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With three weeks to go before the end of the year, Germany has officially seen one million people arrive in the country as asylum seekers in the course of 2015.
That was the number of people registered in the "Easy" computer system and distributed across Germany, Bavarian social minister Emilia Müller of the Christian Social Union (CSU) told reporters in Munich.
In November alone, more than 200,000 people were added to the list, smashing forecasts.