POLITICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

poland PM quote

“we are deal with a new type of war, … in which migrants are being used as weapons” (2021)

Viktor Orbán on Ukraine crisis

“hungry is a good friend to ukraine … they can count on that” (2022)

How many refugees in poland

over 1 million

Poland fence

steel wall 186 km

Italy & albania deal

more than 1 billion euros, 36000 asylum per year (feb 2024)

how many eu memebr states

27

1951 convention article 35

states must report to the UNHCR

Alternaive for dustchland

Far right german party

New pack on migration and asylem

“streamline migration processes… [and] to address longstanding differences in responsibility sharing amoung memebr states” (EPC, 2024)

Ursula von leyen on EU pact

“[it is] effective and both fair and firm” (2024)

refugeee convention 1951

149 states signed, guidlines on how refugees should be treated

treaty of lisbon

consititon for the eu (2007)

states not in the EU

india, pakistan, indosia, bangledesh, Iran, yemen, egypt

How many rohinga people in bangledesh

over 1 million

USAID, rohingya pervious

The U.S. previously provided over half of the foreign funding for the Rohingya crisis ($301 million in 2024). (aljeezira 2025)

USAID, rohingya ending effects

at least five major hospitals and 14 specialized treatment facilities shuttered or halted operations leading to preventable deaths among young children in vulnerable settlements. (Amnesty International, 2025)

Poland belarus border

over 100 died (UNHCR, 2023)

Article 98 of law of the sea

mandatory sea rescue

boats in Mediterranean from africa and the middle east

2411 died (2022)

US UNHCR donations

2 billion, 40% of total funding from states (2024)

how many displaced people world wide

123.2 million (UNHCR, 2024)

UNHCR budget 2024

10.8 billion

UNHCR budget 2026

8.5 billion

how many displaced ukrainians

9.7 million (unhcr , 2024)

orban on middle eastern refugees

“muslim invanders” jan 2018

how many displaced people from syria

13.6 million

orban refugee risk quote

“every single migrant is a risk to national sercurity and terror”

article 16a german constituion

must take care of refugees

how many internally displaced ukrainians

3.5 million

Germany cirsis funding

111.23 mill for syria 16 mill for ukraine

german funding help syria

have supported Syrian refugees and local host communities in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey with cash transfers, education, and shock-responsive social protection

unhcr good

188800 refugees resettled, 47200 statles people citizenship

refoulment

returned to place of origin

artile 33 1951 refugee convention

non-refoulment

unemployment ukrainian refugees

45%

TPD

protect non EU national fleeing armed conflict, provides residence permits, employment access, housing, medical care, and education without requiring a standard asylum process.

orban ukraine quote

“let every refugee from ukraine in” (info migrants, 2022)

EU pact on migration and asylem

ment to compel member states to more evenly share the respoensiblty of hosting refugee, and reform border sercurty mesures

eu pact on migration and asylem - amnesty international

“it will lead to greater suffering a put people at more risk of human right violations”

tpd cam into action

march 4 2022

geoigia milone refugees quote

‘I will not allow italy to become europes refugee camp!” (2023)

russia invade ukraine date

feb 2022

what percent of ukrainian refugees are in the EU

92%

piantosi decree date

2 january 2023

piantosi decree

one rescue at a time, must dock at dock specificed by italian government, may face fines and boat confercation

