"This year we are seeing a tendency towards an increase in migration to the EU," RIA Novosti quoted Gregory as saying.
According to her, in August this year, the EU countries recorded about 56 thousand applications for international protection.
“In terms of the number of applications for asylum, we have almost reached the level that was before the coronavirus,” said Gregory.
She noted that in 2021 there was an increase in the number of asylum seekers in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, and we are also talking about Austria, and Latvia and Lithuania have become "migration hotspots".
On October 7, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ilva Johansson said that the European Union had received 22,000 Afghans who left the country.