“Significant problems” with foreign-born people unemployed and living at state expense: Sweden wants to make it harder for non-European migrants to access social benefits

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The right-wing Swedish government wants to make it more difficult for non-European immigrants to access social services. “More than 770,000 people have emigrated to Sweden from countries outside the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA) since 2012,” said the leaders of the three-party coalition and the far-right Sweden Democrats, who form the minority government. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (59) tolerated this on Friday in an opinion piece for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

“Together with an integration policy that made almost no demands (on migrants) and offered no incentives to integrate into society, extensive immigration has created a divided Sweden,” the party leaders wrote, complaining of “segregation, social exclusion, unemployment and poor school performance. and a lack of common Swedish values”.

“Significant problems”

There are also “significant problems” with people born abroad who are unemployed and have to live on state expenses, the article said. The authors did not provide specific figures. According to their own statements, they want to limit social benefits for non-EU and non-EEA citizens so that in the future they will no longer receive various benefits such as child benefit, housing benefit, unemployment benefit, sickness benefit and parental benefit. Furthermore, this immigrant group should be required to learn Swedish and look for work.

Since the 1990s, Sweden, a country of 10.3 million inhabitants, has taken in countless people from crisis countries such as the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Somalia. Last month, Prime Minister Kristersson attributed recent rampant gang violence in Sweden to “irresponsible immigration policies and failed integration.”

Death of two football fans

The death of two Swedish football fans in an Islamist-motivated attack in Brussels at the beginning of this week also caused discussion. Among the two victims: the Swiss Patrick L.* (†60).

The accused perpetrator, a Tunisian, had unsuccessfully applied for asylum in Norway, Sweden and Italy in addition to Belgium, but was not deported. (AFP)

* Name of the editor known

Source: Blick