International Migration and Asylum

Recent migration trends: citizens of EU-27 Member States become ever more mobile while EU remains attractive to non-EU citizens - Issue number 98/2008 (Statistics in Focus, released on 18 November 2008)
40% of immigrants who settled in the EU27 were citizens of EU27 Member States (News Release, released on 18 November 2008)
Acquisition of citizenship in the European Union - Issue number 108/2008 (Statistics in Focus, released on 10 December 2008)
EU27 Member States granted citizenship to 735 000 persons in 2006 (News Release, released on 10 December 2008)