Brussels: The EU received 213,000 asylum applications from April to June this year, a jump of 85 percent from the same period in 2014, with over one third coming from Syria or Afghanistan, official figures showed Friday, report international news agencies..
Germany had the highest number of new applicants, with more than a third of the total for the EU, while Hungary was the country that received the most asylum applications relative to its population size, the EU’s Eurostat statistics agency said.Applications from Kosovo, regarded as a “safe” country by most of the EU, dropped sharply in the period, from the top berth with 50,000 requests in the first quarter to just over 10,000 one quarter later. Germany received 80,900 first time applicants in the second quarter of 2015, or 38 percent of the EU total, followed by Hungary on 32,700, or 15 percent. Eurostat said Hungary processed 3,317 applicants per million inhabitants in the second quarter, more than triple the intake in Germany, with 997 requests per million.
Syrian crises opened gates for asylum seekers world over and Afghans got this opportunity and also reached Middle East from where they are reaching Europe. According to certain reports, majority of Afghans those are reaching Europe are same who went to Syria for Jihad. Afghans are known for asylum seeking or for living illegally wherever there is possibility.
Thousands of Syrian and Iraqi who are actually displaced due to Syrian war have opted dangerous option to reach Europe via sea in feeble boats and hundreds of them have died during such voyages but influx from Middle East to Europe is not stopped. Â Eastern Europe is under serve pressure of asylum seekers since early months of year 2015 but now crises has intensified during the last two months. European countries are blaming Germany for invitation to asylum seekers while Germans are also not happy with such situation but decisions were taken politically and common people are not supporting such heavy influx of people from Middle East.
