German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere attends a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, May 20, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
DEGGENDORF, Germany (Reuters) - German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Tuesday that far more asylum seekers would arrive in Germany this year than the 400,000 first-time applicants his ministry had previously expected.
He said the interior ministry was preparing a new forecast that would soon be published, adding: "I have to prepare the German public for the number (of asylum seekers) being considerably higher than we estimated so far."
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