During the first three months of the year, almost 124,000 citizens from outside the European Union were forced to leave one of the EU bloc countries. France, Germany and Spain were the countries that issued the most orders in this regard, while Portugal was the second EU country that expelled the fewest non-European citizens.

“In the first quarter of 2025, 123,905 citizens from outside the European Union were forced to leave an EU country,” Eurostat reports.

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“Among the non-EU citizens forced to leave an EU country during this period, the majority were citizens of Algeria (9,995), followed by citizens of Morocco (7,450) and Syria (6,915),” the statistics office details.

On the other hand, among the various member states that make up the EU bloc, France (34,545), Germany (17,915) and Spain (16,705) were the ones that expelled the most non-EU citizens at the beginning of this year.

Slovakia, Portugal and Slovenia were the countries that issued the fewest such orders during the first three months of the year. In these countries, and up until March, fewer than 200 non-EU citizens had been expelled.