{"id":348138,"date":"2024-03-25T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/25\/richiesta-asilo-20-per-cento-nel-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:35:08","slug":"immigration-20-per-cent-more-first-asylum-applications-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/25\/immigration-20-per-cent-more-first-asylum-applications-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration, 20 per cent more first asylum applications in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013\u00a0In 2023, the European Union recorded 1,048,900 first asylum applications,<\/strong> a 20 per cent<\/strong> increase in applications for international protection upon arrival in EU territory compared to 2022 (873,000). Eurostat, in releasing the consolidated data, points out that “after a significant drop in 2020 (417,100), numbers have increased for three consecutive years, reaching the peaks recorded in 2015 and 2016<\/strong> (1,216,900 and 1,166,800) after the war in Syria.”<\/p>\n

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Syria is the first country<\/strong> in terms\u00a0of non-EU citizens applying for protection and has remained number one since 2013. In 2023, Syrians filed 183,000 first-time applications (17 per cent of the total number of first-time applications). Next come Afghanistan<\/strong> (100,900, 10 per cent of the EU total) and Turkey<\/strong> (90 thousand applications, 9 per cent of the total). Applications for international protection from South American nationals are also reported (Venezuela and Colombia, both accounting for 6 per cent of the total, or 67,100 and 62 thousand, respectively).<\/p>\n