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The report, which asserts that Europe is going through “a maritime refugee crisis of historic proportions,” notes that between January and June 2015, 137,000 refugees and migrants entered the European borders through the Mediterranean Sea. 68,000 of them have entered through Greece.

In 2015, 67,500 refugees and migrants have entered Italy through the Mediterranean. Though the two neighbouring countries have had almost equally many refugees entering Europe through their borders, they are not equally high asylum recipients. Greece has received 5,115 asylum applications while there have been 28,5000 in Italy so far this year.

While Greece and Italy are the most common points of entry, Germany and Sweden received 43% of the European Union’s total asylum applications. These are the two major “imbalances” the agency found in this study.

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