What is going on here? Obviously the standard response is that we cannot question desperate people fleeing war etc, but Albania is peaceful and so is France, so what is going on?

12,000 arrived by boat this year compared to 50 in 2020, (admittedly, covid year), 800 in 2021 and now 12,000 in 2022.

Yet Albania had the same democratically elected socialist government in all of those years. What has changed?

Seems to be a growing understanding that something pretty serious is amiss, with there being a huge back log in cases, an inability to deport and costs of £7m a day to house. More and more stories are leaking out about the situation.

In all seriousness though, for those who claim this is desperate people fleeing and not mass abuse of the system, what has changed in Albania since last year?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...es-to-be-heard

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...boat-year.html