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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Let's cut to the chase. Do you want undocumented migrants who have deliberately destroyed their ID documents, who might be Albanians who bring their crime with them, who might be ISIS/Alqaeda, etc?
However, I am in favour of a deal with France that stops the boats but enrols UK in a European wide asylum share programme. The problem with the programme will be the calculations of fair shares and what degree of say we have in rules formulation.
Finally, we have to be vigilant. 750 millions (or whatever) from Africa could be eyeing up Europe and the UK especially. What then?
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https://researchbriefings.files.parl...03/SN01403.pdf
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In 2021, there were around 9 asylum applications for every 10,000 people living in the UK. Across the EU27 there were 14 asylum applications for every 10,000 people. The UK was therefore below the average among EU countries for asylum applications per head of population, ranking 16th among EU27 countries plus the UK on this measure.
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In 2021, Germany received the largest number of asylum applicants among EU countries (190,500), followed by France (120,700), Spain (65,300), Italy (53,600) and Austria (39,900).
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For comparison, the U.K. had 72,027 asylum applications in 2021
U.K. population 66,000,000 - 72,000 asylum applications - 1 application per 917 citizens
Germany population 84,000,000 - 190,000 applications - 1 application per 442 citizens
France population 68,000,000 - 120,000 applications - 1 application per 567 citizens
Spain population 47,000,000 - 65,000 applications - 1 application per 723 citizens
Italy population 59,000,000 - 53,000 applications - 1 application per 1113 citizens
Austria population 9,000,000 - 40,000 applications - 1 application per 225 citizens
Per capita, Germany had roughly twice as many asylum applications as the U.K., while Austria had over four times as many.