Portugal not attracting asylum seekers

By TPN/Lusa, in News · 26-03-2015 14:54:00 · 1 Comments

Portugal had the lowest rate of asylum requests in the European Union according to latest data released by Eurostat.

The year saw a major surge in the numbers requesting asylum and spiking at 44 percent year-on-year to represent a record number of 626,000 asylum seekers.

By country, Syria represented the largest single source country with 122,800 refugees, or 20 percent of the total seeking safe haven followed by Afghanistan, 41,300 or 7 percent and then Kosovo, 37,900 or 6 percent of the overall total.

