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Provisions do not apply to legal migrants to the EU (~3.5 million in 2023) and migrants who arrived legally but overstayed their visas (~700,000 in 2023). [ 13 ] The Pact will mandate that the same procedures and procedural standards apply to all asylum applicants across EU member states. [ 15 ]
Some 3.5 million migrants arrived legally in Europe in 2023. Around 1 million others were on EU territory without permission. Of the latter, most were people who entered normally via airports and ports with visas but didn’t go home when they expired. The pact applies to the remaining minority, estimated at around 300,000 migrants last year.
According to EU data, the Netherlands received two first-time asylum applications per 1,000 residents in 2023, close to the bloc's average. Ten member states had a higher proportion.
The provisions of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum apply to migrants caught illegally crossing an external EU border, such as those reaching the shores of Greece, Italy or Spain via the Mediterranean Sea or Atlantic Ocean on boats provided by smugglers; estimated at around 300,000 migrants in 2023. [21]
Of the 105,865 non-EU citizens that had been ordered to leave the bloc, statistics agency Eurostat said earlier this month that some 26,600 people were sent away in the second quarter of 2023, a ...
Von der Leyen Commission proposed the EU Asylum and Migration Pact in September 2020. The deal was agreed to on 20 December 2023 between representatives of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. [123] Ursula von der Leyen praised the EU Asylum and Migration Pact as a "huge achievement for Europe". [124]
Italy will build two reception and detention camps in Albania which will host a maximum of 3,000 migrants at any one time, marking the first ever deal involving a non-EU country accepting migrants ...
There are 23 objectives and commitments listed in the draft agreement. These include collecting and using accurate and anonymized data to develop evidence-based migration policy, ensuring that all migrants have proof of identity, enhancing availability and flexibility for regular migration, encouraging cooperation for tracking missing migrants and saving lives, ensuring migrants can access ...