{"id":7340,"date":"2021-08-26T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2021-09-25T20:37:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T19:37:46","slug":"europe-braces-for-tsunami-of-afghan-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2021\/08\/26\/europe-braces-for-tsunami-of-afghan-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Braces for Tsunami of Afghan Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2021\/08\/26\/europe-braces-for-tsunami-of-afghan-migrants\/spain-afghanistan-conflict\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7341\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7341\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/afghan-migrants-eu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/afghan-migrants-eu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/afghan-migrants-eu-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Taliban conquest of Afghanistan is poised to trigger an unprecedented wave of Afghan migration to Europe, which is bracing for the arrival of potentially hundreds of thousands \u2014 possibly even millions \u2014 of refugees and migrants from the war-torn country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Europe Braces for Tsunami of Afghan Migrants<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17680\/europe-afghan-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | August 26, 2021<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban conquest of Afghanistan is poised to trigger an unprecedented wave of Afghan migration to Europe, which is bracing for the arrival of potentially hundreds of thousands \u2014 possibly even millions \u2014 of refugees and migrants from the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, expressing an ominous sense of foreboding, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnd.de\/politik\/seehofer-erwartet-bis-zu-fuenf-millionen-weitere-afghanische-fluechtlinge-E5BYEFXG2AU2SAPARAUY4NIUCE.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a> that up to five million people will try to leave Afghanistan for Europe. Such migration numbers, if they materialize, would make the previous migration crisis of 2015 \u2014 when more than a million people from Africa, Asia and the Middle East made their way to Europe \u2014 pale by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, around 570,000 Afghans \u2014 almost exclusively young men \u2014 have requested asylum in the European Union, <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/migration\/152630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to EU estimates. In 2020, Afghanistan was the EU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/strategy\/priorities-2019-2024\/promoting-our-european-way-life\/statistics-migration-europe_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second-biggest source<\/a> of asylum applicants after those from Syria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17680\/europe-afghan-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban conquest of Afghanistan is poised to trigger an unprecedented wave of Afghan migration to Europe, which is bracing for the arrival of potentially hundreds of thousands \u2014 possibly even millions \u2014 of refugees and migrants from the war-torn country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,202],"tags":[239,60,180,9,52,179,55,185,195,146,177,200],"class_list":["post-7340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-union","category-migration-crisis","tag-afghanistan","tag-austria","tag-britain","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-greece","tag-italy","tag-migration-crisis","tag-slovenia-2","tag-spain","tag-turkey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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