Asylum requests reach 20-year low
Just 7,100 people applied for asylum in the Netherlands last year, says national statistics office CBS on Monday.
Of these, 2,500 requests were from Iraqi nationals and 2,000 from Somalians. A further 2,600 people who had already been turned down for refugee status reapplied, the CBS said.
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