Apnews.com: Applications for asylum in Europe drop sharply amid pandemic - EASO noted that despite the virus crisis, national asylum authorities “showed resilience in sustaining many activities, resulting in a decrease in backlogs of pending applications.''
Lefigaro.fr: European Union: Asylum applications have fallen by 31% due to the pandemic - Asylum applications in the European Union fell by 31% in 2020, reaching their lowest level since 2013,"mainly due to movement restrictions" linked to the pandemic, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) said on Thursday (February 18th).
Euobserver.com: Asylum applications at lowest since 2013 - The EU's asylum support agency, Easo, on Thursday said applications for asylum in the EU (plus Norway and Switzerland) last year were at the lowest levels since 2013.
Spiegel.de: EU agencies warn of more refugees - The main reason given by EASO was the “poor economic and medical situation in the countries of origin”.
Europapress.es: Spain establishes with the European Asylum Office the work phases to improve the Spanish reception system - The Spanish ambassador to Malta, Consuelo Femenía, has also attended this meeting, during which the teams from EASO and the Secretary of State for Migration have identified the main areas of support and priorities for the Plan.
eldiario.es: The new migration policy of the EU allows the blocking of people in the Canary Islands for six months - In particular, according to the November 2020 data from the European Asylum Support Office , the recognition rates for Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal and Nigeria, among others, were below 20%.
Politico.eu: A problem re-measured - According to numbers from the EU’s Asylum Support Office (EASO), to be published later today and previewed by Playbook, 461,300 applications were lodged in 2020, compared to 671,200 the year before. That’s the lowest number since 2013.
Euractiv.de: Vision of a red Europe - The European support office for asylum issues should be expanded into a fully-fledged European asylum agency.
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