BREXIT MEANS WE CONTROL OUR OWN BORDERS
Summary:
The new EU Migration Pact mandates each member state to take their share of at least 30,000 asylum seeker relocations a year, or pay €20,000 each for every one refused.
The UK share, 13%, would have been at least 3,900 a year – or €78 Million.
In 2022 over 966,000 asylum applicants arrived into the EU. If these were all assigned through the migration pact across the EU member states, and the UK was still a member, this would have been over 124,000 people – or a cost of €2.5 Billion. Just for a single year.
Explanation:
After many years of debate, the 27 members of the EU have finally agreed on what has been called the EU Migration Pact. This pact looks to both reinforce the borders of the EU, and share out the burden of illegal migrants and asylum seekers across all member states.
The Pact agrees to redistribute at least 30,000 asylum applicants a year from those countries in the south of Europe who receive the highest influx, sharing them out across the other EU member states according predominantly to their population size. Those member states who do not wish to have their share of the redistribution, can avoid doing so by paying a €20,000 fee for every asylum applicant they refuse to take.
If the UK were still a member of the EU today, its share would be 13% of the annual allocation – which at a minimum would be 3,900 asylum applicants, or a €78 Million fee. In 2022 over 966,000 asylum applicants arrived into the EU – so if this entire arrival was to be allocated by the pact, the UK would have received 124,000 people or a €2.5 Billion fee.
In June 2024 the EU fined Hungary €200 Million for refusing to take part in the scheme, and €1 Million extra in fees per day, for every day it takes them to comply with the scheme.