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File photo: Dust, destruction and despair: Much of Syria remains unsafe for war refugees to return | Photo: Kasim Rammah / Anadolu Agency / picture-alliance
Swiss lawmakers hope to tighten the country's asylum rules | Photo: Alessandro della Valle / Keystone / picture-alliance
File photo used as illustration: Changes in both Dutch national law and those introduced by the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum appear to have changed asylum trends in the Netherlands | Photo: Remko de Waal / Reuters

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File photo: Countless migrants from various countries continue to attempt irregular journeys from France to the UK by boat | Photo: SNMS Berck sur Mer / AFP
File photo: South Sudan has been devastated by a series of internal conflicts. It has also taken in more than one million refugees from the civil war in neighboring Sudan| Photo: Ragione Moses Runyanga / UNHCR
The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking rescued 23 people at sea in the Libyan search and rescue region | Photo: Adriel Perdomo / EPA / picture alliance

Understanding Europe

File photo: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that the European Union will propose an emergency framework to prevent a sudden influx of irregular migrant arrivals into the bloc | Photo : Yves Herman / Reuters
DW has been canvassing opinion across Saxony Anhalt, following state elections there, here three men, an entrepreneur, an AfD supporter and a migrant doctor talk about their reactions to the vote | Source: Screenshot DW
Mustafa Groener is a German member of Saxony Anhalt's parliament for Die Linke, the Left party. As he explains in this video, he himself has roots outside Germany, from his Moroccan-born mother | Source: DW Screenshot