Dublin System 2024 in Review: Fewer Requests, Comparable Transfers

In 2024, EU countries sent 151 830 outgoing requests to transfer the responsibility to examine asylum applications to other EU countries, and implemented 16 455 outgoing transfers. 

Compared with the previous year, this represents a decrease of approximately 19% in requests (186 910 in 2023) and 3% in transfers (16 869 in 2023).

Dublin statistics provide information on the functioning of the Dublin system, which establishes which EU country is responsible for examining an asylum application.

The largest numbers of outgoing requests using the Dublin procedure were sent by Germany (74 581), France (30 986) and Belgium (12 501), representing 78% of all outgoing requests in 2024. The lowest numbers recorded were sent by Latvia (32), Spain (52) and Slovakia (66).

The largest numbers of outgoing transfers were implemented by Germany (5 827), followed by France (2 624) and the Netherlands (2 245). By contrast, Spain (2), Portugal (3) and Ireland (6) reported the lowest numbers of outgoing transfers.

In 2024, 167 561 incoming requests and 16 828 incoming transfers from other EU countries were recorded.

Italy received the largest number of incoming requests (42 807), ahead of Croatia (23 721) and Greece (17 163), which in total represented 50% of all incoming requests in 2024.

Ireland recorded the fewest incoming requests (92), followed by Estonia (129) and Slovakia (232).

The largest numbers of incoming transfers were implemented by Germany (4 591), France (2 201) and Croatia (1 698). Meanwhile, Estonia (6), Cyprus (9) and Ireland (14) reported the lowest numbers.

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