Almost half of all asylum applications last year were from countries with low recognition rates, according to figures from the Malta-based European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA).
The significance of the finding comes at a time when new EU laws, set to enter into force next year, aim to fast-track nationalities with a 20-percent or lower asylum recognition rat...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.