{"id":407219,"date":"2025-09-08T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407219\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:09:10","slug":"france-and-spain-receive-more-refugees-than-germany-as-cases-drop-in-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407219\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Spain receive more refugees than Germany as cases drop in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Asylum applications to the European Union fell by 23 percent in the first six months of 2025, driven by a massive drop in Syrians seeking protection, the EU’s asylum agency said on Monday.\n <\/p>\n

Data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) showed Syrians lodged around 25,000 requests in the 27-nation bloc plus Switzerland and Norway (EU+), down 66 percent on the same period last year.<\/p>\n

“This remarkable reduction is hardly due to policy changes in the EU+,” EUAA said in a report, crediting instead the ouster of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n

“With the new Syrian authorities advocating for stability and reconstruction, many displaced Syrians have evidently become more hopeful about returning to rebuild their communities”.<\/p>\n

Syrians, who long accounted for the most applicants, were now the third largest group, behind Venezuelans and Afghans.<\/p>\n

In turn Germany was overtaken by France and Spain as the leading destinations for asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

In total EU+ countries received 399,000 asylum applications in the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO: What will happen to Germany\u2019s one million Syrians after Assad\u2019s fall?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Beset by economic and political turmoil at home, Venezuelans accounted for 49,000 of them.<\/p>\n

The overall decrease will be welcomed in Brussels, as the EU has been under pressure to clamp down on migration, following a souring of public opinion that has fuelled hard-right electoral gains in several member states.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the European Commission unveiled plans to make it easier to turn away asylum seekers and boost deportations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asylum applications to the European Union fell by 23 percent in the first six months of 2025, driven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-407219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115167426405371279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}