2023-09-14 20:15:00
While Lampedusa is in a state of emergency, faced with the arrival of more than 7,000 numerous migrants, what is the situation here? Are we at risk of a new migration crisis?
Currently, Belgium has 35,000 reception and accommodation places spread across 500 municipalities. But it’s not enough.
Single, isolated men seeking asylum are no longer a priority. There are places missing, but it is very difficult to know how many. “We are looking for sites everywhere“, first answers Nicole de Moor, Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration. But how many would she want? “It’s not an exact science, it depends on the number of people arriving in Belgium. THANKS“. Nicole de Moor ends the interview and we will know no more.
One certainty is the figures: last year, nearly 37,000 people requested international protection in Belgium. Nobody was talking about a migration crisis
This year, the demand curve is almost identical, and politicians are talking about a crisis.
Question to the Secretary of State: how to explain this difference? “We have a cumulative effect in the reception network. People who arrived last year are still in our reception network. This is the second year that we have had this strong increase and the effect is that the reception network is completely saturated“.
The Secretary of State calls for a different distribution of asylum seekers on a European scale. Nicole de Moor takes the example of Portugal, which welcomed 1,500 people this year, Belgium almost 20,000.
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