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Why is EU struggling migrants and asylum?
By: Laurence Peter, BBC News
By: Laurence Peter, BBC News
[1] Some 2,500 migrants have drowned ∈ the Mediterranean
[2] this year as overcrowded boats head for the coasts of Greece
[3] and Italy.
[4] The flow of desperate migrants from Syria and North Africa
[5] hoping to reach Europe is already much higher than ∈ the
[6] same period ∈2014.
[7] Germany, which receives __________ the most asyIum
[8] applications ∈ the EU, is expecting 800,000 refugees to
[9] arrive this year.
[10] How big is the migration challenge affecting Europe now?
[11] The number of migrants reaching Europe by boat has risen
[12] dramatically this year, compared with the same period ∈
[13] 2014. The number arriving ∈Greece, ∈ particular, has
[14] soared.
[15] The EU's border agency said that almost 50,000 migrants
[16] had arrived on the Greek islands ∈July alone, most of them
[17] Syrians. The number of migrants reaching Greece by sea had
[18] reached 158,000 by mid-August, according to the UN,
[19] overtaking the 90,000 who arrived ∈ItaIy by sea.
[20] The majority heading for Greece via the eastern
[21] Mediterranean route take the relatively short voyage from the
[22] Turkish mainland to the islands of Kos, Chios, Lesvos and
[23] Samos. The voyage from Libya to Italy is longer and more
[24] hazardous.
[25] Migrant deaths at sea this year passed 2,000∈August, the
[26] International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported. And
[27] of those, 1,930 died trying to reach Italy. A shipwreck off
[28] Italy's Lampedusa island on 19 April took an estimated 800
[29] lives. So, more migrants - Syrians especially - are trying to
[30] reach Greece now, __________ risking the Libya route.
[31] Since the beginning of the year some 340,000 migrants have
[32] been detected at Europe's external borders, Frontex says.
[33] That compares with 123,500∈ the same period last year.
(Retrieved and adapted from http://www.newstoday.com.bd/?option=detaiIs&newsid=2420633&date=2015-08-30. Access on October, 152 2015)
Answer questions according to Text 1.
The expression “more hazardous” (lines 23 and 24) can be replaced, Without change ∈ meaning, by:
