From the beginning of January to the end of October, 937 thousand asylum applications were filed in the EU. This is by 22 percent more than in the same period last year. Germany is the leader in the number of asylum seekers, DW writes, UNN informs.
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The head of the EU Asylum Agency, Nina Gregory, in an interview with in an interview with the Funke Group's publications said that in October alone there were about 123 thousand applications for asylum in October alone, which is a record for the last 7 years. According to her estimates that in 2023, the total number of refugee applications in the EU will be "definitely more than one million".
In the Germany is the first country where refugees seek protection.
The Federal Federal Office for Migration and Refugees of Germany received more than 325 thousand applications from January to the end of November, which is 52 percent more than in the same period in 2022.
For example, in October, 27 percent of all applications in European countries were filed there. This is more than in France and Italy combined, although they rank second and third in terms of the share of applications received, respectively.