Suicide by a Thousand Cuts: EU Migrant Population Hits Record 64.2 Million

Immigration to the European Union has surged to historically high levels, reaching a total of 64.2 million foreign-born residents in 2025. According to the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, which utilizes Eurostat and UNHCR data, this represents a dramatic climb from the 40 million recorded in 2010 and a year-over-year increase of 2.1 million people. 

 

"Agents of Deveolpment," preparing for a crossing from the French coast toward the UK. 

To put this in perspective, approximately one in seven people residing in the European Union was born in a country other than the one where they currently live. The growth trend over the last 15 years highlights a significant shift in the bloc's composition.

 

 

Number of individuals born outside their country of residence
(including those with unknown birth country) in the EU, 2010-2025

 (excluding Portugal due to missing data).

 Number of immigrants in EU countries with the largest immigrant populations, 2010-2025.

 

Number of individuals born outside their country of residence in the EU, 2010-2025.

 

In 2010, the foreign-born population represented approximately 9% of the total EU population; by 2025, that share has risen to 14.25%. This presence is characterized by heavy geographic concentration, particularly in nations like Germany, where nearly 18 million foreign-born residents out of a total population of 83.6 million bring the local percentage to approximately 21.5%. 

"Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?"

Population Division, UN DESA, New York, March 21, 2000.

 

Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on the "Global Compact for Safe, 

Orderly and Regular Migration," A/RES/73/195, Marrakesh, Morocco, December 19, 2018. 

 

» The 2030 Agenda recognizes... migrant women, men and children... as agents of development. « 

"Migration and the 2030 Agenda. A Guide for Practitioners." IOM, 2018.

 

This shift also carries a distinct demographic impact. While the median age of the broader EU population reached 44.9 years in early 2025, 72% of the foreign-born group in Germany is of working age, contrasting sharply with the aging domestic profile of the bloc. These figures demonstrate that migration is not just increasing in volume, but is fundamentally reshaping the labor and age structures of the Union's largest economies.

Immigrant Population in 2025 by EU country (% of total population).

 

The Geography of Concentration

A small number of countries handle the vast majority of arrivals and residency stocks. Germany continues to be the primary destination, hosting nearly 18 million foreign-born residents, of whom 72% are of working age. Meanwhile, Spain has emerged as the leader in recent growth, adding 700,000 residents in a single year—roughly one-third of the entire EU’s annual increase—bringing its total foreign-born population to 9.5 million (20%). While Germany and Spain account for nearly half of the total increase, smaller states like Luxembourg, Malta, and Cyprus are experiencing the most significant pressure relative to their population size.

 

Ranking of EU27 countries by total migrant inflows, 2024.

 

Ranking of EU27 countries by total migrant inflows per 1,000 inhabitants, 2024. 

 

Asylum applications follow a similarly concentrated pattern, with four nations receiving nearly three-quarters of all claims. Spain leads the applications with 141,000, drawing heavily from Latin America, followed by Italy with 127,000 and France with 116,000, both of which exhibit diverse source-country patterns. Germany received 113,000 applications, primarily from conflict-driven regions such as Syria and Afghanistan. While larger nations take the most applications in absolute terms, smaller countries often bear a greater burden relative to their population.

 

Countries of Origin of First-Instance Asylum Applicants, 2025.

 

Socio-Economic Strain and the Housing Crisis

As migration reaches these new peaks, official data points to a severe mounting strain on living conditions across the bloc. In 2024, 8.2% of EU residents were considered overburdened by housing costs, spending at least 40% of their disposable income on rent or mortgages. The crisis is particularly acute for the youth, with nearly one in ten people aged 15 to 29 facing a similar housing cost burden. Furthermore, 16.9% of the population now lives in overcrowded households, and 9.2% are unable to adequately heat their homes.

Refugees as a Share of Total Population, 2025: Germany hosts the most (≈2.7 million), more than double Poland (≈1 million), followed by France (≈751,000), Spain (≈471,000), and Czechia (≈381,000). Italy (≈314,000), Austria (≈281,000), and the Netherlands (≈263,000), while most others have fewer than 200,000. Totals include refugees, people in refugee-like situations, and displaced persons from Ukraine under temporary protection.

