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6.3 MILLION asylum applications from migrants to the EU27 in the last 10 years

“You will take in the migrants according to our rules,” says the EU Commission

Yesterday the EU Commission announced a plan of common rules for Member States. Despite measures by EU countries to prevent people from entering due to COVID restrictions, the latest official EU figures show that more than 275,000 asylum applications from migrants have been made so far this year.

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Asylum applications from migrants to the EU27

6,324,295 in the last 10 years
That’s equivalent to DOUBLE the populations of Newcastle, Sheffield, Liverpool, and Leeds - COMBINED
4,505,680 of these have happened in just the last five years
Despite COVID restrictions 275,435 asylum applications have been made so far this year
All the above figures relate only to asylum applications – not to all who have entered the EU

Failed asylum seekers – return rates

Among the nationalities with at least 5,000 return orders, the return rate was particularly low for those coming from:

Democratic Republic of the Congo (2.5%)
Syria (2.5%)
Mali (2.8%)
Guinea (2.8%)
Côte d'Ivoire (3.4%)
Somalia (4.0%)

Put another way, more than 95% of failed asylum seekers from these countries remain in the EU, despite having been told to leave.

The above figures do not include illegal migrants who have not applied for asylum

The official figures we have quoted above from the EU’s official statistics agency Eurostat do NOT include all those migrants who have entered the EU but who have not applied for asylum. The figures purely relate to asylum applications.

The current influx of migrants crossing the English Channel from France, as highlighted in recent months by Nigel Farage, have often avoided asylum applications in all the EU countries they have travelled through. Their desire is to have a better life in the United Kingdom, where many see the benefit system as being significantly more generous than those on offer in France and other EU27 countries.

The EU’s ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’

The EU has been trying and failing to solve its immigration, asylum and settlement problems for years. Yesterday the EU Commission led by unelected EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced details of its ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’.

Given the widely divergent views of several countries, it seems highly likely that there will continue to be opposition to the Commission’s moves.

Increased control from Brussels Centre

This new Pact includes a Qualification Directive, Reception Conditions Directive, EU Asylum Agency Regulation, Union Resettlement Framework and Return Directive. As with all EU policies, Rules, and Directives, the Pact aims to standardise all matters relating to immigration, asylum and settlement across the 27 member states.

For example the enhanced European Union Agency for Asylum will have “deployable Asylum Support Teams” to “assist” member states in the provision of services to migrants, and it will monitor all countries’ activities and standards “as a concrete form of European solidarity.”

Some of the Commission’s statements would seem to leave the door open to a continued fudge. For example the statement that “Member States will continue to decide to whom and to how many people they will grant protection” is followed by a statement that “The Framework will be implemented through EU-wide plans, adopted by the Council on a proposal from the Commission, setting out a total number of persons to be admitted every 2 years.” Readers must make of that what they can.

The EU and the UN believe in open borders

It must be remembered that the official policy of the UN’s “International Organization for Migration” (IOM) is to have open borders for all migrants. This UN organisation is fully-supported and part-funded by the EU, as we have reported previously.

The EU Commission says that its ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’ will “provide a stable EU framework for the EU contribution to global resettlement efforts.”

Observations

A country without borders isn’t a country

The above statement should be self-evident to any normal person anywhere in the world. Unless, that is, you inhabit the grey and unaccountable corridors of the EU Commission’s headquarters in Brussels, or the UN’s grey and unaccountable corridors in New York or Geneva

Inhabitants of those publicly-funded centres of privilege, with limos, expense accounts, and tax-free salaries do not have to live with the effects of uncontrolled immigration on the people living in real, local communities.

Will the EU Commission’s ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’ work?

As usual the EU has spent years trying to solve a problem and has come up with fudge after fudge, none of which have so far been agreed by all member countries.

Despite all the EU’s continual claims of ‘unity’ and ‘solidarity’, the simple fact remains that some countries are unwilling to accept the consequences of Chancellor Merkel’s disastrous “all welcome here” announcement in 2015.

Italy, Greece and Spain in particular are desperate for other EU member states to take in far more of their migrant influxes. Countries such as Hungary and Poland are still holding out.

Based on our overnight assessment of the measures announced by the EU Commission yesterday, we see some positive movement in some areas of policy, but we can see no clear resolution to the problems of the Mediterranean countries which have borne the brunt of Mrs Merkel’s fiasco.

Thank goodness we will soon be out of this

The United Kingdom’s taxpayers continue to fund the EU’s migration problems - and will do for years to come - based on the terms of the thoroughly discredited Withdrawal Treaty.

The continuing costs will be astronomical, as we have previously reported. Were Frau Merkel to offer to pick up the tab, this would be a start. Even then we doubt it would be enough to change the minds of the former Eastern Bloc countries, who wish to see moderate and controlled immigration and for asylum to be granted only to genuine refugees.

