BRUSSELS, 30 Jul – RIA Novosti. The number of requests for asylum in European Union countries in March decreased by 43% compared to the previous month, the report said European support office in the area of asylum.
“In March, only 34 737 applications were submitted in the EU, which is 43% less than in February,” the report said.
furthermore, these data suggest is not about reducing the number of the asylum seekers in one of the countries of the EU, and reflect the measures taken to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
on the Sixteenth of April, the European Commission issued recommendations for EU countries for the review of requests for asylum in countering COVID-19, calling not to stop these procedures.
In 2019 in the EU, Switzerland and Norway, there were more than 714 thousand applications for asylum.
Leaders in the number of applications began to come from Syria, Afghanistan and Venezuela. A positive decision on asylum was made only on every third treatment. The highest percentage of satisfied requests (over 80%) was observed in applicants from Syria, Yemen and Eritrea, and the lowest for immigrants from the Western Balkans and Latin America.
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