Brussels, 08/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - According to a Eurostat report published on Tuesday 8 December, during activities for Human Rights Day on 10 December, EU27 member states granted protection to 76,300 asylum seekers in 2008. The largest groups of beneficiaries of protection status in the EU27 were citizens of Iraq (16,600 persons or 22% of the total number of persons granted protection status), Somalia (9,500 or 12%), Russia (7,400 or 10%), Afghanistan (5,000 or 7%) and Eritrea (4,600...