Germany is no longer the European leader in the number of asylum applications

In Germany, in the first half of 2025, the number of asylum applications submitted – according to the report of the European Union agency for asylum (AUEA), in which “Welt am Sonntag” obtained insight. West Germany is no longer a European “asylum leader”. Spain leads in the EU, and France is right behind it.

From January 1 to June 30, 65,495 asylum applications were recorded in Germany, this means that there were 43 percent of them. less than in the first half of last year. Thus, Germany is no longer a European leader in terms of asylum reports, they are third in the EU.

In the first six months of 2025, the most applications were submitted in Spain (76 020) and France (75 428). Italy (62 534) is right behind Germany.

The inheritance applies to the entire EU and counted with it Switzerland and Norway. In the first two quarters of 2025, there were fewer applications in the area of ​​23 percent. compared to the same period in the previous year (just over 388 thousand).

In the entire EU, most people applying for asylum came from Venezuela. In the case of Germany, there are people with passports Afghanistan (22 percent), Syria (20 percent) and Turkey (11 percent)

The data cited by “Welt am Sonntag” come from a confidential – as the newspaper claims – AUEA report dated July 3.

Since October 2023, Germany has been conducting controls on the border with Poland, officially to stop illegal migration. The closer control results in an increased number of migrants turning to Poland trying to cross the border despite not meeting the conditions of entry and stay in Germany. May 8, i.e. two days after the sworn in Friedrich Merz as Chancellor, in Germany there were changes in the apprenticeship of asylum law. (PAP)

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