We also continue to urge the unelected eurocrats in Brussels to repudiate the open borders policies of the UN’s migration agency (the IOM) which they back, and instead to pursue policies which could be supported by ordinary people living in the EU.

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[ Sources: EU Commission | EU official statistics agency Eurostat | UN IOM ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Thur 24 Sept 2020

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Reader Comments 11

1. Patrick F , Thursday, September 24, 2020, 06:14:

Off topic, with apologies.
Introducing Covid, the troublesome teenager.
"Covid?"
"Yes, mum."
"Are you still up?"
"Yes mum."
"It's one minute past ten, and Mr Boris says you should go to sleep to protect us all."
"Mum, you know I CAN'T sleep. I've too much to do!"
"Such as?"
"Help Mr Boris, spin the lie that downloading the App will make you safe."
"I thought it was masks that made us safe."
(Covid collapses in a fit of giggles, spewing spittle and droplets.)

2. Peter Salisbury , Thursday, September 24, 2020, 06:45:

Oh heck the EU aka Von Der leyen says it will be mandatory migrant allocation. Oh dear, got a feeling that ain't going to work: foisting unwanted migrants onto countries who don't want em with the expectation that these countries will change their minds when monies are involved. Dream on

3. Michael M , Thursday, September 24, 2020, 06:57:

All slowly making their way here.😣

4. Sydney Ashurst , Thursday, September 24, 2020, 07:19:

How is it being taken in the EU. The EURACTIV Network reported on how EU member states reacted to the European Commission proposal for a New Migration and Asylum Pact.
The Commission proposed that EU states share responsibility for asylum seekers under a “mandatory solidarity” mechanism.
With the new pact, it hopes to avert a replay of the 2015 migration crisis by giving countries a choice between taking in migrants or helping to send them back home.
Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson immediately hinted that agreeing on the pact among the EU27 would not be plain sailing. “My guess is that I will have zero member states saying it’s a perfect proposal,” said Johansson.
More unelected Ursula von der Leyen 'pie in the sky'

5. Concerned , Thursday, September 24, 2020, 08:30:

Lets face it, Europe is being prepared for another war. It seems to me this will either come as a civil one or another world war. The 'eugenics' zealots say there are too many people in the world and they have decided who should live and who should expire.

6. Mike S , Thursday, September 24, 2020, 12:07:

Honestly,what did Frau Merkel,with the support of the EU, especially France who knew full well that all they were going to do was point in the direction of the French coast heading towards the UK,think was going to happen?! Did they have the delusion that all & sundry would just line up in nice neat rows patiently awaiting their turn to be called over?! The EU themselves have caused this issue & yet again,are wanting the UK to bare the brunt by taking all that they don't want,& to bare the brunt of the financial costs,France & Germany mainly! Italy,Greece & Spain are getting shafted by the EU & been told to suck it up, possibly the 2nd 3rd & 4th nations to exit the EU, here's hoping,& Hungary & Poland essentially closing their boarders to this & the EU seems powerless to do anything about it! If the EU wish for a hard boarder put up somewhere,maybe get them to cough up the cash to pay for one going from the English Channel from between Dover & Calais westwards towards the Irish Republic, keeping this problem a EU problem & to give the anti-British sentiment of the Eire government a genuine issue do moan about! The EU didn't & don't give a hang about the UK,we should be just the same towards them! As for the illegal immigrants,if the EU want money from the UK then,for EVERY illegal immigrant caught coming to & entering the UK,man,woman & child,deduct £100,000 per illegal immigrant we catch from any divorce settlement that might get agreed. That'll soon get the EU,more so France, getting their fingers out & doing something positive about this rather than purposely trying to screw over the UK!

7. Peter H , Friday, September 25, 2020, 09:33:

But we can’t fund care for our own at need individuals ....... something wrong there then!

8. JonL , Friday, September 25, 2020, 17:06:

Sometimes a headline tells you all you need to know. Here is one just today from Bloomberg, which is one of the most anti-Brexit news services out there:
"EU negotiators have agreed not to allow their opposition to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to break international law to distract them from trying to secure a deal."
Got that? The Internal Market Bill, which was supposed to bring negotiations to a screeching halt, while international cops arrested Boris for "breaking international law" is now no more than a "distraction" and negotiations will continue, completely ignoring it.
Compare that to the two solid weeks of incendiary headlines and dire IMB predictions we've been subjected to. Then we should ask how many other MSM headlines are just completely fake news, and part of Project Fear.

9. Mike Allen , Saturday, September 26, 2020, 05:19:

That's how great the EU is. The figures speak for themselves.

10. Tommy Jardine , Saturday, September 26, 2020, 08:33:

Most of these unwanted migrants and illegal refugees have no rights in the uk but come come here demanding this and demanding that,they are aided by so called human rights groups,doogooders and crooked lawyers who dont look at the bigger picture of years ahead.

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