{"id":362751,"date":"2024-05-21T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/05\/21\/crescono-a-75-445-le-domande-di-asilo-nellue-nel-febbraio-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:27:29","slug":"asylum-applications-in-the-eu-grow-to-75445-in-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/05\/21\/asylum-applications-in-the-eu-grow-to-75445-in-february-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum applications in the EU grow to 75,445 in February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013\u00a0In February 2024, 75,445 first-time asylum seekers applied for international protection in EU countries, an increase of less than 2 per cent compared to February 2023 (74,295).<\/p>\n<p>There were also 7,000 applicants who reapplied after an initial rejection, an increase of 7 per cent from February 2023 (6,540).<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18053909\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>This information comes from monthly asylum data released today by Eurostat.<\/p>\n<h5 id='syrians-afghans-and-venezuelans-remain-the-largest-groups-of-asylum-seekers'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">Syrians, Afghans, and Venezuelans remain the largest groups of asylum seekers<\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">In February 2024, Syrians remained the largest group of asylum seekers (10,465 first-time applicants). They were followed by Afghans (6,950) and Venezuelans (5,800).<\/p>\n<h5 id='germany-spain-italy-and-france-take-in-75-percent-of-all-first-time-asylum-seekers'  id=\"boomdevs_2\">Germany, Spain, Italy and France take in 75 percent of all first-time asylum seekers<\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">Germany (19,490), Spain (13,600), Italy (13,345) and France (10,205) continued to receive the largest number of first-time asylum seekers, accounting for 75 per cent of all first-time applicants in the EU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">In February 2024, the total number of first-time asylum seekers in the EU was 16.8 per hundred thousand people. Compared to the population of each EU country (as of January 1, 2023), the highest rates of first-time applicants were in Cyprus (87.1) and Greece (52.5).<\/p>\n<h5 id='2-555-unaccompanied-minors-applying-for-asylum-in-eu-countries'  id=\"boomdevs_3\">2,555 unaccompanied minors applying for asylum in EU countries<\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">As of February 2024, 2,555 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum for the first time in the EU, most of them from Syria (710), Afghanistan (470), Egypt (145), Somalia (135) and Guinea (110).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">The EU countries that received the most asylum applications from unaccompanied minors were Germany (1,025), the Netherlands (385), Spain (240), Greece (215) and <strong>Italy<\/strong> (190).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrians, Afghans and Venezuelans remain the largest groups. 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