Orban on EU migration pact

“secure borders are no more” “mass migration frenzy’

italy government S&R

called it a “pull factor” (2023)

meloni campaign slogan

“yes to secure borders, no to mass migration”

what does the unhcr do

“works in 128 countries… to protect and assist the worlds refugees internally displaced and stateless people”

refugees unemployment

3 times higher than citizens

MSF - piantosi decree

“will make the central meditarian… even more dangerous” and “will lead to more deaths” (2023)

how many refugees in germany

2.7 mil (UNHCR,2024)

western balkan migration route

Primary way for refugees from middle east to access europe, blocked since march 2016

afd percentage most recent german election

over 20% in 2025 election (mixed migration centre, 2025)

germnay unhcr donations

332 million, (2024)

syrian civil war dates

2011-2024

unhcr on germany

“long standing and well established partnership” UNHCR 2023

Afgan refugees

more than 10 million

eu externaisation quote

“the serective outsourcing of migration and border control.. [in the EU] is … not subject to democratic scrutiny” Heinrick Böll foundation 2022

guterres on equal treatment of refugees

I am grateful for the compassion … and solidairty of ukraines naibours… [but] it is important to extend the this solidarity without discrimination” (2022)

how many refugees in türkiye?

more than 2.6 mill

arives by sea in italy 2024

over 66600

who exemt from albaina deal

children, pregnet wemon and vunreable people

EU türkiye deal

2 billion euros and preferencal visa treatment for turkish people to keep most refugees out of europe

eu turkyie deal dates

start 20 March 2016, broke down march 2020

MSF S&R

operates 8 vessels for S&R since 2015

MSF website S&R quote

“we work in S&R becuase it is a duty, fuelled by the humanitaritan need to prevent people from drowning while they seek saftey”

Albo on liberation day tariffs

"this is not the act of a friend" (2025)

effect of liberation day tariffs

"a lot of job loses" and "higher prices" (prof. warwick mckinnon, 2026)

Us-china tariffs

Us to china 145%, china to us 125%

CHIPS Act

U.S. federal statute that provides roughly $280 billion in new funding to boost research and manufacturing of semiconductors inside the United States

Australia Us favorabitly rating

29% (pewre reaserch, 2026)

US VS China favouriblity

more australian's favour china over the us (BBC, 2026)

us leave WHO

executive order 14155, Jan 20 2025

China defence budget

about 277 billion (2025)

How many nukes does the us have

roughly 1700 (2025)

Rubio tariff quote

"the president … felt that the status of globe trade was unfair to american workers and the american economy" (2025)

US defense budget 2024

almost 1 trillion

semi conductor exports

biden administration banned exports of semi conductors to china in october 2022

national sercurity stratergy, sercurity

"first and formost, we want the continued survival and safety of the us as an indepentant sovereign republic"

japan US snub

tokyo cannceled a planned meeting of us and japanese foreigen and defence ministers in july 2025 after tariffs and the us asking japan to increase millitary spending

US bases japan and south korea

120 japan, 73 korea (alijezera 2021)

china millarty budget growth

7% annually

original tariffs on allies

japan 24% australia 10%, south korea 25%

tariff effect on approval rating

us approvel rating down in every state survey form 2024 to 2026 (pewre reaserch, 2026)

Trump change quote

"in 100 day we have delivered the most profound change in washington in nearly 100 years" (trump, 2025)

liberaion day tariffs executive order

executive order 14257

left paris agreement

executive order 14162, Jan 20 2025

M&e industry worth

650 billion, biggest in the world (us dept trade 2024)

trump liberation day quote

"our country has been looted… and plundered by nations … both friend and foe alike" (trump, 2 april 2025)

Malayasian prime minister - storm

"this is no passing storm … it is the weather of our time" (ABC, 2025)

US power index

"in 2025, the us recorded the largest decline of any state [in the indo-pacific] … [dispite] remain[ing] the top power [in the region ]… this is due to structural factors and the approaches of of the 2nd trump administration"

quad stabitly

"we strong oppose any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo by force or by co-ercion" quad meeting, 2025

us aircraft carriers

11, 6 of which are in the indo-pacifc

full bright foreign student program

4000 high performing students receive them annually from 160 states world wide

Xi us partnership quotes

"china and the united states should be parners rather than rivals" (maycriti 2025)

critical minieral examples

gallium, germanium, antimony and rare earths

how many embassies does the us have?

180 (lowly institue, 2025)

us exports

3.19 trillion (world bank, 2024)