EU’s asylum applicants broke 1 million last year – the most in SEVEN YEARS

More Channel deaths, as we expose worst EU asylum numbers since 2015/16 crisis and no end in sight

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Facts4EU highlights the brutal scale of the EU’s inability to control its borders

12 more illegal migrants died in the Channel on Tuesday (03 Sept 2024) as their boat capsized. Amongst them were six children and a pregnant woman. With this tragic news, Facts4EU.Org once again exposes the source of this crisis and the dramatic increase in the number of asylum seekers able to cross the EU’s borders and make their way to the northern French coast.

This summary report deals with the annual stark numbers, in order to bring the Government’s attention to the fact this is genuinely a crisis – and one which shows no sign of abating. Indeed, the problem is escalating. All opinion polling confirms that the UK’s general public sees an urgent need to address the problem, even if the UK’s Government seems to have different priorities.

Here are the words of the EU’s own ‘European Union Agency for Asylum’ (EUAA)

“In 2023, asylum applications rose to levels reminiscent of the 2015-2016 refugee crisis.”
- EUAA, June 2024 asylum report

Readers will recall the 2015/16 migrant crisis precipitated by Chancellor Merkel’s rash, unilateral decision to open Germany’s borders to all-comers. This produced a massive influx of more than a million asylum applications per year in the EU for two years. We are now back in that 1 million+ territory.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

No. of asylum applicants in the EU topped 1 million last year

[Sources : EU Commission (Eurostat) and European Union Agency for Asylum report 2024.]

Verbatim, from the EU’s own agency for migrants

With the Government apparently obsessing about the use of language in describing the problem, (insisting on calling illegal migrants “irregular migrants”), the sheer, brutal scale of the crisis facing the EU – and therefore the United Kingdom – is on a par with the last great crisis, seven years ago. Here are more of the words from the EU’s own agency which deals with migration.

“Over the last two years, EU+ countries (EU Member States plus Norway and Switzerland) experienced increased asylum applications with notable surges in the autumns of 2022 and 2023.
“This trend peaked in October 2023 when 123,000 were applications lodged, a level reminiscent of the refugee crisis in 2015-2016. In fact, by the end of 2023, some 1.1 million applications had been lodged in the EU+ marking an 18% increase from the previous year, and the most for seven years.”
- European Union Agency for Asylum, summer 2024.

The lack of a sense of urgency

“But let us be clear – Member States will need to continue to show perseverance in the coming years.”
“a well-equipped EUAA will continue to assist in harmonising practices in Member States”

- Nina Gregori, Executive Director, European Union Agency for Asylum, June 2024

None of the above includes additional categories of asylum

“In 2023, asylum applications rose to levels reminiscent of the 2015-2016 refugee crisis. But in reality, countries provided protection to far more people, as over 4.3 million beneficiaries of temporary protection were recorded since the beginning of the Russian invasion, on top of the over 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2023.”

And in addition, none of the above includes those who avoid applying altogether

We know from our extensive research and reporting that many more migrants enter the EU and avoid applying for asylum altogether. This report, however, focuses on the cold, hard facts of actual asylum figures – this is data that cannot be disputed by anyone.

Observations

The tragedy which occurred on Tuesday, when 12 more migrants died attempting to cross the English Channel from France, was horrific. Six children were amongst those who perished.

If ever there was a moment to stand back and take stock, surely this was it. Sadly it seems that we are all becoming immune and these memories will soon fade for many.

Over the past eight years the Facts4EU.Org think-tank has researched and published countless, detailed reports on the migration crisis – both legal and illegal immigration. Today we have kept our report simple, in an effort to produce a summary which the Government should and must take seriously.

For the EU to be incapable, after all those years since the first crisis erupted in 2015/16, of controlling its borders and managing migration in an equally controlled manner is a scandal.

This continues to impact on the United Kingdom, despite having left the EU over three years ago. The simple fact is that the boat migrants are Macron’s migrants. They all depart from France. It is simply not good enough for Macron’s ministers to imply this is the UK’s fault, as happened this week.

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[ Sources: EUAA | EU Commission ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Thurs 05 Sept 2024

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Reader Comments 8

1. Have You Wondered. , Thursday, September 05, 2024, 07:37:

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There is an elephant in the migrants rubber dinghy !
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European Union Obligations to Detain Unsafe Migrant Craft
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Take a look at this synopsis and suggest:
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1. Why the EU and the French in particular are not abiding by 7 pieces of International and domestic law?
2. The ECHR are not upholding their own conventions.
3. Westminster is not promulgating and fighting in the International Courts and maybe the ICC?
4. Why the authors of these legislative processes are not highlighting and contesting the relevant parties?
5. Why are the RNLI not contesting this drain on their resources?
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It beggars belief that with so much legislation, all parties are emasculated - WHY? (or who?)
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR):
Article 2 (Right to Life)
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EU Maritime Safety Legislation
Port State Control (PSC) Directive (2009/16/EC):
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Directive 2013/32/EU on Common Procedures for Granting and Withdrawing International Protection:
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Articles 94 & 98
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International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)
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International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR)
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EU Coast Guard and Border Control Agencies :
• European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
• Detention Procedures for Unsafe Migrant Vessels
• Identification and Inspection:
• Issuance of Detention Order:
• Transfer and Processing of Migrants:
• Handling of the Vessel:
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2. terence patrick hewett , Thursday, September 05, 2024, 08:43:

The refusal of the Labour government to protect UK borders will destroy the Labour Party like it has destroyed the Tory Party. Both of them are a reflection of a decadent and corrupted political class who will vanish in the ongoing politicalre-alignment. They won't go quietly. The process will be very violent: far worse thanThatcher's challenge. We are now dealing with murderous religious fanaticism and all that entails.

3. Sparky , Saturday, September 07, 2024, 15:14:

Interesting analysis by UK in a Changing Europe. "Levelling up by levelling down? The economic and political costs of Brexit"

4. Gazzablack , Saturday, September 07, 2024, 23:41:

3, sparkless
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Actually it's better described as dull and monotonous.
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And now we go live to our pro-EU cheerleader Guy Verhofstadt for his thoughts on EU membership.
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"EU failure to act upon Russian frozen assets says everything about EU politics and institutional failure"
"No one in charge -nothing but division and bureucracy,. The EU needs to reform or become irrelevant".
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Perhaps Guy is aware that not only is food not only more expensive in the EU than in the UK,
.But also that since Brexit the gap has widened.
Perhaps making 47% of all products tariff free made things cheaper?
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5. Sparky , Sunday, September 08, 2024, 04:58:

Don't know where you get your figures from but the UK hasn't started putting all the checks in place on EU imports where most of our food comes from. The inflation is still to come. There is now a proposal to delay checks again!
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Rishi called an early election because he could see inflation due to rise toward the end of this year.
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Blair is right about Brexit in this weekends press. Enjoy.

6. Jacs , Sunday, September 08, 2024, 07:27:

Sparkless I wouldn't insult my eyes and brain by reading any tripe Bliar spews , the would be EU president .

7. Sparky , Sunday, September 08, 2024, 07:36:

6 J. Not a fan myself after the Iraq War, he took dishonesty in politics up a level.
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But Blair and Major have been right on Brexit.

8. Gazzablack , Sunday, September 08, 2024, 07:41:

5, sparkless
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Derived from Eurostat and ONS.
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Sorry sparky but we don't rely on the EU for our food, and an intensifying of our customs regime will have a negligible effect on prices.
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Lastly, Bush's poodle has nothing of value to say.

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