Asylum applications to Europe increased by 17 percent
The number of people who submitted their first asylum application in August 2022 to one of the 27 member countries of the European Union increased by 17 percent compared to the same month of the previous year
The European Commission’s statistics office, in its latest report on the trend of refugees entering the European Union, announced that a total of 77,595 new asylum applications were registered in EU member countries last August