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Sweden puts a brake on Europe's common migration policy

2023-01-13T10:57:37.679Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - The number of migrants on European coasts continues to increase. So much so that the Mediterranean countries sometimes refuse to welcome them and send them further afield. While Germany is committed to a fair distribution of refugees within the EU, Sweden...


By Marc Pfitzenmaier (Welt)

Among the many points of contention in Brussels, the adoption of a common asylum policy is certainly the greatest source of disagreement.

While Member States had made relatively good progress on the issue last year, the year 2023 is starting on a downturn.

And those responsible are not the usual suspects, like Italy, ruled by post-fascist Giorgia Meloni, or Hungary, led by troublemaker Viktor Orbán, but the country that has held the EU presidency from the start. of the year.

It is indeed Sweden, which has long been able to boast of having the most liberal migration policy in Europe, which is the least enthusiastic about the idea of ​​adopting a common policy in this area.

In September, the minority Social Democratic government was ousted by a right-wing conservative alliance, tolerated by the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats (SD).

Read also“The success of the Democrats of Sweden is indexed to the denial of immigration”

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Source: lefigaro

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