Asylum Seekers

The Commission is supporting EU countries at the forefront of the refugee crisis with grants from the EU Health Programme of over €5.5 million. This money will help address the common health challenges in the most affected Member States. A grant to the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) will be used for testing a personal […]

EU member states granted protection to more than 185,000 asylum seekers in 2014, an increase of almost 50{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} compared with 2013. Since 2008, more than 750,000 asylum seekers have been granted protection status in the EU. To download the publication, click here on http://ec.europa.eu