Over the project's lifetime, the project team investigated the scope, availability and comparability of quantitative data in the area of migration, integration and discrimination in Europe, studying available statistical data and data collection in 29 countries.

Eurostat states that around 15 000 fewer asylum applicants were registered in the EU27 during the first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009

According Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, the Commission is required to submit this first report to the European Parliament and the Council with a view to examining the dgree of progress in the implementation of the above Regulation.

This Eurostat Newsrelease is presenting an overview of the asylum trends in the EU27 for the year 2010.