Greece recorded the highest per-capita rate of asylum applications among EU+ countries in the first half of 2026, even as the number of applications across Europe fell to its lowest first-half level in years, according to a report by the European Union Agency for Asylum.

The number of asylum applications in the EU, as well as in Norway and Switzerland, fell again in the first half of this year.

Asylum applications to the EU dropped to a five-year-low in the first half of 2026, continuing a downward trend partly brought about by a hardening of migration policy, the bloc's…