Greece received 9,310 applications for asylum from migrants in 2011, the most coming from Pakistan (25 percent), Georgia (12 percent) and Afghanistan (7 percent), according to a report on "Asylum in the EU 27" released by Eurostat which was released at the weekend, while the total number of asylum applications registered in in the 27 EU member states rose to 201,000. Greece examined a total 8,760 asylum applications in 2011, of which 180 were approved and 8,490 were rejected, Eurostat said.
According to Eurostat: In 2011, there were 301 000 asylum applicants registered in the EU27. It is estimated that around 90% of these were new applicants and around 10% were repeat applicants. In 2010, there were 259 000 asylum applicants.
In 2011, the main countries of citizenship of these applicants were Afghanistan (28,000 or 9% of the total number of applicants), Russia (18,200 or 6%), Pakistan (15,700 or 5%), Iraq (15 200 or 5%) and Serbia (13,900 or 5%).
In 2011, the highest number of applicants was registered in France (56,300 applicants), followed by Germany (53,300), Italy (34,100), Belgium (31,900), Sweden (29,700), the United Kingdom (26,400), the Netherlands (14,600), Austria (14,400), Greece (9,300) and Poland (6,900). These ten Member States accounted for more than 90% of applicants registered in the EU27 in 2011.
When compared with the population of each Member State, the highest rates of applicants registered were recorded in Malta (4,500 applicants per million inhabitants), Luxembourg (4,200), Sweden (3,200), Belgium (2,900) and Cyprus (2,200).
In some Member States, a large proportion of the applicants came from a single country. The Member States with the highest concentrations were Poland (63% of the applicants came from Russia), Latvia (52% from Georgia), Luxembourg (44% from Serbia), Lithuania (43% from Georgia), Bulgaria (39% from Iraq) and Hungary (38% from Afghanistan)." (AMNA)
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