Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, currently under Beijing’s sanctions, called the report “absolutely damning,” and the UK government’s policy on China a “shambolic mess.”
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.
Although the overall progress is palpable, only 25% of last year’s recommendations have been fully implemented, the Commission’s report noted, while 35% wasn’t even started.
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.
