Brussels, 08/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - The latest annual report - for 2014 - from the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) published on Wednesday 8 July confirmed the record rise in asylum requests. More than 660,000 requests for international protection were received by the 28 EU member states, plus Norway and Switzerland. Of these, 128,000 were from Syrian nationals.
The 660,000 asylum applications is a 43% increase on 2013 and a record number since data were first gathered in 2008, EASO...