Brussels, 28/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - Requests for asylum in Europe increased by 8% between August-September 2002 but fell by 6% between 2001-2002 (for the months of January and September), according to statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Between January-September 2001-2002, with four countries in the lead, to which the United Kingdom should certainly be added, which occupied first place in 2001 with 67,210 requests but for whom statistics for 2002 are not...