WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1356/97 by Nel van DIJK to the Commission. Requests for asylum by EU subjects in other Member States
Date: 1997-04-21
Institutions: European Parliament, VAN DIJK
Subjects: EU Member State, EU national, Eurostat, census, nationality, right of asylum













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1356/97 by Nel van DIJK to the Commission. Requests for asylum by EU subjects in other Member States  


Official Journal C 373 , 09/12/1997 P. 0110 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-1356/97 by Nel van Dijk (V) to the Commission (21 April 1997)Subject: Requests for asylum by EU subjects in other Member StatesHow many subjects of EU Member States have requested asylum in other EU Member States in the last five years?In how many cases was asylum granted?Can the number of requests for asylum by subjects of EU Member States be broken down in table form showing, for each host Member State, the origins of the asylum seekers?Can the number of requests for asylum from subjects of EU Member States that have been granted be broken down in table form showing, for each host Member State, the origins of these refugees?Can the Commission also provide information on the commonest forms of persecution in respect of which requests are made, and granted, for asylum?In how many cases and in what Member States have requests for asylum been submitted by Spanish subjects suspected by the Spanish authorities of involvement in terrorist activities?In how many cases, and in what Member States, has asylum been granted to Spanish subjects suspected by the Spanish authorities of involvement in terrorist activities?Answer given by Mrs Gradin on behalf of the Commission (16 May 1997)It should be noted that Member States, as set out in the Council Resolution of 20 June 1995 on minimum guarantees for asylum procedures ((OJ C 274, 19.9.1996. )), start from the point of view that, 'with due regard to the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention, there should be no de facto or de jure grounds for granting refugee status to an asylum applicant who is a national of another Member State. On this basis, a particularly rapid or simplified procedure will be applied to the application for asylum lodged by a national of another Member State ...'.The information provided by Member States to the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) confirm that the number of asylum applicants of nationals of Member States in other Member States is extremely low. The figures are available up to 1994 and show that:- in 1992, four nationals of the then twelve Member States applied for asylum in another Member State: three in Belgium and one in Denmark ((European Commission, Migration statistics 1994, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1994. ));- in 1993, thirteen nationals of Member States applied for asylum in another Member State: six in Belgium, two in Denmark, four in Spain and one in Portugal ((European Commission, Migration statistics 1995, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1995. ));- in 1994, one national of a Member State applied for asylum in Italy ((European Commission, Migration statistics 1996, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1996. )).The information available to Eurostat does not, however, indicate the Member States of which the above-mentioned asylum-seekers are nationals, nor the outcome of each individual asylum application by the people concerned. These figures do not reveal either the forms of persecution in respect of which the requests were made.