Asylum Power to the EU doubled in 2015

luxembourg - The number of migrants has applied for asylum in the European Union has more than doubled last year to a record number of 1.26 million. This was reported by the European statistics agency Eurostat Friday.

Doubled the number of registered asylum seekers from Syria, 362. 800. The number of Afghan refugees almost quadrupled, to 178. 200. 121. 500 asylum requests from Iraqis asylum flow from that country seven times greater than in 2014. These are the three biggest groups within the overall flow of refugees to the EU.

More than a third of asylum applications was done in Germany. Hungary then gave up the main stream, with 14 percent of the applications, followed by Sweden (12 percent). More than 3 percent of asylum applications lodged in the Netherlands.