Syrian refugees wait to cross into Syria at the Cilvegozu Turkish border crossing on Dec. 9, 2024.
It did not take long for some European administrations and politicians to take advantage of the regime change in Syria to announce the suspension of asylum applications for Syrian nationals, some of whom have been refugees since the start of the civil war in 2011.Now that President Bashar al-Assad has been ousted, some countries believe that asylum seekers, persecuted under a regime that has now been overthrown, no longer have any reason to claim or benefit from this status.Among the European countries considering a temporary suspension of the protection granted to Syrians are the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium.In Germany, the European country that houses the largest number of Syrian refugees (around 716,000, according to the U.N.), the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees...
It did not take long for some European administrations and politicians to take advantage of the regime change in Syria to announce the suspension of asylum applications for Syrian nationals, some of whom have been refugees since the start of the civil war in 2011.Now that President Bashar al-Assad has been ousted, some countries believe that asylum seekers, persecuted under a regime that has now been overthrown, no longer have any reason to claim or benefit from this status.Among the European countries considering a temporary suspension of the protection granted to Syrians are the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium.In Germany, the European country that houses the largest number of Syrian refugees (around 716,000, according to the U.N.), the Federal Office for Migration and...
