In 2025, EU countries sent 111 708 outgoing requests to transfer the responsibility to examine asylum applications to other EU countries and implemented 16 620 outgoing transfers.
Compared with the previous year, this represents a decrease of 26% in requests (151 830 in 2024) and a 1% decrease in transfers (16 459 in 2024).
Dublin statistics provide information on the functioning of the Dublin system, which establishes which EU country is responsible for examining an asylum application. This article highlights key findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article.
Source datasets: migr_dubro and migr_dubto
The largest numbers of outgoing requests using the Dublin procedure were sent by Germany (35 933 requests), France (30 084) and Belgium (12 285), representing 70% of all outgoing requests in 2025. Latvia (23), Estonia (33) and Slovakia (49) sent the lowest number of outgoing requests.
The largest numbers of outgoing transfers were implemented by Germany (5 377 of such transfers), followed by France (3 881) and the Netherlands (1 865). By contrast, there were no outgoing transfers implemented by Ireland, and only 1 by Portugal and 2 by Spain.
Incoming Dublin requests down by 31% in 2025
Source datasets: migr_dubri and migr_dubti
In 2025, 115 625 incoming requests and 17 406 incoming transfers from other EU countries were recorded. Compared with 2024, incoming requests dropped by 31%, while incoming transfers went up slightly by 1%.
Italy received the largest number of incoming requests (24 152, Eurostat estimate), ahead of Germany (16 519), Croatia (12 358), Spain (10 684) and Greece (10 113), together representing 64% of all incoming requests in 2025. Estonia recorded the fewest incoming requests (88), followed by Ireland (133) and Czechia (290).
The largest numbers of incoming transfers were implemented by Germany (4 865), Spain (3 398) and France (2 201). Meanwhile, Ireland (10), Estonia (12) and Cyprus (22) reported the lowest numbers.
For more information
- Statistics Explained article on countries responsible for asylum applications (Dublin Regulation)
- Thematic section on asylum
- Database on asylum
- Interactive publication on migration and asylum in Europe – 2025 edition
Methodological notes
- The Dublin Regulation (EU) 604/2013 aims to reduce consecutive transfers of asylum seekers between EU countries and prevent abuse by submitting multiple asylum applications by one person. The main principle is that only one EU country is responsible for examining an asylum application by a non-EU citizen or a stateless person. This regulation was repealed on 14 May 2024 by Regulation (EU) 2024/1351, which will apply from 1 July 2026.
- If during the course of processing an application, the authorities in an EU country decide that the application should be dealt with in another EU country, the authorities of the former may make a request to the latter to take over the responsibility of the asylum application (and consequently take over the applicant). Accordingly, the ‘Dublin statistics' refer to outgoing requests (EU countries’ report requests sent out) and incoming requests (EU countries’ report requests received).
- The number of outgoing requests does not equal the number of incoming requests at the EU level, including transfer requests, due to possible administrative differences resulting from data compilation methods, as well as the timing of the recording of the requests.
- The final stage of the Dublin procedure, in case of acceptance of the request, is the transfer of the person from the requesting EU country to the EU country responsible.
- For the reference year 2025, data are missing for Italy (IT) and Iceland (IS). These have therefore been estimated using mirror Dublin statistics reported by other countries: incoming requests for IT and IS are estimated on the basis of outgoing requests reported by their partner countries, and outgoing requests for IT and IS are estimated based on incoming requests reported by their partner countries. The same approach is applied to data on transfers. EU aggregate was calculated using estimated data from Italy.
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| Zařazeno | pá 03.07.2026 11:07:00 |
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| Zdroj | Eurostat - news |
| Originál | ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=ddn-20260703-1 |
| lang | en |
| Autor | Eurostat |
