Yet another anti-immigration demonstration was held on Tallinn Freedom Square on July 18. (Martin Dremljuga/ERR)
Estonia has agreed to relocate 130 migrants, that is people who are in need of international protection but have not yet been granted refugee status, from Italy or Greece.
In addition, it will resettle 20 refugees currently based in refugee camps in third countries.
Speculations on who those people are and where they come from have split the society. A UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) report from July 1 provides some clues.
According to the UNHCR, in the first six months of 2015, 137,000 people arrived in Europe by sea.
That compares to 75,000 in the same period in 2014 – an 83 percent increase, and the numbers are expected to rise still.
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