article_snippet.sent: Five member states account for three-quarters of all asylum-seekers' under the present system.
article_snippet.sent: Under the Dublin regulations, refugees have to claim asylum in the first EU country refugees enter, and cannot pick and choose between member states.
article_snippet.sent: The majority of refugees arrive on Europe's southern shores after crossing the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: The border free Schengen Area means The border free Schengen Area can easily move onto to other EU countries, despite the EU's own rules on asylum-seekers.
article_snippet.sent: In 2014, Germany received 173,070 asylum applications, more than twice as many as any other EU country.
article_snippet.sent: In the same period, the UK received 31,260 applications, according to UN refugee agency.