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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10346

29 March 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Number of asylum seekers in rich countries falls in 2010

Brussels, 28/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - The number of asylum seekers in the rich countries fell in 2010, particularly in the south of Europe, where the number of asylum seekers arriving from Africa and Asia was down by one third, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) announced on Monday. According to HCR figures, 358,800 people applied for asylum in 44 industrialised countries in 2010 (the 27 of the European Union plus Albania, Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Iceland,...

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