Asylum applications to the EU have risen by nearly one-third over 2022 as the bloc expects over a million to apply for asylum this year.
of all 27 member states and Norway and Switzerland in the first half of the year at 30 per cent, nearly double that of the next countries, with Spain at 17 per cent and France at 16 per cent.
The increase in asylum applications comes as Brussels is attempting to impose a migrant redistribution programme across its member states in order to supposedly share the burden more fairly across the bloc.
Hungary has outright declared that it will refuse to pay the fines and the Polish government is set to put the topic before the people in a referendum that will coincide with the upcoming general election in October.
The referendum will likely serve as a boost to the conservative Law and Justice government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, which has represented one of the staunchest defenders of national sovereignty and border controls in the EU.
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