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More than 300,000 first-time asylum seekers registered in EU in Q2

Xinhua, September 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Around 305,700 first-time asylum seekers applied for international protection in European Union (EU) member states in the second quarter this year, according to the EU's statistical office, Eurostat.

The number in the second quarter grew by 6.0 percent compared with the first quarter of 2016, when 287,100 new applicants were registered.

Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis represented the three main citizenships of first time asylum applicants in the EU member states over the second quarter 2016, accounting for almost 60 percent of all first time applicants.

During the second quarter 2016, the highest number of first time applicants was registered in Germany, with almost 187,000 applicants, or 61 percent of total first time applicants in EU member states.

At the end of June 2016, almost 1.1 million applications for asylum protection in EU member states were under consideration by national authorities. A year earlier, at the end of June 2015, there were around 633,000. Endit