Regardless of an imminent EU summit on migration in February, the brand new Swedish Council Presidency is displaying no signal of wanting to assist push via the bloc's lengthy gridlocked measures on the difficulty.
The EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum goals to reform Europe's strategy to migration, with a concentrate on shared duty and solidarity relating to migrants coming to the continent.
However with Stockholm, whose new right-wing authorities is propped up by the far-right Sweden Democrats, taking up the bloc's agenda-setting EU Council Presidency for the subsequent six months, hopes will not be excessive in Brussels.
Swedish Minister of Employment and Integration, Johan Pehrson, argues that extra migration might push down wages.
“It's a must to preserve it on a socially acceptable stage, with respectable wages...consistent with the reforms we've launched in Sweden to make sure that folks work for a good pay," he informed Euronews.
Studying the language, getting details about social companies, housing and employment are what migrants and refugees search at Caritas welcoming centre in Stockholm.
The Nordic nation has a protracted custom of welcoming foreigners, however based on George Joseph, Managing Director at Caritas Sweden, one thing has modified.
"A lot of the surveys present about 60% of the inhabitants was constructive in direction of migration till a couple of years in the past," Joseph mentioned.
"After which the entire thing modified, and partly additionally as a result of damaging narrative by political management making a narrative about connecting migration with all of the criminality and what went fallacious within the society and blaming the migrants and migration for all the things."
Two million folks in Sweden are foreign-born — about 20% of the inhabitants. Round 600,000 have their very own companies and contribute to the economic system, based on Caritas, however now they're dealing with increasingly mistrust.
Julius Ntobuah, a mediator at Caritas Sweden, informed Euronews that he arrived from Cameroon eight years in the past and has seen how the nation has slowly closed its doorways.
“I believe everyone knows that with the brand new authorities in place, it’s like: "“Goodbye!” Sweden is full, we don’t need extra folks," he mentioned.
"Which is unlucky as a result of we had been a really welcoming and beneficiant nation. However as time goes by, immigration legal guidelines have gotten very robust and harder. And, yeah, it is unlucky. I'd advise to not come as a result of it is not welcoming to be right here."
Even supposing there can be stress from the European Parliament and a few member states - particularly Italy - the Swedish authorities doesn't intend to have migration as a precedence.
It's probably that any selections taken can be throughout the Spanish EU Council Presidency, within the second half of the 12 months.
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