The Netherlands gave 6,100 people full refugee status last year, making it one of the most generous countries in the EU, according to figures from the European statistics office Eurostat.

France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Sweden all granted more asylum seekers refugee status than the Netherlands. The Netherlands honoured 52% of requests for asylum, compared with 28% in Europe as a whole.
In total, 76,300 people were given refugee status in Europe last year out of nearly 300,000 requests. Most came from Iraq (22%), followed by Somali (12%) and Russia (10%).