19/04/2018 (Agence Europe) – According to Eurostat statistics published on 19 April, EU member states granted protection to 538,000 asylum seekers in 2017. This figure is down by nearly 25% on 2016. Nearly a third of the people benefitting from this protection were, once again, Syrians (175,800 people, or 33% of the total number of people who obtained this protection status), followed by nationals from Afghanistan (100,700, or 19%) and from Iraq (64,300, or 12%). The number of...