Recently, European Council President Antonio Costa has emphasized that housing affordability is now "at the core of people's disillusionment with democratic institutions." Spot on, Mr. Costa... these economic pressures, combined with concerns over public security, services, and the cost of living, have fueled the rise in anti-immigration sentiment across EU member states and the UK. While the EU allocates approximately 2% of its seven-year budget to migration and "border management," the bulk of the financial and social costs are currently borne by individual national governments. 

 

In 2014, the cost to support 2 million "refugees" over the next three years was at €900

billion—more than twice the German federal government's total annual budget.

 

Now just imagine—due to a prolonged general economic crisis and decline—what will happen once national administrations are no longer able to milk their native populations for hundreds of billions of euros and can no longer redistribute enough protection money to millions of formerly pampered, predominantly male, military-age "refugees" and "migrants" from dozens of Muslim countries destroyed by U$raHell, UK, NATO, and the very EU… they may suddenly start helping themselves otherwise.

 

Most urgent EU priority instead: Drone production and another €90 billion "loan" for Ukraine.

Geopolitical Tensions and 'Defense' Realities

The official EU migration narrative is now inextricably linked to Russia... Russia's support of Syrian "dictator" Assad, the Libyan "Gaddafi regime," and "Putin's unprovoked aggression" against Ukraine. The EU currently hosts approximately 4.35 million Ukrainian nationals, with Germany serving as the largest host at over one million people. However, the political climate is shifting as domestic hospitality begins to wane. Berlin and Kyiv are now coordinating efforts to facilitate the return of military-age Ukrainian men to their home country's meat grinder as losses mount at the front.

 

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

Simultaneously, the EU—getting ready for "war with Russia by 2030"—is pivoting toward a more aggressive "defense" posture. Through the recently launched €800 billion EU “ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030” plan, member states are significantly increasing "defense spending" to counter perceived Russian aggression. 

 

 Militarism, war, deindustrialization, mass-migration, inflation, debt, impoverishment,

corruption, energy and food shortages: All ingredients in place for a perfect storm in the EU.

 

Moscow has dismissed these security concerns as "nonsense," suggesting that EU governments are using the "threat narrative" to distract their citizens from internal domestic failures and the growing complexities of their deliberately self-fabricated "Agenda 2030" replacement migration crisis. 

Reference:
Tommaso Frattini and Camilla Piovesan (April 20, 2026) - The Immigrant Population in the European Union:
Growth, Concentration and Dispersion. 

  

 See also:

Anthony Rubin (2026) - Replacing Europe: An Undercover Look at Mass Migration.

TPR (2016) - The US Weapon of Mass Migration and the Coerced Suicide of Europe.

TPR (March 30, 2026) - JPMorgan Maps and Times the Global Oil Supply Shockwave. Really? 
Stanislav Krapivnik (March 27, 2026) - No Energy, No Food: Global System Breakdown Begins.

Alexander L. Chizhevsky (2025) - Mass Excitability during Solar Cycle 25 (2019–2030).

David Betz (2025) - United Kingdom Configured for Civil War Within the Next 5 Years.

Markku Siira (2025) - The Sidonius Apollinaris Syndrome.

ICE and the Rise of Trump's Meta-Palantir-X Police State | Stew Peters

There are individuals claiming the mantle of patriots, freedom fighters, or "America First" advocates who are actively cheering for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Border Patrol raids within the American interior—cities like Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is worth noting that these operations have demonstrably failed to usher in the promised mass deportations.

 » Testing ground for implementing new technologies. «

We recognized from the outset that these raids are not truly about mass deportations, nor are they designed to remove illegal invaders. If that were the objective, the military would be in charge of the operation. Instead, what we are witnessing is a federal law enforcement maneuver intended to habituate the American public to the presence of heavily armed state agents patrolling neighborhood streets. These operations serve as a testing ground for implementing new technologies—specifically Artificial Intelligence—designed to transform this country into a police state and a surveillance apparatus that would surpass the reach of the Soviet Union's secret police.

