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A record 1.3 million people sought asylum in Europe in 2015

A migrant walks towards Gevgelija in Macedonia after crossing Greece's border, Macedonia, August 22, 2015. Thousands of migrants stormed across Macedonia's border on Saturday, overwhelming security forces who threw stun grenades and lashed out with batons in an increasingly futile bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe. Some had spent days in the open with little or no access to food or water afterMacedonia on Thursday declared a state of emergency and sealed its borders to migrants, many of them refugees from war in Syria and other conflicts in the Middle East. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski - RTX1P820

Which countries have taken the most? Image: REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

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