Swedish migration minister demands EU countries to give permanent residency permits
Negotiations on how the common asylum policy in the EU will look is still underway. The Swedish government is trying to influence the negotiations so that all EU countries are forced to hand out permanent residence permits to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers. But other countries do not want to agree.
At the moment, the various EU countries are negotiating how the future asylum policy will look.
According to Migration Minister Heléne Fritzon (S), Sweden can not have an asylum policy that is significantly different from the EU's forthcoming policy. That's what she says in Ekot's Saturday interview today.
Therefore, the Swedish government is trying to influence the other EU countries so that they can agree to issue permanent residence permits for asylum seekers coming to Europe.
- The Swedish position and the opening of the negotiations are permanent residence permits. But when I listen to the other Member States, I do not hear so many people say that, "said Heléne Fritzon to Ekot.
Sweden wants the residence permits to be permanent - throughout the EU.
But while Heléne Fritzon tries to push for a generous asylum policy in the EU, Sweden itself has applied, since last year, a restrictive and temporary asylum law for three years.
The temporary act means that Sweden has set a minimum level of asylum immigration with limited family immigration and that temporary residence permits are granted to asylum seekers. Fritzon even says that she plans to extend the temporary law in Sweden after 2019, something that the Moderates advocate. However, Mr Fritzon wants to wait for the negotiations in the EU, which she believes is very important.
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Permanent residence permits?!