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by codys 3397 days ago
> millions of refugees that change the social fabric altogether

Note that there were slightly over 1 million applications for asylum in Europe in 2015 [1]. I can't find numbers for totals in 2016, but [2] has some raw statistics & charts. Note that these numbers don't account for migrants that don't apply for asylum (which could be a very small or a very large percentage, but is likely non-zero).

I can't speak for the "changing the social fabric" bit though.

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34131911

[2]: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

[cache of 2]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ki9SPSv...