More than a million refugees and migrants applied for asylum in Europe in 2015, a record number that is a 122 percent increase versus the previous year, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.
The European Union, Norway and Switzerland received 1.3 million asylum applications last year, with around half of all applicants originating from three countries: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. The number of asylum applications in 2015 is the highest since 1985 and nearly double the previous peak years of 1992—after the fall of the Berlin Wall—and 2002, which saw the aftermath of the Kosovo conflicts. The …read more
Source: Newsweek
