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Governments across Europe are stopping Syrian refugee applications, but whether a fresh migrant wave or a period of repatriation now follows is unclear.

European governments are now embodying what was considered by the political and media establishment as unacceptably racist in 2015 when Donald Trump said to shut down immigration “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. Nations across the continent have now enacted a hard stop on Syrian refugee applications and are remarkably blunt in explaining this is because they don’t know exactly what the collapse of the Syrian regime will mean, and what will happen next.

Germany and Austria were the first to move on Monday, but since the United Kingdom, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Greece, Finland and Norway have joined them in suspending new Syrian refugee claims, a decade after the Europe migrant crisis began and four million Syrians filed for protection in Europe.

The ‘wait and see’ approach underlines somewhat the idea the collapse of the Syrian regime appears to have caught the UK government off guard and with no coherent messaging prepared. Senior Labour figures repeatedly contradicted each other this week, with Foreign Minister David Lammy refused to be drawn on whether the UK would be suspending Syrian asylum claims even as his colleague the Home Secretary was announcing just that within minutes.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/10/uk-joins-rush-of-european-states-suspending-syrian-refugee-claims/

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