
Ireland: EU Veto Sends Housing Plans into Disarray
Brussels counters Ireland’s plans to regulate Airbnb as lacking evidence, as the Irish government faces challenges from the Left and a rising populist sentiment against asylum seekers.
Brussels counters Ireland’s plans to regulate Airbnb as lacking evidence, as the Irish government faces challenges from the Left and a rising populist sentiment against asylum seekers.
While Britain is not part of EU institutions, the criticism by the CoE will rightly be seen by many Brexiters as yet another attempt to undermine the UK’s sovereignty post-Brexit.
Iceland, which has a population of 370,000, saw 2,500 asylum seekers arrive in 2022, supported by open-border NGOs.
The German ambassador to Pakistan castigated the policies of Green Party Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, as the country accepts 1,000 Afghan refugees each month under a new scheme.
Germany received 244,000 asylum applicants in 2022, with officials now looking at plans to incentivise legal migration through schemes and transfer more of the burden to North Africa.
If projections are correct, the number of asylum seekers and Ukrainian refugees entering Germany over the years 2022-2023 will equal twice the population of Köln.
The news comes as asylum applications submitted across the European Union’s 27 member states in 2022 climbed to nearly one million, the highest number recorded since the European migrant crisis of 2015.
Austria, with its population of just under nine million, witnessed the largest percentage increase of any EU member state, logging 108,490 asylum applications last year compared to 39,930 registered in 2021.
“This government was elected, among other things, on a mandate to create a paradigm shift in migration policy. This requires many major changes,” Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) told members of the press.
The number of migrants seeking asylum last year was the sixth-highest recorded in Germany’s history, exceeded only by the number of newcomers who entered between 1991 and 1993, during the Balkan wars, and those who came during the European Migrant Crisis of 2015-16.