"The number of
(new) asylum seekers has decreased from 1,500 a day to some 900 since border
controls were reintroduced" on November 12, the Swedish Migration Agency
said in a statement.
Worsening weather
conditions may have also contributed to the decline, it added.
Short-staffed
authorities still face a backlog of applications submitted before the controls
were reintroduced, the agency said.
The restrictions
are likely to be extended to December 11, the interior ministry has said.
Long a preferred
destination for people fleeing war and poverty, Sweden like several other EU
countries reinstated border controls in a bid to gain control over the
unprecedented influx.
A country of 9.8
million people, Sweden has
taken in more refugees as a proportion of its population than any other country
in Europe .
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