The number of migrants granted asylum in Sweden dropped to the lowest level in 40 years in 2024 after a years-long crackdown on immigration under a succession of Governments. The Mail has the story.
Sweden stunned the world by taking in nearly 163,000 asylum seekers during the 2015 migrant crisis – the highest number per capita of any EU country.
But following a dramatic policy reversal, just 6,250 asylum-related residence permits were granted in the Scandinavian country last year, according to Migration Minister Johan Forssell, who cited fresh statistics from the Migration Agency.
That figure does not include Ukrainians, who have been granted temporary protection throughout the European Union.
The number of people who applied for asylum in Sweden in 2024 was 9,645, the lowest since 1996 and down by 42% since 2022.
The huge influx of migrants in 2015 onwards made it impossible to effectively integrate all of the new arrivals, Mr. Forssell has now said, with insufficient housing, schools and work opportunities.
This prompted successive Left and Right-wing governments to tighten rules around asylum, with the most hardline immigration policies coming in following the landmark 2022 election.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s centre-Right minority Government, propped up by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, brought in a sweeping package of reforms.
Recent measures introduced to reduce migration include the granting of only temporary residence permits to asylum seekers, tighter family reunification requirements and raising income requirements for work visas for non-EU citizens.
The current Government has also announced plans to offer immigrants $34,000 to leave the country, and to make it easier to expel migrants for substance abuse, association with criminal groups or statements threatening ‘Swedish values’.
Mr. Forssell, who has overseen the crackdown since he took up his office in September 2022, told reporters: “While the number of asylum seekers is historically low, the number being granted asylum is also low.
“Today, three out of four people seeking asylum in Sweden are not considered to have sufficient grounds to be granted residency. They are therefore not refugees, and they must return home,” he said.
Mr. Forssell noted that Sweden’s low levels stood out, with the number of asylum seekers in the European Union, Norway and Switzerland topping one million last year, nearing the level seen during the 2015 migrant crisis.
He said Sweden would need to continue to keep its numbers down in the coming years. …
Family reunifications have been tightened, residency permits are more easily revoked and asylum rights have been slashed to the bare minimum allowed under EU law.
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Donald Trump reinstates Winston Churchill bust in Oval Office
“Telegram from the Admiralty, sir!’
‘Winston is back!’
Oxfam ‘weaponising history’ with claim Britain owes India £52 trillion
The British rule in India lasted from the mid-18th century until 1947.
Benefits:
Infrastructure Development:
The British established a vast network of railways, roads, and ports, which facilitated trade and movement across the subcontinent. The Indian Railways, in particular, became one of the largest railway networks in the world.
Education System:
The British introduced a formal education system, including universities and colleges, which laid the foundation for modern education in India. English became a medium of instruction, which helped create a class of educated Indians who later played crucial roles in the independence movement. There are now 88 million pupils in India enjoying a private education because it is a great deal better than that provided by the State.
Legal and Administrative Reforms:
The British established a structured legal system and administrative framework, including codified laws and a judiciary. This helped in standardizing laws and promoting a sense of order and governance.
Economic Changes:
Britain integrated India into the global economy. The introduction of cash crops and new agricultural practices changed the economic landscape, leading to increased agricultural productivity in some regions.
Public Health Initiatives:
Britain implemented public health measures in India, including the establishment of hospitals and vaccination programs, which improved health standards in some areas. This included efforts to combat diseases like cholera and smallpox.
Transport and Communication:
Britain improved communication systems by introducing telegraphs and postal services, which connected different parts of the country and facilitated faster communication.
Cultural Exchange:
Britain led a cultural exchange that influenced art, literature, and architecture. The fusion of British and Indian styles produced unique forms of art and architecture, such as Indo-Saracenic architecture.
Social Reform Movements:
Britain also sparked social reform movements within India. Reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and others advocated for social changes, such as the abolition of sati (the practice of widow immolation) and child marriage, influenced by Western ideas of rights and freedoms.
Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, Bangalore
Government Museum, Madras
Hodson’s Horse
The Lahore Hunt
The Kadir Cup
Etc., etc…..and so on and so forth
Using the future value formula is FV=PV*(1+r)^n, where PV is the present value of the investment, r is the annual interest rate, and n is the number of years the money is invested, that comes out at approximately…….a great deal more than ‘£52 dillions’
When may we expect our money back?
On the downside we let the subcontinent partition itself again.
