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Another 22,000 Albanians applied for asylum in 2017 triggering concern on economy

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TIRANA, March 20 – The number of first-time Albanian asylum seekers to EU member countries dropped by about a quarter to 22,000 in 2017, but Albanians continued remaining on the top 10 list of asylum applicants by country of citizenship for the third year in a row in a ranking dominated by war-torn Asian and African countries. A report published this week by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, shows France emerged as the top destination for Albanian asylum seekers, overtaking Germany, the top destination of the overwhelming majority of Albanian asylum applicants in the previous three years. First-time Albanian asylum-seekers…

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  • The high number of asylum seekers in the past four years, the ongoing legal migration and a sharp decline in birth rates have sparked concerns over a rapidly shrinking population with negative impacts for the country’s developing economy of 2.8 million residents, already suffering one of the world’s highest per capita migration with 1.5 million Albanians living and working abroad

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