More than 40 percent of asylum seekers to EU – Wedding

editor – 05/09/15, 15:13

© ANP. Failed asylum seekers in a squatted office building in Amsterdam-West.

The number of asylum seekers in Europe has increased considerably in recent years, reports CBS. In 2014 there were 40 percent more applicants to the European Union than in 2013. In the Netherlands, asked nearly 22 thousand people applied for asylum, more than double 2013.

• We should leave the door ajar, otherwise illegal immigrants climb through the window to

  Jean-Claude Juncker

Last year, a total of 562 thousand asylum seekers to EU countries, while the year previously “only” 391 thousand applications were made. There are not so many asylum seekers come to the EU since 1992, when 679 thousand asylum seekers did an application in the EU.

A third of the people who applied for asylum in the EU went to Germany. Also in Sweden, Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands, the number of strong, especially by the flow of asylum seekers from Syria. In France and Britain, the number of asylum seekers on the other hand hardly changed compared to 2013.

War in Syria
The big increase is largely due to the war in Syria: over 117 thousand refugees from that country applied for asylum in the EU. Netherlands came to 8.7 thousand Syrian asylum seekers. Late last year there were more asylum seekers from Kosovo to Hungary, Germany and Austria by an easing of the Serbian Kosovars travel rules allowing the EU to achieve easier. Unemployment in Kosovo is high and there is some time political unrest.

distribute Fairer
The pressure on EU Member States to approximate more equitable asylum seekers increasing. Both the European Parliament and the European Commission are in favor of a mandatory quota system, whereby the numbers to include asylum seekers depend inter alia, the surface and the national income of a country.

So far, the Member States want nothing knowledge of such mandatory distribution, to the frustration of the countries now bear the heaviest burden: Italy and Malta when it comes to the “first aid”, Sweden and Germany in the final shelter. At this time, apply the “Dublin rule”: asylum seekers should apply for asylum in the first country they arrive. Therefore should a country like Italy absorb much more asylum seekers than, for example, Bulgaria.

The European Commission for years been stressing more decisiveness and solidarity of the Member States, Brussels can not force them to do so. Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission called last month for an extensive system of legal immigration. “Therefore we leave the door ajar, otherwise climb illegal immigrants through the window.”