In the second quarter of 2015, Lithuania received 60 first time asylum applicants, or by 42% more compared with the previous quarter (45). The Q2 rate accounts for 21 asylum applicants per million inhabitants, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), said. Asylum applicants in Lithuania were mostly from Ukraine, Georgia, and India, writes LETA/ELTA. …read more
Source: The Baltic Course
