Sweden, Once Welcoming to Immigrants, Changes Course – By Elliott Davis Jr. (US News) / Dec 30, 2022
Experts say the country’s proposed immigration policy changes – part of a new government coalition agreement – could have concerning repercussions.
As the end of a hectic year approaches – one that saw Russia invade Ukraine in February and spark a war showing few signs of ending – a migration crisis is brewing across Europe.
Countries in the European Union received nearly 100,000 asylum applications in October, which was its highest monthly total in six years and even exceeded the numbers from several months during the refugee crisis of 2015 and 2016, according to the union’s asylum agency. The October total does not even include the millions of Ukrainians who have fled the war so far.
But one EU country traditionally welcoming of immigrants is hatching plans that will make immigration and integration there more challenging moving forward.
