Publication date: 03 March 2026
The Latest Asylum Trends 2025 provides an annual overview of asylum activity in EU+ countries, covering asylum applications (per capita), the main nationalities of applicants, the top receiving countries, recognition rates, pending cases and the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection following the war in Ukraine. It also reviews policy developments in the EU+ and provides a 2026 outlook, examining, inter alia, geopolitical uncertainty and latent displacement risks.
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Main theme: International Protection, Temporary protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Latest Asylum Trends, EUAA, asylum applications, recognition rate, pending cases, displaced person, Ukraine, New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Publication date: 24 August 2025
This ad hoc query examines whether EMN Member and Observer Countries offer or intend to offer individual legal advice to applicants for international protection during the asylum procedure. It considers how the extent of need and allocation of resources are determined, whether certain sub-groups of applicants are distinguished, and what challenges and benefits arise from implementing such services.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: procedure for international protection, legal advice, counselling
Publication date: 28 February 2024
In its analysis of the Latest Asylum Trends for 2023, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) reports on the applications received in EU+ countries (i.e. the 27 European Union Member States, plus Norway and Switzerland) and the key nationalities that applied for international protection. The analysis also addresses new trends in pending cases as well as recognition rates across EU+ countries.
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Main theme: Asylum
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, EUAA, applicant for international protection, refugee crisis, Ukraine, temporary protection
Publication date: 06 October 2023
This ad hoc query addresses the human resource management strategies in Asylum and Dublin Units in EMN Member Countries. It provides information on the division of the workload between the different institutions involved in the asylum procedure within the EMN Member Countries, on the number of decisions issued as well as on the methodologies in place to ensure a sufficient number of employees to guarantee decision-making.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: asylum procedure, workload, asylum applications
Publication date: 04 July 2023
As the go-to source of information on international protection in Europe, the annual EUAA Asylum Report provides a comprehensive overview of key developments in asylum in Member States of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland (EU+ countries).
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Publication date: 30 March 2023
In the event of implicit withdrawal or abandonment of an asylum application, Art. 28 par. 2 of the directive 2013/32/EU allows Member States to determine in their legislation a time limit of at least nine months, after which the applicant’s case can no longer be reopened or the new application may be treated as a subsequent application. The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees launched an ad hoc query to enquire whether and how the Member States transposed this provision.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: asylum applications, withdrawal, subsequent application
Publication date: 01 December 2017
This EMN Policy Brief examines trends in applications for international protection and irregular movements of third-country national migrants across the EU and Norway. It focuses on the period 2012 - 2016 and – where data is available - up to August 2017. This is an update of the Policy Brief published in December 2015.
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Main theme: International Protection, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, Mediterranean, migratory route, secondary movement
Publication date: 06 January 2017
Le nombre de demandes d’asile introduites en Belgique en 2016 a diminué de plus de la moitié par rapport à l’année passée et le nombre de décisions prises par le CGRA a atteint un niveau record.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 05 January 2016
This EMN Policy Brief presents key data on the irregular movements of people across the EU external borders and within the European Union itself, whether as asylum-seekers or as migrants, over the past few years and including the first nine months of 2015.
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Main theme: Asylum, Irregular Migration, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, Mediterranean, migratory route, secondary movement
Publication date: 26 March 2015
The UNHCR Asylum Trends 2014 summarizes patterns and trends in the number of individual asylum claims submitted in 38 European States and 6 selected non-European countries during 2014. It reveals a sharp increase in the number of asylum-seekers registered during 2014.
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Publication date: 07 April 2014
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the year 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: third quarter 2013 (Eurostat)
Publication date: 23 December 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the third quarter of 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 13 November 2013
EASO published its second Quarterly Asylum Report of 2013, providing an overview of key asylum trends within the EU+ countries.
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Main theme: International Protection
Keywords: EASO, asylum applications, asylum decisions, European Asylum Support Office
Publication date: 10 October 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the second quarter of 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: first quarter 2013 (Eurostat)
Publication date: 08 August 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the first quarter of 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 05 July 2013
The Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) presented its annual report for the reference year 2012.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics, International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, CGRS
Publication date: 25 June 2013
In order to satisfy the large demand for detailed figures on asylum and migration, the Belgian Contact Point of the EMN compiled in August 2012 a series of figures on asylum and migration.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: asylum decisions, asylum applications, residence permit, forced return, voluntary return, work permit
Publication date: 14 May 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the year 2012 in the EU-27.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 13 December 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the third quarter of 2012 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 25 October 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the second quarter of 2012.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: first quarter 2012 (Eurostat)
Publication date: 02 August 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the first quarter of 2012.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 05 June 2012
On 5 June 2012, the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons presented its annual report for the reference year 2011.
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Publication date: 29 May 2012
This publication of the European Parliament shows the number of asylum seekers, where they seek asylum and where they come from as well as the number of first instance decisions on asylum in 2011
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 08 February 2012
This Eurostat publication provides an overview of asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications for the second quarter of 2011.
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Main theme: Asylum, International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, Eurostat
Publication date: 18 October 2011
UNHCR has just released its Statistical overview of asylum applications lodged in Europe and selected
non-European countries