This surveillance state is being constructed to facilitate the tracking, policing, and even the extrajudicial killing of American citizens who find themselves in opposition to the government and its financial benefactors. We are now seeing video evidence that confirms our prior warnings. Recently, footage went viral showing Border Patrol agents in Illinois wearing Meta-produced AI glasses. Agents used these devices to photograph protesters, presumably to integrate their images into federal databases and populate their "Palantir" profiles.

» Weapons of choice against the American people. «

 

While Meta publicly claims these glasses lack facial recognition, college students have already modified the exact same hardware to scan the internet and identify individuals instantly. If twenty-year-olds can achieve this, the capabilities available to the engineers at Meta—and by extension, the Department of Homeland Security—are far more profound. Given Mark Zuckerberg’s newfound alignment with Donald Trump, the Meta Ray-Bans worn by federal agents clashing with protesters are capable of much more than simple photography. It appears that Meta, the federal government, and various "Big Tech" AI corporations—including Palantir and X—are utilizing domestic chaos to field-test the very technologies and implementation methods they intend to permanentize. Welcome to the AI surveillance state; it has already arrived.

[...] We are entering a new era because the public is, in many ways, inviting it. We are seeing the rise of federal "robo-cops" equipped with AI sunglasses and mobile devices linked to facial recognition networks, scanning cities as if participating in a simulated urban warfare environment. Their priority is not the deportation of undocumented immigrants—noting that only approximately 350,000 were removed in 2025—but rather the installation of a police state. By fostering a chaotic and dangerous environment, they encourage citizens to plead for more agents and more control. The concept of mass deportation is being used as a rhetorical device to gain public consent for constant surveillance.

 

We have recently learned from a source within Turning Point USA that members of Charlie Kirk’s security team were wearing AI glasses, similar to those used by the DHS, to scan crowds and coordinate with drone swarms and remote-viewing systems. This technology is being utilized to target and eliminate Americans, and the cases of Alex Pretti and Charlie Kirk are merely the beginning. We are witnessing the birth of a system where constant scanning and identification are the weapons of choice against the American people.

 

Reference:
Stew Peters (January 30, 2026) - Secret Life Blown Open! (video)

 

As abroad, so within.

 

See also:

Mnar Adley (September 17, 2025) - Kirk Assassination Reveals Israel’s Control Over the US.
Martin Armstrong (October 24, 2025) - The United States Is Due for Another Massive Civil War.

Stew Peters (b. 1980) is a US former bounty hunter who hosts 'The Stew Peters Show,' a platform known for its anti-establishment rhetoric. A polarizing figure in alternative media, he gained prominence for his criticism of the 2020 US election and COVID-19 vaccines, most notably through his film 'Died Suddenly.' 

Replacing Europe: An Undercover Look at Mass Migration | Anthony Rubin

In a single generation, Europe has changed forever—more profoundly than in the last two thousand years. The globalist governments of Western Europe orchestrated this against their own peoples by design: they opened the borders, and a never-ending, multi-million-strong mass migration—in recent years primarily from Africa, the world's most violence-ridden continent—has been flowing into Europe. Mass immigration has fractured social unity and uprooted European cultures entirely, transforming once-majestic cities into no-go zones and slums. For every 'refugee boat' that arrives, institutionalized African mafias net between 50,000 and 60,000 euros directly in cash from the European Union, all while native Europeans are being replaced demographically, racially, spiritually, and culturally in their own homeland.

  

September 4, 2015: Germany's Merkel regime opens Europe's borders.

 

Who is facilitating all this? The 'king daddy' above everything is the United Nations (UN) and its migration wing, the International Organization for Migration (IOM). You find them at every key border crossing. Then, of course, there is the European Commission and its degenerate, omnipresent bureaucracy. At the lower levels, you find all sorts of other criminal organizations and enterprises; utterly corrupt, opportunist European governments using migration as blackmail for financial aid; and a myriad of publicly funded, so-called international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), such as the Red Cross, Catholic charities, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). Every one of them deserves investigation and prosecution, yet they continue to operate with total impunity.

"Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?"

Population Division, UN DESA, New York, March 21, 2000.

 

Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on the "Global Compact for Safe, 

Orderly and Regular Migration," A/RES/73/195, Marrakesh, Morocco, December 19, 2018. 

 

» The 2030 Agenda recognizes... migrant women, men and children... as agents of development. « 

"Migration and the 2030 Agenda. A Guide for Practitioners." IOM, 2018.

 

Nowadays, starting mostly from Mauritania, an Islamic Republic in West Africa, via the nearby Spanish Canary Islands, the end point of this mass migration is continental Western Europe, where the benefits are highest. These were the richest countries in the world, but they no longer are. Of course, the immediate and direct results of this influx have been not only rampant crime and rape, but also the radical decline in public security, quality of life, stability of cities, and an insane deterioration and collapse of fiscal, legal, education, healthcare, and pension systems across the board. 

 

» Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. 

Jews are going to be at the center of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are 
now moving into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. 
But without that leading role and without that transformation, Europe will not survive. « 

Barbara Lerner Spectre, Founding Director, Paideia Stockholm, 2010.

 

» For every boat [full of migrants] that arrives [to the Canaries], the [Mauritanian] mafia gets between 50,000 to 60,000 euros  [from the Spanish government]. It’s all a game! And Spain wouldn't want this to stop. Every year Spain receives more than 3 billion euros from the European Union. Out of that 3 billion, Spain keeps 2 billion. Then the Spanish take the  other 1 billion in cartons, in boxes, or in suitcases, put it on a flight, and it goes to Mauritania. There they speak with, say, ten people from the very top. For those people, the money isn't sent by check or by bank transfer. It’s in cartons; it’s in luggage. They are paid in cash. « 
IOM representative to the Canaries, teaching basic economics of mass migration and 'refugee crisis,' 2025.

 

However, perpetually financed with billions of euros by the EU Commission in Brussels, European governments keep flying these people by the thousands from the Canaries to the mainland and putting them in camps all across Europe, where they just eat, sleep, and roam on the taxpayers' dime for years, waiting for their 'asylum papers.' Nobody seems to care that certain fish don't mix in the same aquarium, that the native populations don't want them, or that they haven't added anything to these countries. 

» The total cost to support 2 million 'refugees' over the next three years was estimated at 900

billion euros—more than twice the [German] federal government's annual budget for 2014. « 

Migrant 'camps' in Paris, January 23, 2026.

Paris 2026. Indistinguishable from Africa. 

 

Helsinki Cathedral 2025: Huge provocation. Won't end well.

 

Is it reversible? You could stop it tomorrow; these are still the most powerful countries on earth. This is collective self-extermination, and if more Europeans knew and understood the extent of all this, they'd be up in arms in the streets against their governments. But it’s getting to a point where it might be too late. In Germany, they can't even raise a national army because it would be majority Muslim, and they are afraid to give weapons to hundreds of thousands of young Muslim men. Every day that goes by, it gets worse. Reversing it now would involve serious civil conflict because these migrants are high-testosterone men who will fight back. In Calais, France, someone was beheaded in a parking lot not far from where we were. When I met with a UN/IOM worker, he sold me an Excel sheet for 600 bucks showing that the vast majority of arrivals—over 95%—are men. There are almost no women or children. This is the end of Europe, and the West in general.

 

Reference:

Anthony Rubin (January 23, 2026) - We Followed the World’s Deadliest Illegal Mass Migration Route. (video)

  

January 23, 2026: Spain is set to approve a decree legalizing more than 500,000 undocumented immigrants. 

This move provides full EU legal status, enabling them to live and work across Europe while accessing public benefits.

 

 » The result will be a mixed new population with an average IQ of 90

—too dumb to grasp anything, but intelligent enough to work. « 

TPR (June 10, 2016) - The US Weapon of Mass Migration and the Coerced Suicide of Europe.  

