Germans often have trouble accepting that their country has been shaped by waves of immigration. The German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven looks back 300 years to a time when people were leaving Europe in droves in search of a better life.
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With the number of migrant arrivals dwindling, the German interior minister has set a provisional date to end border controls. But a new migrant route threatens Germany's plans to lift checks at its frontiers.
The European Commission has launched a drive to reform its asylum rules in order to distribute refugees more evenly around the bloc. Officials have also said the refugee deportation deal with Turkey is "a good start."
More than a million refugees came to Germany last year, bringing with them a demand for mobile phone services - and an opportunity for service providers that make migrants their key market with so-called "ethno-rates."
More than half of the places inside Germany's reception centers are vacant, the "Bild" newspaper reports. Sealing the Balkan route has largely cut off the flow of refugees into Western Europe.