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Austria is paying refugees to leave
Austria has said it will double the amount of money paid to migrants who voluntarily return to their home countries as part of a plan to speed up the repatriation of 50,000 asylum seekers. Interior minister Wolfgang Sobotka said migrants would be offered €1,000 or about £864, during a press conference in Vienna. The scheme, which is reportedly run in collaboration with pro-refugee groups, is aimed at migrants who are unlikely to qualify for at least temporary residence by 2019.
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