The variety of asylum purposes for the primary time in EU international locations in 2024 was 912,000, down 13% in comparison with the earlier yr.
The Syrians had been the most important group on the lookout for safety, representing 148,000 purposes for the primary time, or 16% of the EU whole.
They had been adopted by Venezuelani, with virtually 73,000 purposes and Afghan with simply over 72,000.
Hungary acquired much less questions from Liechtenstein
Asylum requests additionally included 36,000 unaccompanied minors, most of which from Syria (32%), Afghanistan (16%) and Egypt (8%).
1 / 4 of all of the questions had been offered in Germany, whereas the second highest price was in Spain (18%), adopted by Italy (17%), France (14%) and Greece (8%).
The information set additionally exhibits non-EU international locations, reminiscent of Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.
Hungary was the nation that acquired the bottom variety of total questions – 25.
Cyprus brings most migration stress
Cyprus, nonetheless, needed to face most stress with 7.2 candidates for the primary time for 1,000 individuals, whereas the EU common is 2.
The city launched into an necessary rescue of the ocean final month when a migrant boat that transported at the least 20 individuals turned 45 kilometers from the coast of the Mediterranean island, leaving solely two survivors.
The rescue effort passed off in the midst of the rise in irregular border crossings within the jap Mediterranean, in response to the EU frontiers’ border safety company.
In phrases of purposes for a thousand individuals, Greece follows Cyprus with 6.6, adopted by Ireland and Spain (3.4 every) and Luxembourg (3.2).
Video editor Mert can yilmaz
