It's not front-page news, but Focus brought it up today, and it's a curious piece that affects Germany.
Back about nine months ago....Serbia got this idea to adjust the visa situation for Iranians. The Serbs don't really talk much about the change but they relaxed it to help funnel tourism and potential investment money from Iran.
A curious thing happened though with this easy-access visa deal into Serbia.....the Iranian tourists arrived (now at least 6,000) and used the visa to access borders, and entered into Europe. No one says much over how many came into Germany or France but you have to figure the majority of the 6,000 came in, and intend to stay.
At some point in the mid 1990s...Serbia hit a peak on population (around 7.8-million). In 2017, they were at 7.01-million. Over the past decade, you can see a 40,000 decrease with the population almost yearly. Some of this relates to the lower birth-rate....some relates to young people leaving the country because of poor job potential....and some relates to lack of hope over better living conditions.
Muslims in Serbia? Well....the general number is around 210,000 out of the population....more or less.
My guess is that the Foreign Office in Serbia saw a chance on selling simplified visas and a chance to draw investment in from Iran. Cyprus has done this and attracted 'guest' investors as well.
Germany to say something? If you use the 2013 period and look over the general reaction time.....you can figure it'll take three years for someone to add the numbers and get hyped up.
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