The European Union's statistics agency says that EU countries granted asylum to more than 330,000 applicants last year, as more than 1 million people arrived in search of sanctuary or jobs.
Eurostat said Wednesday that 333,350 people were granted international protection, a 72 percent increase over 2014.
Around half of them — 166,100 people — were Syrian citizens, while 27,600 came from Eritrea and 23,700 from Iraq.
Germany, Sweden, Italy and France approved most applications. Germany took in 60 percent of the Syrians, the agency says.
Eurostat did not say how many of the approved asylum applications were made before 2015, nor did it say how many applications from last year are still pending.
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