Check out this BBC news article series on the who, what, when, where and why of EU asylum
Check out this @BBCNews article series on the who, what, when, where and why of EU #asylum http://t.co/YAjXSymlNH pic.twitter.com/vNvZLfcKOV — ECRE (@ecre) January 6, 2015 How many asylum applications are successful? There were 435,760 asylum claims in the EU in 2013 - a 30% rise on 2012. At the end of 2013, more than 352,000 were awaiting a decision on their asylum application. Germany had the highest number of asylum claims - a quarter of the total. In 2013 about one-third of asylum claims in the EU were successful. The highest recognition rates were for Syrians, Eritreans and stateless refugees. Fewer than 100,000 Syrians have been given asylum in the EU, the European Commission says. In the first half of 2014 countries in southern Europe received 60,800 asylum requests - a 73% increase on the same period of 2013. Most of the claims were made in Italy and Turkey, the UNHCR reports. read more here in the repor...