By lancer345 - 23 Nov 2020 12:00
- 23 Nov 2020 12:00
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Original French article (Le Monde): https://www.lemonde.fr/international/ar ... _3210.html
In Sweden, it is all about avoiding the migration “catastrophe” of 2015 at all costs
Five years ago, the Scandinavian kingdom received 163,000 asylum seekers. Today, a majority of political parties want to restrict reception conditions.
Echoing the "wir schaffen das" ("we will get there"), launched by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on August 31, 2015, the Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, insists, in Stockholm: "My Europe does not build walls. " Words that come to haunt him today.
Because if, five years later, the German Chancellor assures that she would take "the same essential decisions" , Stefan Löfven wants to do everything "not to return to the situation of autumn 2015", as he keeps repeating . For the first time, on September 9, the Social Democratic leader even made the link between the “importance of immigration” and the “tensions” within Swedish society.
In the public debate the failure of integration is no longer debated: social segregation, accentuated by the glaring lack of housing; unemployment of people born abroad three times higher than that of native Swedes; the violence of gangs, established in neighborhoods with a large immigrant population ...