VOA: Over 7 thousand residents from Albania applied for asylum in Europe in 2024!

2025-03-06 14:58:43Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

VOA: Over 7 thousand residents from Albania applied for asylum in Europe in

The European Asylum Agency says in its newly published annual report that 7,325 citizens from Albania submitted an asylum application in a European Union country during 2024.

Citizens from Albania and Kosovo clearly top the list of asylum requests from other Western Balkan countries.

According to data from the European Asylum Agency, 6,791 citizens from Kosovo sought asylum in Europe, while 3,506 requests were submitted by citizens of North Macedonia, 3,227 from Serbia, 1,432 requests from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and 337 requests from Montenegro.

The number of asylum requests from Albanian citizens in European countries decreased compared to 2023, where according to data, there were 9,145 Albanian citizens who applied for asylum in one of the European Union countries.

France continues to be the most popular country for Albanian residents to seek asylum, followed by Germany, followed by the two neighboring countries Italy and Greece.

The European Asylum Agency's report says that in 2024, European Union countries received around one million asylum applications for the third consecutive year.

Meanwhile, according to data, at the end of 2024, there were about 4.4 million beneficiaries of temporary protection in European Union countries who had fled Ukraine, with half of them hosted in Germany and Poland, while the Czech Republic hosted more beneficiaries in relation to the number of its population.

The report's data shows a slight decrease in asylum requests compared to 2023, while Syrians were the most common group seeking protection in European Union countries, although during 2024 they submitted fewer applications than in 2023 after the fall of the Assad regime./ VOA


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