[AnNahar] Germany toughened rules Tuesday for asylum seekers from the Balkans as Europe struggled to cope with a record surge in migrants, with those crossing the Mediterranean exceeding the half a million mark.
Berlin added Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro to a list of so-called safe origin countries, which will result in swifter deportations for asylum seekers from those conflict-free states, in a bid to free up resources to deal with claims from citizens of war-torn countries like Syria.
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Germany's open-door policy to Syrians has sparked festivities with eastern EU member states, in particular Hungary, which has adopted the opposite strategy of sealing off its borders to migrants.
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