{"id":770191,"date":"2026-02-17T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/770191\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:22:12","slug":"asylum-applications-in-november-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/770191\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum applications in November 2025 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In November 2025, 54 825 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Asylum_applicant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-time asylum applicants<\/a> (non-EU citizens) applied for <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Application_for_international_protection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international protection<\/a> in <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> countries, marking a 26% decrease compared with November 2024 (74 495) and a 12% decrease compared with October 2025 (62 375).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">There were also 11 455 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Repeated_applicant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subsequent applicants<\/a>, representing a 62% increase compared with November 2024 (7 090) and a 23% decrease compared with October 2025 (14 900).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This information comes from the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/migration-asylum\/asylum\/database?node_code=migr_asyapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">monthly data<\/a> published by Eurostat today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/23010697\/first-subsequent-asylum-applications-january-2021-november-2025.jpg\/a875df6c-2913-5057-68b5-43a57334b7d7?t=1771237127036\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"First-time and subsequent asylum applicants in the EU, January 2021 - November 2025 (number of applicants). Double line chart. Link to full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/first-subsequent-asylum-applications-january-2021-november-2025.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/d0c05817-84e1-4aa9-a187-ff58f8ee6aef?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-09-09T10:05:26Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">migr_asyappctzm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Largest group of asylum seekers from Venezuela<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In November 2025, Venezuelans were the largest group of people seeking asylum (8 060 first-time applicants), followed by Afghans (5 125), Bangladeshis (3 585) and Syrians (2 365).<\/p>\n<p>Italy, Spain, France and Germany received 76% of first-time applicants<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Italy (12 195), Spain (11 875), France (8 845) and Germany (8 740) received the highest number of first-time asylum applicants, accounting for 76% of all first-time applicants in the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">There were 12.2 first-time asylum applicants per hundred thousand people in the EU in November 2025. Compared with the population of each EU country (on 1 January 2025), the highest rates of first-time applicants were recorded in Greece (42.4), ahead of Spain (24.2) and Italy (20.7).<\/p>\n<p>1 370 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/23010697\/unaccompanied-minors-november-2025.jpg\/99fd404d-04a2-48a8-2070-875cc4dadce4?t=1771237127613\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unaccompanied minors in the EU, November 2025 (number of applicants applying for asylum for the first time). Double bar chart. Link to full dataset below. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unaccompanied-minors-november-2025.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/31588801-d81c-423a-b5e3-0e97ff2562c2?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-12-05T14:40:20Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">migr_asyumactm<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In November 2025, a total of 1 370 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum for the first time in the EU. The highest numbers of unaccompanied minors came from Somalia (245), Eritrea (160), Afghanistan and Venezuela (each 135), and Egypt (130).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The EU countries that received the highest number of asylum applications from unaccompanied minors were the Netherlands (375), Germany (265), Greece (185), Spain (155) and Belgium (95).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In November 2025, 54 825 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, marking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5108,64410,2000,299,5187,120044,120045,64411],"class_list":["post-770191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-asylum","tag-data-driven-news","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-migr","tag-migr_child","tag-population-and-social-conditions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116085480403625939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770191","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=770191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}