German Chancellor Angela Merkel expects that this year about 60,000 migrants and refugees will leave Germany voluntarily, Sputnik reported.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201611261047860130-merkel-migrants-leave-germany/

German Chancellor noted that around 100,000 migrants will leave the country. At the same time one third of them will be expelled from Germany by force, over 60,000 of them will return home voluntarily in the framework of return programs.

Europe faces the biggest migratory crisis since World War II, caused, first of all, by a number of armed conflicts and economic problems in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.

According to the EU's border protection agency, Frontex, 1.8 million migrants arrived in the European Union in 2015.

As Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany noted, more than one million refugees arrived in Germany alone in 2015.