Monday, March 7, 2011

Sweden will facilitate immigration

Stockholm, correspondence - "History!" It's an exclamation expressing as much satisfaction that the relief that the Conservative Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt, has welcomed the agreement reached last weekend by the parties in his center-right coalition and the Green Party on immigration policy.

The minority government feared above all to be left to thank you from the far-right party the Sweden Democrats (SD) with twenty members who are in position to tip the majority. The Greens, part of the opposition, alongside the Social Democrats and Left Party, chose to reach out to the government.

They have won concessions from the government. Now, undocumented migrants have in fact entitled to care and their children to school. It was non-negotiable condition from the Greens. The Red Cross noted, however, that the agreement does not specify if all undocumented migrants are affected by this measure.

Sweden was long criticized for denying them that right. The government is also committed to finding a solution to the rules that currently prevent family reunion for people from certain countries, including Somalia, often because the candidates do not have identity documents. To prevent abuse and facilitate identification, the authorities could in some cases resorting to DNA analysis.

Reform in favor of openness to immigrant labor is another important point negotiated between the government and greens. The government had rejected the social-democrats in these discussions, believing that they, like unions, are not favorable. The Social Democrats reply that they are concerned that immigrant labor is exploited in Sweden, as is already happening in some sectors such as catering.

For Swedes, it is a way to secure the future of the welfare state which will require manpower to medium term because of the massive retirement of certain age groups and aging population. Details of all these measures, however, should be known that this spring. The Greens, however, failed to stop deportations to Iraq to continue and cause much protest.

Since the entry of the extreme right in parliament in September 2010, the government of Fredrik Reinfeldt held firm and refused any concession to the party from neo-Nazism. Officially, the government officials do not negotiate with members of the SD, to the chagrin of the President of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Ã…kesson.

The latter, however, said he believed that this new policy will open the borders of Sweden will ultimately favor his party. "The debate on these issues will intensify and we will help." Nearly 100,000 people immigrated to Sweden in 2010. Besides returning to Swedish Nordic countries and which constitute the bulk of immigrants, the main groups are Somalis (6800) and Iraqis (4500).

Of the 9.4 million inhabitants of Sweden, 18.4% of them are foreign-born or born abroad or born in Sweden with two foreign parents. Olivier Truc

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