Prague, Aug 6 (CTK) – The Czech Republic is one of the EU countries with the smallest number of asylum applicants as the Interior Ministry only registered 784 applications in the first six months of the year, according to the data of the Eurostat and reports of the Czech and Austrian interior ministries.
In the same time, Hungary recorded 85 times more refugees, Austria 36 times, Switzerland 15 times and Bulgaria nine times more of them.
Fewer refugees than in the Czech Republic are seeking shelter in the Baltic countries, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Between 1990 and mid-2015, the total number of asylum applications in the Czech Republic reached 94,153.
Foreigner police head Milan Majer said the police were detaining roughly 40 foreigners who tried to get into the Czech Republic illegally a day.
Majer said on Wednesday that since June 17, the police had detained 1050 refugees, mostly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Only four of them wanted to stay in the Czech Republic.
Under the Dublin Regulation, the Czech Republic returns the detained refugees to the country in which they asked for asylum. The Czech Republic also sends the foreigners back to the state from which they came to it.
On Wednesday, Interior Ministry officials said a mere one-tenth of the detained persons were being sent back to Hungary. This is why they want to speak with their Hungarian counterparts about the problem.
In June, the Czech Republic received 105 applications for international protection. The biggest number, 176, was reached in March.
By contrast, Hungary registered 16,580 applicants in June, Austria 7538, Germany 35,445, Belgium 2896, Bulgaria 1630, the Netherlands 3085, Poland 860, Sweden 6625 and Switzerland 3805.
In Estonia, foreigners filed 25 applications and in Lithuania ten
