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Slight drop in the number of asylum requests in the EU, followed by Syria and Afghanistan leading the list

Politiko 2024-09-17 09:13:48

Slight drop in the number of asylum requests in the EU, followed by Syria and

The number of asylum seekers in the EU, as well as in Norway and Switzerland fell slightly in the first half of the year. But this figure continues to be more than half a million. From January to the end of June, the European Union Asylum Agency (EUAA) counted a total of 513,000 new applications, as announced by this agency based on the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Compared to the first half of 2023, this means a minus of 6,000. The statistics include asylum seeker figures in all EU countries, as well as Norway and Switzerland, both of which do not belong to the European Union.

Germany leads with the number of requests

Most asylum applications are in Germany: 124,000. This corresponds to almost a quarter of the total. However, according to the EU agency, the German authorities have received about 30,000 fewer requests than in the same period last year.

The figures for Germany differ slightly from the information provided by the responsible federal office in Nuremberg. EUAA expects more than one million applications for the covered area by the end of the year.

Many requests from Syria and Afghanistan

According to the EUAA agency, the majority of asylum seekers came from civil war-torn Syria: 71,000, an increase of seven percent. Then comes Afghanistan with 45 thousand asylum seekers, a decrease of 18 percent.

37,000 people sought asylum from Venezuela - almost all of them in Spain. These figures do not include about 4.5 million Ukrainians who sought refuge in the EU and received temporary protection as a result of the Russian war of aggression./ DW

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