THIS week Hungary suspended its adherence to the Dublin regulation, which says that asylum-seekers’ claims must be processed in the first country they reach. The move came days after the Hungarians said they were building a four-metre-high fence on the border with Serbia. In the first three months of 2015, Hungary received 32,810 new asylum applications (70% of them from Kosovars), up from 2,735 a year ago. Germany takes in the most and Italy complains the loudest, but Hungary, followed by Sweden and Austria, has the largest number of asylum requests as a share of population.
CORRECTION: a previous version of this chart mistakenly identified the EU total figure as an average for EU countries. This has now been rectified.
