BERLIN, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- German states are set to spend around 17 billion euros (18.55 billion U.S. dollars) on refugees in 2016, according to a latest survey published on Tuesday.
The number comes from a survey carried out by the German newspaper Die Welt, which looked at the budgets for the coming year for 15 of Germany's 16 federal states, with Bremen making an exception as it has not yet published its spending plans.
Top spenders are set to be North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, which have set aside 4 billion euros and 3.3 billion euros for refugees respectively.