Albanians top Ireland's asylum seekers list

It is not only France worried about increasing the number of Albanian asylum seekers.

Ireland's prime minister, Leo Vardkar, has also drawn attention to this phenomenon, which stated that Albanian and Georgian citizens are the main driver in increasing the asylum requirements facing his country.

The chief of the Irish executive said that immigrants from both countries travel in many cases to Ireland with false documents.

Local media write that citizens of Albanian and Georgian nationalities are competing decisively with Syrians as well.

The government is adding controls to airports to stop them from coming here, and we have asked airlines to send them back in”, the prime minister said.

There are many ways to enter Ireland legally, so we will not tolerate them illegally, he added.

According to Eurostat data, 26% more Albanians sought asylum for the first time in one of the EU countries during the first 3 months 2019. /Tch