two agencies said in a joint statement.

Half of those arriving this year were Syrians escaping the war-torn country, while another 20 percent were Afghans, and 7 percent were Iraqis, the agencies said in the report. Nearly 3,700 others died trying to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats.

Around 972,500 people had crossed the Mediterranean Sea by Dec. 21, according to the U.N. refugee agency. In addition, IOM estimates that over 34,000 have crossed from Turkey into Bulgaria and Greece by land.

WNU Editor: As for 2016 .... no EU officials are now willing to go on the record to state how many more refugees will be coming into Europe. My prediction .... definitely more than one million.

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EU gets 1 million migrants in 2015, smugglers seen making $1 bln -- Reuters
Number of migrants reaching Europe this year passes 1 million -- CNN
Over a million migrants and refugees have reached Europe this year, says IOM -- The Guardian
How a Record Number of Migrants Made Their Way to Europe -- NYT
More than 1 million refugees enter Europe this year -- CSM
Refugees and migrants fleeing to Europe in 2015 top unprecedented one million – UN -- UN News Centre