EU asylum applications down 23% with huge drop in Syrian requests in 2025 | Migration News

The European Union Agency for Asylum finds that in May only 3,100 Syrian applications were lodged.

New data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has found that asylum applications to the 27-nation bloc fell 23 percent during the first six months of 2025 after a significant drop in Syrians seeking asylum in Europe since the fall of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last December.

Syrians, who had been the largest group of asylum seekers in the past…