2023-09-05 10:16:20
Around 519,000 asylum applications were registered in the EU, Norway and Switzerland in the first six months of 2023 – 28 percent more than in the same period last year. According to the figures published on Tuesday by the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA), Germany accounted for around 30 percent of the asylum applications submitted by the end of June (154,677). Spain (86,786), France (81,158), Italy (62,484) and Austria (22,990) follow. In Hungary it was 22.
According to the EUAA, these are the highest half-year figures since 2015 and 2016. At that time, around 1.3 million asylum applications were received in the 29 countries as a result of the civil war in Syria, and around 1.2 million in the following year. In 2022, a total of 994,945 applications were made.
The EUAA went on to say that given the “trends currently being observed”, “the number of asylum applications might exceed one million by the end of the year”. According to this, most asylum applications were made in the first half of 2023 by people from Syria, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Turkey and Colombia. They accounted for a total of around 44 percent of the applicants.
Numerous European countries are “under pressure” when processing asylum applications, the EUAA explained. The number of asylum applications pending a decision has increased by 34 percent compared to 2022. Around 41 percent of the processed applications were approved.
The approximately four million Ukrainians who are fleeing the Russian war of aggression once morest their country are not among the asylum seekers. They have a special protection status within the EU.
“In view of the dramatic increase in mass immigration to Europe, it is high time that the EU stopped granting asylum to everyone who made it to the external border,” said Harald Vilimsky, head of the FPÖ delegation in the EU Parliament, in a broadcast . Brussels is watching the “mass immigration under abuse of the right to asylum” without doing anything, he criticized.
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