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The number of people applying for asylum in the Netherlands from countries considered to be safe has dropped dramatically in the first six months of this year, Trouw said on Wednesday.
Some 1,200 people from Morocco claimed asylum in the Netherlands in the second half of last year, but just 485 did so in the first six months of 2017, the paper said, quoting immigration service statistics.
The number of requests from Algerians fell from 900 to 440 and the number from Albania went down from 600 to 220.
These countries are all considered safe and their nationals have very little chance of winning refugee rights in the Netherlands.