Germany promises to take in 25,000 Afghans - EU document

FILE PHOTO: Afghan refugees are being processed inside Hangar 5 at Ramstein Air Base, where the U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a virtual 20-nation ministerial meeting on the crisis alongside his German counterpart in Germany, September 8, 2021. Olivier Douliery / Pool via REUTERS

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany has pledged to admit 25,000 Afghans deemed most at risk following the Taliban takeover in Kabul from about 40,000 such people that European Union states are to accept, according to a letter by a senior EU official.

Germany had a record number of almost 900,000 people seeking refuge on its soil in 2015, most of them coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.