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President Kais Saied (R) with Interior Minister Kamal Feki (L) during his swearing-in ceremony at the Carthage presidential palace in Tunis, Tunisia | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/TUNISIAN PRESIDENCY
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi (L) and European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson, during a press conference in Lampedusa, on July 4, 2023 | Photo: ANSA/ELIO DESIDERIO
Tunisians mourn during the funeral of a man who was fatally stabbed during a scuffle between local residents and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, in Sfax © Houssem Zouari / AFP
Around 70% of the applications were in five countries, Germany, France, Spain, Austria and italy | Photo: imago images/NurPhoto
© Thomas Coex/AFP | Ukrainians arrive at a welcome center for refugees in Paris in March 2022. France has welcomed 100,000 Ukranians since the start of Russia's invasion in February 2022, but they are not part of official asylum figures, because they are part of a European temporary protection programme.