‘The question of a division of India, as proposed by the Muslim League, is based on the fundamental fact that there are two nations- Hindus and Muslims- and the underlying principle is that we want a national home and a national state in our homelands which are predominately Muslim and compromise the six units of the Punjab, the N.W.F.P., Sind, Baluchistan, Bengal and Assam. This will give the Hindus their national home and a national state of Hindustan, which means three-fourths of British India.’
Muhammad Jinnah, 04 May 1947
Quite so, but I don’t believe that a united ‘Greater India’ was, by that stage, any longer in our gift.
Totally agree. ‘We’ had made a right hash of abandoning Empire well before partition.
That said: I’ve briefly visited many countries on business trips (though not India or Pakistan) and it strikes me that ‘we’ left behind better functioning bureaucracies than other European ‘powers’.
So Muslims wanted their own Muslim state, and yet we accused of racism for wanting a Christian or secular state. Shame on them.
Why bother to argue these issues. The UK is broke. No money.
Worse than broke – in hock.
Indeed, and I now believe that the UK will continue to worsen and this condition will persist for decades if not permanently.
My apologies. The Lahore Hunt is, of course, now in Pakistan. I think they still exist. The PVH is still going.
https://m.facebook.com/pvhpak/
“Wanted – a politically and economically viable path to low emissions”
I read the opening paragraph and decided the rest could wait until I have nothing better to do.
Know your enemy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/21/british-left-has-to-take-feminism-lessons-donald-trump/
Julie Bindel has had an undeserved rough time and bravo for her to be still standing. I’m of a generation out of time with the mores of today but let’s not fall for the media version of Trump she outlines:
”He doesn’t like gender ideology in exactly the same way as other misogynists don’t like it – because women should be in the kitchen, barefoot, preferably pregnant, and men are men and women are women, in the most traditional and regressive way.”
Traditional doesn’t mean regressive. I worked then when I had our children Mr B worked while I stayed home with our children, that’s not regressive and I certainly wasn’t subjugated, we were and are still equal partners. I’ve worked with tradesmen who could curse and catcall with the best of them who when they swore in front of me they apologised, they were who would be called misogynists today but were just normal men. Trump doesn’t talk down to them.
Trump has stayed on good terms with his wives and his children respect him and work with him. He wasn’t the most articulate of people but seems to have calmed more listening to his inauguration.
Broad brushes don’t help anyone and the left seem to have the broadest brushes to tar people with.
Indeed. How on earth does Bindel presume to know that Trump thinks women should be barefoot in the kitchen? Where is her evidence for this? There’s some evidence that one way Trump sees women is as sex objects. Breaking news – that’s not uncommon (biology) but it doesn’t mean that is the ONLY way he sees them. I have the impression it’s not uncommon for women to sometimes view men as sex objects.
Exactly, but it’s typical nowadays. It puzzles me how people are absolutely certain of their viewpoint and won’t believe or listen to alternatives. I admit I have bias myself (being a Conservative) but if someone showed me that my viewpoint on anything was wrong without stooping to emotions I’m open to changing my mind, these people aren’t.
Are they’re not teaching critical thinking nowadays but motivated reasoning, appealing to feelings and emotions? Is education just indoctrination of the herd?
So the elites want us to believe that if this bloke had been told by Amazon “you’re too young to buy a knife” he would instead have gone back to his homework.
He wouldn’t have used the same ingenuity that he applied to manufacture ricin or travel to Southport or get the terrorist training manuals.
Meanwhile, Labour want to give him the vote.
Or, walked down to kitchen, open the cutlery drawer & take out a knife. Is there a home in Britain that doesn’t have carving knives, bread knives, vegetable knives, chisels, craft knives?
Classic misdirection by Yvette Cooper.
Indeed, what a crock of crap. Problem-reaction-solution. Import violent people, then stop everyone buying knives online.
Ed Miliband warns Trump that Net Zero is ‘unstoppable’”
Trump: ‘Who?’
‘Disgrace’ that Axel Rudakubana could buy a knife on Amazon’ says the brain dead Home Secretary. I wonder what conclusion she have come to if he’d gone into his parents kitchen and grabbed a knife from the cutlery draw?
Biden has done a great job confirming the guilt of all the crooks by pardoning them.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/20/her-name-is-emily-damari/ The left will never live down the shame of staying silent on the racist kidnapping of a British Jew, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
Silly Brendan hasn’t he learned? The left don’t feel shame.