Sweden Rejects Increased Immigration

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The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats have succeeded in toppling the centre-left government after just two months in power, meaning Sweden will have its first mid-term elections in more than half a century on March 22.

In other European countries where anti-establishment parties — the UK Independence party, National Front in France, Podemos in Spain and True Finns in Finland — are shooting up in the polls, mainstream parties are likely to be looking at Sweden on how to avoid a similar fate.
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Even though 95,000 immigrants are expected next year in the country – up from 18,000 a decade ago and 54,000 last year – the Sweden Democrats are alone in talking of imposing limits.

But public opinion is more negative, with 38 per cent of Swedes disapproving of the government’s handling of immigration and 65 per cent thinking immigrants were integrating poorly, according to a survey for the German Marshall Fund.

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