What goes around, comes around.

Anthony J. Rubin (29), is the Miami-based founder of Muckraker, a guerrilla media outlet specializing in high-threat undercover exposés on global migration and NGO/government involvement in border crises. A self-described Libertarian Nationalist and America First advocate, he embeds in danger zones to produce documentaries like "Inside the Darién Gap" and "Replacing Europe" alongside his brother, Joshua. Their work combines hidden-camera investigations with a focus on US sovereignty and the rejection of globalism and interventionism.

United Kingdom Configured for Civil War Within the Next 5 Years | David Betz

At first glance, the distant and telegenic United Kingdom may appear to most outsiders as one of the least likely countries to experience widespread civil unrest, typical of failed regimes. However, years of uncontrolled large-scale immigration, multiculturalism, economic decline and impoverishment, injustice, oppression, the COVID-19 craze, public insecurity, corruption, enforced wokeness, media indoctrination, permanent war-and-terror hysteria, a surveillance state, and individual intimidation and submission have led to widespread and stark religious, educational, moral, and ethical degeneracy across all social realms, Zionist and Wahhabi-Salafi-controlled extremism, as well as nearly omnipresent discontent and tension. As a result, the failed UK regime now seems to be on the brink of precisely that.
 

Professor David J. Betz, a top academic and government advisor, expects that the UK will experience a civil war within the next five years, caused by the "destruction of legitimacy" brought about by the government's failure to secure the border. Betz made these claims during a remarkable, profound, and shockingly plausible podcast appearance with journalist and author Louise Perry.

 

» This is worse for Europe than bombs falling out of the sky. The enemies
of Europe know this, which is why this is their weapon of choice. « 

 

Betz is neither alarmist nor sensationalistic. He has been researching and teaching at the Department of War Studies at King's College London for the past 25 years, focusing on the evolution of insurgency and counterinsurgency, information warfare and cyberwar, propaganda, civil-military relations, hybrid warfare, and grand military strategy. He has worked with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in addition to being a contributor to the current British counter insurgency doctrine (COIN) and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Professor Betz describes himself as a “classic member of the establishment” and explained Perry in concrete detail why and how British society is now "explosively configured" to experience mass unrest, critical infrastructure sabotage, and subsequent total breakdowns in institutions, society, economy, logistics, and law, along with excessive crime, violence, and anarchy. 

 

Now, what could and should be done to prevent all of this—power outages, burning cities, destroyed communication infrastructure, gang violence, looting, population displacement, famine, epidemics, and more? The UK is beyond repair; it's too late, and nothing and no one can stop this from happening, concludes Betz. When from London, Manchester, Birmingham, and similar places, you may already have some experience, but might want to learn additional valuable lessons from recent examples like Aleppo, Benghazi, Caracas, Mogadishu, Lagos, or Port-au-Prince. Have a solid community, family, and friends, be prepared with food, water, cash, skills, and more, and try to mitigate the impending damage and consequences, Betz recommends.

 

 » Caused by the destruction of legitimacy. «

 Between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham 1,400 girls were sexually abused by Pakistani grooming gangs. 

And by 2020, a Home Office investigation report finds no links between ethnicity and child sexual abuse.

He said the fallout began with the fracture of the social contract after the political establishment in the UK tried to subvert the Brexit vote. Subsequent years have brought about a “destruction of legitimacy” as a result of successive governments’ open border policy and their inability to protect children and citizens from grooming gangs and rampant violence, in addition to a two-tier justice system presided over by a highly-politicized judiciary defending globalism, wokism, and illegal mass immigration. 

 

Given the situation today, this British scenario may apply, in one form or another, to most Western European countries, Canada, and possibly the US.

Reference:
David Betz talks with Louise Perry (February 12, 2025) - The Coming British Civil War. (podcast)

 

 The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor, Lyndon LaRouche, 1994.

See also:

Martin Sellner (March 11, 2025) - Europe Has Had Its Soul Colonized.

Constantin von Hoffmeister (February 24, 2025) - Waiting for the Axe of History to Fall.

