PART OF THE PLAN: More than 130,000 migrants have ‘vanished’ in Germany – 13 per cent of arrivals in the last 14 months – the government reveals. [archive]

The numbers are calculated on accommodation slots across the country that were allocated and not taken up.

The head of Germany’s migration office, Frank-Jürgen Weise, also admitted that there are currently up to 400,000 people in the country whose identities are unknown to authorities.

Germany also said it enjoys little success in sending refugees back to EU states responsible for them – the ‘safe’ countries they first arrived in from their homelands.