Applications for asylum in the European Union in 2022 almost doubled compared with the previous year. Every third applicant came from Syria. People seeking protection submitted 923,991 applications for asylum in the European Union (EU) in 2022 – marking a 46.6% increase from the previous...

Greece has pleaded for help from EU neighbours and the UK in tackling the number the migrants trying to reach the its territory. The country is expanding a border wall that it hopes will deter some of the migrants but says it wants help from other EU nations. Greece prevented about...

Turkey’s far-right Victory Party has launched a fundraising campaign promising to spend the cash on bus tickets it says will be used to deport Syrian refugees. "Ticket sales for Zafer Tourism's one-way trips to Damascus have begun," the party's chairman Umit Ozdag tweeted on Monday. Zafer...

The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday. Almost half of the 2022 attempts were made over land through the Western Balkans region,...