Italy returned 10 pct of failed asylum requests in 2022: EU data
STORY: Italy returned 10 pct of failed asylum requests in 2022: EU data
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 19, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 20, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:53
LOCATION: Rome
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of screenshots of the Commission's Atlas of Migration
2. various of migrants in Rome
STORYLINE:
Italy repatriated almost 10 percent of asylum seekers last year, data released Monday by the European Commission showed.
The latest edition of the Commission's Atlas of Migration showed that Italy repatriated 2,790 out of 28,185 migrants whose asylum requests were turned down. Meanwhile, the average repatriation rate in the European Union (EU) as a whole was 17 percent.
EU data showed that the bloc received a total of 884,985 new asylum applications for international protection in 2022, up by nearly 65 percent from the previous year. More than half of all asylum requests in the bloc were rejected last year.
The 2022 repatriation rate in Italy is slightly higher than the previous year (9 percent), but remains lower th
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