A girl looks out from a temporary reception centre at Storskog border station in northern Norway October 13, 2015. REUTERS/Tore Meek/NTB Scanpix
OSLO (Reuters) - Emergency laws tightening Norway's asylum rules came into force on Friday as the government tries to stem a sharp rise in the number of people arriving that has led support among voters for an anti-immigration party to surge.
The Nordic country of 5.2 million people, which is a member of the passport-free Schengen area but not of the European Union, expects to receive up to 35,000 asylum applications this year. That figure has been revised upwards several times since August as Europe grapples with its biggest migrant crisis since World War Two.
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