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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11283

27 March 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 40
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
45% increase in requests for asylum in industrialised world (UNHCR)

Brussels, 26/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - According to figures published by the UN on Thursday, asylum applications in the industrialised world soared by 45% in 2014, largely provoked by the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. These figures are close to the record numbers registered at the beginning of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The situation in these two countries has provoked the worst humanitarian crisis in our era, according to a declaration by the spokesperson for the UN High Commission for...

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