Speech: Remarks of Commissioner Avramopoulos at the OECD High-Level Policy Forum on Migration

Text of a speech by Dimitris Avramopulos, Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship at the OECD High-Level Policy Forum on Migration in Paris, 01 December 2014.

OECD's 2014 International Migration Outlook showed that Germany was receiving more migrants than any other wealthy country, except for the United States.

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