Brussels, 23/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - The number of asylum seekers in the EU was up in 2011, rising to 301,000 compared to 259,000 in 2010, according to a recent publication by Eurostat dated 23 March. According to the estimates, nearly 90% of these people were “first-time applicants”, whilst around 10% of them were making a subsequent application. In 2011, the Statistical Office of the EU continues, asylum seekers were mainly citizens of Afghanistan (28,000, or 9% of all applicants),...