CzechRep deals with more international protection seekers in 2018

The number of foreigners asking for international protection, asylum or complementary protection, in the Czech Republic rose last year, while dropping across the Visegrad Four countries, a People in Need NGO's analysis released on Thursday showed. The applications across the V4 were down by an annual one-third, mainly because of significantly fewer cases in Poland and Hungary, while Slovakia also had to deal with an increase. Most of the applicants were from Eastern Europe.