{"id":314251,"date":"2024-01-22T12:11:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T11:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/01\/22\/quasi-115-mila-domande-asilo-ue-palestina\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T18:32:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:32:41","slug":"nearly-115000-asylum-applications-in-eu-in-october-applicants-from-palestinian-territories-double-compared-to-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/01\/22\/nearly-115000-asylum-applications-in-eu-in-october-applicants-from-palestinian-territories-double-compared-to-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 115,000 asylum applications in EU in October. Applicants from Palestinian territories double compared to 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – In a world torn apart by deepening wounds and new tensions, more people are fleeing their countries and seeking refuge in Europe. Almost\u00a015,000 people sought asylum<\/strong>\u00a0for international protection in EU countries in October 2023, up 17 percent from the same period of the previous year.\u00a0According to\u00a0monthly data<\/a> published today (January 22) by Eurostat,\u00a0there were 114,830 first-time asylum seekers, down from 97,980 in October 2022. There were also 6,225 subsequent applicants<\/a>, a 2 percent decrease from a year ago.<\/p>\n

On the other hand,\u00a0the most registered nationality is steady: as in previous months, in October 2023, Syrians continued to comprise the largest group<\/strong> of asylum seekers – 24,330 first-time applicants. Turks (15,630) follow, then Afghans (9,900), Venezuelans (5,070), and Colombians (4,835).<\/p>\n

Compared to October 2022, asylum applications from the Palestinian territories<\/strong> increased by over 100 percent, from 640 to 1345. In early January, the EU Court of Justice\u00a0issued<\/a> an opinion according to which stateless Palestinians who claim refugee status in EU countries – who until now were almost always denied international protection because they were already under the protection of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)- can now state that UNRWA protection has “ceased”<\/strong>, in light of living conditions in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

Compared to previous months, in October 2023, Germany (34,000), Italy (14,950), France (14,900), and Spain (12,505) continued to receive the highest number of first-time asylum seekers, accounting for 66 percent of the total in EU countries<\/strong>. Compared to the population of each EU country, the highest rate of registered first-time applicants was in Cyprus (1,188 per million people), Austria (1,050), and Greece (959). In contrast, the lowest rate was\u00a0in Hungary (0.3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syrian nationals still the largest group, followed by Turks, Afghans, Venezuelans and Colombians. In October 2022 there were 640 asylum seekers from the Palestinian territories, now there are 1345<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":314146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26468,25794,26106],"class_list":["post-314251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314251"}],"version-history":[{"count":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328962,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314251\/revisions\/328962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}