Brussels, 18/09/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 18 September, the European Union's official statistics office, Eurostat, indicated that there were over 210,000 first-time asylum seekers in the EU in the second quarter of 2015 (April to June) up by 15% compared with the first quarter of 2015 and by 85% compared with the second quarter of 2014.
According to a Eurostat press release, the third of these new asylum seekers come from Syria or Afghanistan. “ In particular, the number of Syrians...