213,200 asylum applications in EU from April-June, up 85%

A migrant on crutches crosses the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija on September 18, 2015

BRUSSELS - The EU received 213,000 asylum applications from April to June this year, up 85 percent from the same period in 2014, with over one third coming from Syria or Afghanistan, official figures showed Friday.

Germany had the highest number of new applicants, with more than a third of the total for the EU, while Hungary was the country that received the most asylum applications relative to its population size, the EU's Eurostat statistics agency said.