Asylum decisions in the EU-EU Member States granted protection to more than 330 000 asylum seekers in 2015-Half of the beneficiaries were Syrians

Met dank overgenomen van Eurostat (ESTAT) i, gepubliceerd op woensdag 20 april 2016.

The 28 Member States of the European Union (EU) granted protection status to 333 350 asylum seekers in 2015, an increase of 72% compared with 2014. Since 2008, a total of nearly 1.1 million asylum seekers have been granted protection status in the EU.

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