As restrictions are eased, asylum applications in the EU+ increase significantly, but remain at half pre-COVID-19 levels

Although the 31 500 applications in June represented a threefold increase from May, this number was still at about half the level prior to the pandemic.

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Thursday, August 13, 2020

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Refugees, Human migration, European migrant crisis, Politics, Immigration

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Although the 31 500 applications in June represented a threefold increase from May, this number was still at about half the level prior to the pandemic.
In fact, almost all EU+ countries received fewer applications in June than in the first two months of the year.
In the first half of 2020 the overall number of asylum applications dropped by 37 % compared to the same period in 2019.
Syrians and Afghans continued to lodge the most asylum applications, followed by Venezuelans and Colombians who suddenly started to lodge more applications after two months of very low levels indeed.