European countries have issued a number of precautionary decisions and legislations to limit their entrance. In some cases they may also return them back to their countries either willingly or unwillingly.
The decisions come hand in hand with the report issued from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stating that in 2016, 1.7 million people were internally displaced while 1.5 million others were able to cross borders of neighboring countries. These number show that the number of displaced and refugees have increased by three times in comparison with 2015 number, and the return movements are low due to the conflicts in their countries.
The German government will implement a plan, starting this month, to motivate refugees to leave Germany willingly, costing the government almost half a billion euros.
According to the plan set by The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the government will offer all refugees from the 11 countries jobs in their home countries so they would not need to illegally immigrate to Europe once again.
The plan initially includes Kosovo, Serbia, Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq and countries from Central Africa. The plan does not cover refugees who have attained political asylum, on the other hand refugees who's problems have been solved in their home countries have to return and fall under the plan. The plan has been approved by the majority in the German parliament (Bundestag) in coordination with the ministries of interior and justice.
Germany is suffers from handling refugees with no identification papers after encouraging asylum six years ago due to the safety and military crises in countries such as Iraq, Syria and a number of countries in Central Asia.
The Austrian government has decided to limit the number of refugee entries this year to 35,000 people and a maximum of 127,500 refugees by 2019 as it will begin to monitor its borders. Its unlikely that the government will accept anymore refugees as it has exceeded its current capacity which is causing social and safety issues.
In Greece the Dublin Regulation will be implemented this month, which aims to determine rapidly the Member State responsible and provides for the transfer of an asylum seeker to that Member State. Usually, the responsible Member State will be the state through which the asylum seeker first entered the EU, in this case Greece. The latter is then responsible to process the return paperwork after providing a suitable place during the period of processing. 
For her part, Sweden started to share responsibilities with other European countries in terms of accepting more refugees. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven stressed the need for all EU member states to shoulder their responsibilities towards refugees in a fair way. 
Since 2014, Sweden has accepted 245,000 refugees, one of the highest rates in Europe.  Syria remains the top exporter of refugees with a total number of 5.3 million refugees, which accounts for 32 percent of world refugees. They are hosted in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt in the Middle East. In Europe, Germany leads the way, followed by Sweden. 
Afghanistan comes second as the country exporting the highest number of refugees with 2.7 million. They are mainly hosted in neighboring Iran and Pakistan. 
The third country is Somalia with 1.1 million refugees, hosted in Kenya, Yemen and Ethiopia. South Sudan, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Myanmar, Eritrea and Colombia follow on the list of top refugee-exporting countries. 
The U.N. report says that refugee-hosting countries are usually developing, middle-income or even poor countries. Turkey hosts the biggest share of the world's refugees at 2.8 million people, followed by Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Uganda, Germany and Chad. 
The report also highlights the issue of refugees' return, which has been growing and reached around 123,000 in 2016, compared to 84,000 in 2015. However, the number of returning refugees didn't affect reduce the number of refugees around the world. 
Countries with the highest number of returning refugees are Sudan, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Somalia, Ghana and Afghanistan, according to the report. These countries account for 80 percent of the returning refugees. 
In terms of countries receiving requests by refugees there asking to leave in search for a new home, Lebanon comes on top, followed by Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey and Kenya. However, the re-housing process faces several challenges because of the huge number of refugees without identification papers. An estimated 10 million refugees across more than 70 countries have no identification papers. International organizations are working hard to identify them so that government can handle them and register them on refugee lists.

Source: QNA