In coronavirus-battered Sweden, there's a new crisis — a crumbling government
Conversely, if Löfven splits with the Greens and does a deal with the Moderates — with whom recent news reports suggest the Social Democrats are currently negotiating — on tougher asylum laws, that could rob the Sweden Democrats of some of their appeal with voters and potentially halt their sharp rise.
A shift by Sweden to a position similar to that of its more restrictive Nordic neighbor Denmark, which is what the Moderate Party is proposing, would potentially shift the overall balance in Europe in a more anti-migrant direction. After he took power, Löfven initially welcomed the wave of asylum-seekers from Syria and other war-torn places in what rapidly escalated into Europe’s refugee crisis of 2015.
“We don’t know yet how things will play out, and I very much hope that we won’t have a government crisis” —In an interview with POLITICO earlier this year, the Moderate Party’s spokesperson on immigration Maria Malmer Stenergard, spoke of a need for breathing space to allow Sweden to integrate those already granted asylum in Sweden.
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