In its 2024 annual report, published on Monday 17 June, the European Union Agency for Asylum estimated that despite the fact that more than 1.1 million applications were lodged in 2023, capacity-building efforts in the Member States have enabled asylum systems to better manage this increase in the number of applications, even though some national systems are “still under significant pressure”.
In 2023, the EU+ countries (the EU and Schengen-associated states) received more than...