Spain was the third country of the European Union that further asylum requests received in 2023 (163,220) and the one that granted the least international protection, 12% of the applicants, which places it 30 points below the European average in terms of recognition rate.
They are data from annual report of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Assistance (CEAR), presented this Monday, which also alert of a 56% increase in the number of pending applications resolution in 2023: 191,095 people are waiting for a decision on which their lives depend,” reads the publication.
The applications for international protection migrant people who cannot return to their country because they are persecuted for different reasons (refugees) or because they would face serious harm in their country (subsidiary protection) they increased by 37.3% in 2023 until the highest figure in its historyall of this “despite the serious obstacles” that exist to access the procedure.
Spain, the country that has resolved the fewest asylum applications
The director of CEAR, Mónica López, has highlighted that, of the countries of the European Union, Spain is the third that received the most requests in 2023only behind Germany (351,510) and France (166,880), but this “contrasts” with its position in terms of its recognition rate.
Its about country that has resolved the fewest requests favorably in percentage terms, with an index that has fallen from 16.5% in 2022 to 12% in 2023, a percentage that the general director of CEAR, Mauricio Valiente, has described as “really low.”
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