Number of asylum refugees
Dear European Asylum Support Office,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
The number of asylum refugees looking for protection from the European Union in 2021.
Yours faithfully,
Daniela Cerrato Pérez
Dear Ms. Cerrato Perez,
Thank you for your email, which was transferred to me to reply, as it is a
request for information.
Per our recently published [1]EUAA Asylum Report 2022, EU+ countries
(EU-27 together with Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland)
received approximately 648,000 applications for international protection
in 2021.
Kind regards,
Andrew McKinlay
Communications & Press Officer
European Union Agency for Asylum
Communications & Public Relations Unit (Executive Office)
Website: [2]https://euaa.europa.eu