{"id":6452,"date":"2023-09-06T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/facts4eu.com\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2023-09-06T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T05:50:00","slug":"eus-asylum-problem-spirals-upwards-as-record-numbers-are-reported-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facts4eu.com\/2023\/09\/06\/eus-asylum-problem-spirals-upwards-as-record-numbers-are-reported-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s asylum problem spirals upwards as record numbers are reported in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"140.65518856875\">\n                                <a name=\"body\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Latest EU report for first half of 2023 will make troubling reading for UK Home Sec Braverman<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/facts4eu.org\/static\/media\/more_asylum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\"><\/p>\n<p>Montage \u00a9 Facts4EU.Org 2023<\/p>\n<h3>Brexit Facts4EU.Org analyses the latest EU data just released<\/h3>\n<p>Yesterday the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) released its report for the first half of 2023. With the EU Commission seemingly unable for years to reach any form of consensus in how to deal with this, the numbers just keep on growing.<\/p>\n<p>Facts4EU.Org has regularly reported on the EU\u2019s spiralling problem of asylum applications. This is now reaching crisis point, as the numbers look like they might threaten the levels in the record period of 2015-2016, when Angela Merkel unilaterally opened the EU\u2019s doors to migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Suella Braverman and her Home Office civil servants must now be watching this nervously, knowing that the more migrants who enter through the EU\u2019s porous borders, the more will end up attempting the crossing to the UK in small boats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"facts4eu-summary-red\" readability=\"14\">\n<h3>Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary<\/h3>\n<p>EU asylum applications Jan-Jun 2023<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>519,000 asylum applications received from Jan-Jun 2023<\/li>\n<li>\nThis is a 28% increase on the first six months of last year<\/li>\n<li>\nThis number does not include the 4m Ukrainians who have a different asylum process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Source: EUAA report, 05 Sept 2023.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/facts4eu.org\/static\/media\/eu_asylum_20230906.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/facts4eu.org\/static\/media\/eu_asylum_20230906.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Brexit Facts4EU.Org 2023 &#8211; click to enlarge<\/p>\n<p>FACTS4EU.ORG PREDICTION for end-2023 : 1.25 million<br \/>\n<span>(Based on previous years&#8217; patterns)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Highest levels for some countries for over eight years<\/h3>\n<p>During the initial six months of 2023, the EU+EEA received an exceptional 519,000 asylum applications, marking the highest figure since 2016. It is the second-highest count on record and it represents the continuation of a clear, upward trend. For many nationalities the numbers exceed 2016 levels by a long way.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the volume of applications tends to be significantly higher in the second half of the year. If this pattern is repeated this year, then <b>Brexit Facts4EU.Org predicts more than 1.25m asylum applications will be received in the EU by the end of the year<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Germany, Spain and France accounted for 63% of the total<\/li>\n<li>\nGermany\u2019s number (30%) was almost double that of the next two countries <\/li>\n<li>\nSpain (17%)<\/li>\n<li>\nFrance (16%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem is backing up. Germany currently has 177,000 applications already pending.<\/p>\n<div class=\"facts4eu-summary-navy\" readability=\"5.858606557377\">\n<div class=\"row\" readability=\"19\">\n<p>We&#8217;re now so close to the full funding for completing &#8216;The Independence Documentary&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-3\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/facts4eu.org\/static\/media\/alex_phillips_2_sml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>We just need to raise the last \u00a36,000 for the &#8216;post-production editing&#8217;. 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The big launch to the public and the media is set for <b>02 October<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-3\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/facts4eu.org\/static\/media\/cibuk-thermometer-20230812-121x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"248\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" readability=\"8.4217877094972\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\" readability=\"12.164804469274\">\n<p>Our presenter Alex will be known to many readers as an ex-GB News presenter and a frequent sight on everything from Question Time to Talk TV.  We&#8217;ve finished filming &#8211; now we have the difficult task of editing by our professional production team, if we can get some extra funding. This is going to be big!\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Please help today if you can: <a href=\"https:\/\/facts4eu.org\/news\/2023_jun_docu_update\" target=\"_blank\">click here to read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Where are they coming from?<\/h3>\n<p>The upswing in applications is particularly pronounced for some specific citizenships. <\/p>\n<p><b>Syrian<\/b> applications in the first half of 2023 exceeded the first six months of any year since the 2015-16 refugee crisis. <b>Afghan<\/b> applications have been climbing steadily to the second highest-ever level during the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n<p><b>Venezuelans, Colombians, and Peruvians<\/b> all lodged record-high numbers of applications, and are expected to be the highest ever by year end. Last year, <b>Turkish<\/b> applications were more than double those of any previous year. On top of this, 2023 is projected to see an even greater number of Turkish applications.<\/p>\n<p><b>Iranian and Russian<\/b> applications more or less doubled compared to the same period in 2022. Last year <b>Pakistani<\/b> numbers hit their highest level since 2016. This is likely to be exceeded in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><b>Moroccans and Bangladeshis<\/b> lodged record high numbers of applications in 2022, with 2023 projected to continue this upward trend. <b>Guinea and the Ivory Coast<\/b> also started to figure prominently this year. Ivorians lodged a record number of applications for this time of year, and were nearly as many as in the whole of 2022.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"72.408602150538\">\n<h3 class=\"uppercase\">Observations<\/h3>\n<p>The numbers we have quoted from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) report yesterday do not include all migrants. These numbers only show those who have chosen to enter the asylum system. A great many more entered the EU in the first half of this year, but some (no-one knows how many) have simply disappeared into the black economy or are encamped on northern French shores, waiting for small boats to take them to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>For years the EU Commission has been struggling unsuccessfully to agree an asylum policy with the EU member states. Unsurprisingly one of the issues is that of how to spread the problem around, with some countries being overloaded while others deal with very few. Numbers in countries such as Hungary are negligible, for example, with just 22 applying for asylum in the six months to June.<\/p>\n<p>The overall migrant situation is so bad that some months ago the EU Commission agreed a deal with the tyrannical dictatorship in Tunisia \u2013 a regime which is responsible for severe human rights abuses and which does not even come close to meeting the EU\u2019s standards for democracy and rule of law. Nevertheless the Commission has done a deal and has effectively bribed the Tunisian government with 1bn euros in an attempt to slow the increasing flows of migrants using this as their transit point into the EU.<\/p>\n<p>With new routes opening up regularly, it seems that this is a problem that can only get worse, as yesterday\u2019s report shows.<\/p>\n<p>We must get reports like this out there<\/p>\n<p>Reports like the one above take far longer to research, write and produce than many people realise. If they were easy, readers would see other organisations also producing these daily. 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