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Germany reaches deal on sending back migrants to Greece

<span style="color: #222222;">Germany has reached an agreement with Greece to send back migrants to the Mediterranean country, if they have already applied for asylum there. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement in Berlin that signing of an administrative agreement with Greece is a further step on the way to more orderly conditions in European migration policy. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Last week Germany and Spain sealed a similar deal on returning migrants. Both deals come after a dispute between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Bavarian allies over returning migrants that nearly split them and brought down the government. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">More than 1.6 million migrants have arrived in Germany since mid-2014, provoking tensions and propelling the far-right Alternative for Germany into the national parliament.</span><br />

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