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Die Welt: Refugees circumvent the Balkans in a new route through the Black Sea
FOCUS News Agency
Hamburg. Refugee may abandon their traditional routes and head to Europe from Turkey across the Black Sea, Die Welt writes.
According to the edition there will be a fresh surge of refugees as soon as weather conditions improve. It is expected around 150,000 - 200,000 refugees from Libya and Egypt to head to Europe through the Mediterranean.
So far, the refugees come here mainly from Eritrea, Nigeria and Somalia. The number of migrants from the war zone in Syria rises, however, the edition writes further.
In a strict border security in the Aegean experts also expect more attempts to escape via the Black Sea. The 2015 first time less concern about the focus refugee route via Georgia and Russia to Europe could be popular.
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http://tass.ru/en/world/858268
Some 200,000 refugees in Libya ready to leave for EU
Most of them come from Eritrea, Somali and Nigeria
BERLIN, February 21. /TASS/. Refugees trend to refuse from the so-called Balkans route to Europe due to the tough control there, and instead they plan to use a more risky route by the Mediterranean Sea, Germany’s Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday referring to data from western intelligence services.
Some 200,000 refugees now are staying along shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Libya, the newspaper writes. Most of them come from Eritrea, Somali and Nigeria. They are waiting for better weather conditions to cross the sea on the way to the European Union.
At the same time, the newspaper writes, with time refugees may also consider another route - from Turkey across the Black Sea or across territories of Georgia and Russia.
The European border agency Frontex reported over 1.5 million migrants in the EU countries last year. The inflow reduced slightly in January and early February of the current year, though most experts explain it by unfavorable weather conditions and storms in the Mediterranean Sea, not by the EU or Turkish measures to limit migration. Specialists fear by summer the inflow will approach the year of last year or will be even above it.
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