The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. December 8, 2015 Germany on Track to Accept 1 Million Refugees This Year -------------------------------------------------------- The U.N. aid appeal comes as Germany releases new figures showing it is on track to accept more than 1 million new refugees this year alone. That's more than four times the number of refugees who resettled in Germany in 2014. The figures show that in recent months Syrians have constituted more than 30 percent of all refugee applications.