Brussels, 10/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - More than 410,000 (413,800 exactly) first-time asylum seekers registered in the third quarter of 2015, according to an announcement from Eurostat on Thursday 10 December. This number was almost double that for the third quarter of 2014.
During the third quarter of 2015, the number of Syrians and Iraqis seeking international protection has more than tripled compared with the previous quarter to reach almost 138,000 and 44,500 respectively; while the...