Current situation of refugees arriving in Europe
An increasing number of people from areas of conflict are currently searching protection in the European Union. Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing from war, from violence and from oppression, are leaving their lands and are accepting the enormous risk of the dangerous and hard flight to Europe. UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warns of dangerous new era in worldwide displacement as report shows almost 60 million people forced to flee their homes.
In 2015, many European states, especially Germany, Hungary, Sweden and Austria, have registered more asylum application than in the last decade and the current numbers are the highest since 2001. In this context, recent analyses of the asylum statistics indicate an unequal distribution of asylum application across different European countries.
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