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Austria Can Accept No More than 100,000 Migrants/Year – Vice Chancellor

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Bulgaria: Austria Can Accept No More than 100,000 Migrants/Year – Vice Chancellor

A group of street cleaners arrives to clean up a parking deck at the railway station in Salzburg, that was converted into a temporary accomodation area for refugees, in Salzburg, Austria, 14 September 2015. EPA/BGNES

Austria can’t accept more than 100,000 migrants a year, the country’s Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner has said.

"Around 90-100,000 - a lot more will simply not be possible," Reuters quoted Mitterlehner as telling ORF radio station on Monday.

Austria expects to have received about 95,000 asylum applications this year, equivalent to over 1% of its population. There were 28,000 asylum seekers registered in Austria last year.

An increasing number of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo are returning to their countries, saying that they had expected better social care and a shorter asylum process in Austria, according to thelocal.at.

The news outlet quoted Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundb?ck as saying last week that the trend “has become more noticeable since mid-September".

Between January and November 530 people from Iraq and 120 from Afghanistan have returned home from Austria.

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