For the first time since 2015, Germany has lost leadership in the European Union in accepting refugees

Germany has ceased to be the leader of the European Union (EU) in terms of the number of asylum applications for migrants, moving to fourth place in the corresponding EU ranking. This was announced on April 19 by German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, quoted by the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

"In May 2025, the decree of the former Cabinet of Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany dated 2015, allowing asylum seekers to enter Germany, expired. Now they are deployed at the borders if they have already applied in other EU countries," the publication says.

The authors of the material note that according to new EU statistics for the first quarter of 2026, migration flows to Germany have significantly decreased. For the first time since 2015, Germany took the fourth position in terms of the number of granted shelters in Europe, losing the leading positions to France, Spain and Italy. "Газета.Ru ".

East Stream: escalation around Iran threatens Europe with a wave of refugees

If at least a tenth of the population of the republic leaves it, the region will face a large-scale crisis.

The British newspaper The Standart reported on February 10 that 65,922 migrants had arrived in Britain by boat across the English Channel since the beginning of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's term, breaking the record of his predecessor Boris Johnson and becoming the highest figure among all the country's prime ministers.