This year Ruud Koopmans published it Asylum lottery. In it, a sociology professor working in Berlin lays out the most painful part of Europe’s asylum policy with facts and figures: the life-threatening overseas journeys that irregular migrants must undertake before they can apply for asylum. According to Koopmans, 25 to 50,000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean in the last ten years.

After publication, the author was allowed to tell his story to German political parties. The solution, for what THAT IS also supporting, clear and real. Have asylum seekers submit their applications on their own continent and have them processed there. It also prevents the arrival of desperate asylum seekers to European territory, who now rarely or never return.

German parties have taken Koopmans’ advice to heart. The CDU and FDP have supported a ‘humane and controlled refugee policy’ in which asylum applications are processed in ‘third countries’. In Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD, more and more voices are calling for the ‘outsourcing’ of asylum procedures.

Member states are increasingly taking matters into their own hands

In Brussels, the European Parliament is still busy with the Asylum and Migration Pact which must be agreed before the European elections in June 2024. But the Pact does not address the most painful matters. This is based on asylum application offices at Europe’s external borders.

Member states are taking matters into their own hands. Now, when Germany is faced with a 70 percent increase in the number of asylum applications compared to 2022, and its population is dying, something structural must be done. He purchase it no longer exists. (former member states) Britain and Denmark also have plans to make it impossible to apply for asylum on their territory.