
EUAA: Nearly 1 Million Asylum Applications in 2022; Highest Since 2016 Crisis
Nearly three-quarters (71%) of those who filed asylum applications in the 27-member bloc, with the addition of Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Lichtenstein, were men.
Nearly three-quarters (71%) of those who filed asylum applications in the 27-member bloc, with the addition of Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Lichtenstein, were men.
Spain’s EU Council Presidency was officially launched in Madrid, where both PM Sánchez and Commission President von der Leyen said they’d push through the Migration Pact regardless of Central European objections.
Poland promises to veto the migrant relocations, Hungary questions Brussels’s extra-budgetary requests, and others keep worrying about the possibility of a resurgent Wagner coming out of Belarus. All in one day.
Younger members feel that Green Party top brass have conceded on the immigration issue.
“Let [Western Europe] do these social experiments on their own citizens, with their own money, and leave Poland out of it,” MEP Kosma Złotowski told the EuroCon, as Warsaw pledges to resist migrant quotas.
“We are very hopeful to move things in the right direction,” members of the new cross-party policy group said, promising to do everything they can “to stop this left-wing compromise” on the new migration pact.
The EU’s asylum pact imposes a quota system on member states to accept refugees. The Sweden Democrats have declared it a risk to national sovereignty.
“There are more battles to come,” conservative MEP Charlie Weimers noted, observing that the decision would prevent effective border control and enshrine migrant quotas in the new Asylum and Immigration Pact.