The European Union has seen more than 1 million asylum applications stayed by foreigners for the second year in 2024, international migrant regulators said this week.
An annual report from the European Union Asylum Union Agency (EUAA) revealed that EU countries, Norway and Switzerland, have 1,014,420 requests for exile last year. This marked the second consecutive year in a row, with over 1,143,437 requests recorded in 2023 being submitted. Report.
According to the EUAA, approximately 48% of asylum seekers came from countries where the status of refugee status is not historically likely to be low.
Meanwhile, figures from the EU's Frontex border agency showed the bloc an illegal border intersection of 239,000 people. This means that one in four asylum seekers could have been illegally blocked.
From the perspective of the country of origin of the fictional claims, Syria remained at the top with 151,000 people, followed by Afghanistan, 87,382, Venezuela (73,187), Turkey (55,705) and Colombia (51,529).
Germany has a massive economy and a generous welfare scheme for immigrants, and has been the largest destination for immigrants seeking asylum last year, with over 237,000 people submitted. Spain was second with 165,767, followed by Italy in 158,867, France (158,730), Greece (73,688), Belgium (39,206) and the Netherlands (33,437).
In contrast, Hungary saw only 29 asylum applications last year in a demonstration of strict border control enacted by Budapest Prime Minister Victor Orban's conservative and popular government.
To protect his country's borders, Orban has long been in conflict with Brussels, which has imposed millions of fines against Hungary and deducted from relocated EU funds.
The issue of massive migration to Europe has become an important driving force for elections, with anti-millionaires winning in countries such as the Netherlands and the Populist Party, which have gained significant benefits in countries such as France and Germany in recent years.
a investigation A YouGov held last month showed that the majority of the UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden believe that immigration is too expensive for their country in the past decade.
This is especially true for Spaniards and Germans, saying 80% and 81% of each population are too expensive.
Meanwhile, the majority of respondents from the seven countries surveyed felt that the government had performed very or rather badly in terms of immigration control. More than eight in ten people in both France and Germany felt their government had failed on the immigration front.
