MURMANSK (Sputnik) — Most applicants during the period of 2015-16 are said to be from Iraq, with the subsequent largest numbers of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria.
"During last year and this year, about 9,000 applicants have received a negative asylum decision and about 6,000 [received] a positive decision," the press release read.
Europe has been beset by a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their crisis-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa to escape violence and poverty in stable EU states, such as Finland. According to the Finnish Interior Ministry, a total of 32,476 asylum seekers entered the country in 2015.
In 2015, Finland received 32,500 refugees, most of them – 20,485 — came from Iraq.
