The Austrian government has drafted a law that would hit asylum seekers with heavy financial penalties or even imprisonment if they skip mandatory language and values courses.
EU member states have approved a reform which would permit the establishment of offshore centers for rejected asylum-seekers—despite heated rhetoric from the Left—which is now with the European Parliament.
Britain’s Home Office reported that the number of asylum applications by students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan “rocketed” by more than 470% between 2021 and 2025.
