Germany’s Interior Ministry is set to announce the number of refugees and migrants who arrived in the country in 2016, after 2015 marked a record year for arrivals.
The 2016 data will set the stage for the general election later this year, in which migration and the integration of newcomers are expected to be key campaign themes.
The ministry initially said that 1.1 million refugees and migrants arrived in Germany in 2015 but later revised that estimate down to 890,000.
Report says migration to Germany is expected to have fallen in 2016.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who at the height of Europe’s migration crisis in September 2015 decided to open Germany’s borders to refugees and migrants stranded in Hungary, has since toughened the government’s stance.