After letting in over a half million migrants, Germany tightens asylum law

September 29, 2015 21:10

Germany's cabinet has approved a new asylum law aimed at reducing the number of migrants arriving from the Balkans.

The change, which will need parliamentary approval, would prevent people from Kosovo, Montenegro and Albania from seeking asylum in Germany.Border controls were imposed by Germany to slow the influx of migrants and refugees earlier this month.

The UN refugee agency says more than 514,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year. The majority have come via Greece and almost 3,000 people have died on the journey or are missing, it says.

Germany alone expects between 800,000 and one million people to seek asylum in 2015, more than four times the number last year.

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