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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9165

1 April 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha/asylum
Requests for asylum in the EU in free fall

Brussels, 31/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - The UN High Commission for Refugees (HCR) report entitled “Asylum Requests in Industrialised Countries in 2005”, published in mid-March, says the number of asylum seekers, both in the 25 EU countries and in Europe as a whole, reached its lowest level last year since 1988. Requests for asylum in the European Union fell by 16% in 2005, compared with 2004. France continues to receive most asylum requests, roughly 50,000 in 2005. In second place comes...

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