Markku Siira (February 18, 2025) - The Sidonius Apollinaris Syndrome.

了解你的敌人
Know your Enemies.

The Sidonius Apollinaris Syndrome | Markku Siira

If people don't want to witness the growth of certain crisis phenomena, the 21st century is relentlessly sweeping over them. Russian historian Andrei Fursov has coined the term "Sidonius Apollinaris Syndrome" to describe this. He draws inspiration from Sidonius Apollinaris, a Christian bishop, writer, and poet in ancient Rome. A significant collection of letters he wrote to friends and family has survived, offering an essential look at 4th-century history. In one of these letters, Sidonius describes the world as a peaceful and tranquil place. He writes: ”We are living in magnificent times, peace and tranquility reign everywhere; I sit by the pool at my villa, a dragonfly hovers over the water, the world is beautiful.” However, not long after, the Roman Empire collapsed. Fursov points to this historical blindness, noting that it is "partly due to ignorance and partly simply a reluctance to see and understand."

 » We are living in magnificent times, peace and tranquility reign everywhere; 

I sit by the pool at my villa, a dragonfly hovers over the water, the world is beautiful. «
Gaius Sollius Modestus Sidonius Apollinaris: Aristocrat, Poet, Diplomat, Senator, Prefect of Rome, Consul,

Bishop of Clermont, Torchbearer of Faith, Father of the Church, Saint of the Roman Universal Church, 450 AD.

Not even a year later, in June of 451 AD, Gaul was overrun by the Huns under Attila. 

Today, we live in an era of political and economic stagnation, marked by an increasing number of global conflicts. The situation seems to worsen with every passing day. Fursov argues that we are witnessing the "quantitative accumulation of negative trends," and at some point, "quantity turns into quality." In other words, these trends may reach a tipping point, leading to a dramatic change. Historical events can unfold quickly and unexpectedly. Fursov recalls a friend's grandmother commenting on the collapse of the Soviet Union, saying, "You can’t imagine how fast it happened. Before lunch, all the shops were still open, but by lunchtime, everything had already shut down." This sudden shift demonstrates how societal structures can unravel at a startling pace.

Fursov believes that old structures and institutions are beginning to falter in the modern world. He underscores that such periods of transformation often lead to the renewal or collapse of social and political systems. The European Union, for example, could face collapse due to internal contradictions and external pressures. Could we be witnessing the disintegration of a new "Eurostate" that would dramatically reshape Europe’s political landscape?

 In 451 AD, Attila the Hun, leader of the Huns, invaded the Western Roman Empire, specifically Gaul

(modern-day France), marking a significant military campaign against the weakened Roman state.

Similarly, the political polarization within the United States, Trump’s foreign policy stance, and the rise of Russia and China may weaken NATO’s influence in the West. This could result in a series of power-political upheavals, where traditional alliances fall apart, leading to new global power structures.

 

» Characteristic of dark times in history. «

Fursov advises that in order to survive under harsh conditions, it’s crucial to analyze and understand current trends. But it’s equally important to be physically prepared for scarcity. "The entire 21st century will be filled with battles on all levels," he warns—within the elite, between the elite and the middle class, and between the lower classes and the elite. This kind of turmoil is characteristic of dark times in history. Additionally, the massive influx of migrants contributes to the chaos, creating a situation resembling the Brownian movement. In this environment, Fursov argues, one must be ready to seize opportunities as they arise. Over the next 20-30 years, he believes, people will be united by a common desire to preserve their place in history as bearers of a particular civilization and cultural code. However, this tradition, which is over a thousand years old, is now under threat.

Unfortunately, the current trajectory offers little reason for optimism. Globalization, technological revolution, and the erosion of cultural identity seem to be intensifying. If we fail to stop and assess where we are headed, we risk ending up in a world where the past is forgotten, and the future is severed from its roots.

Quoted from:
Markku Siira (February 3, 2025) - Andrei Fursov ja seuraava suuri kriisi.

 

了解你的敌人
Know your Enemies.