Carl Deconinck
15 March 2024
Louise Meijer, an
MP for Sweden’s centrist Moderate party, apologised to voters for her previous position on open borders. She regrets “making mistakes” by “pleading for openness and refugees [being] welcome”, she says.
Meijer says she “changed her mind” over her views, in an opinion
piece for
Expressen this week.
“Now, instead, I am advocating an even stricter migration policy than the one I opposed at the time,” she says.
Political sentiments around migration have shifted swiftly in Sweden, with now even leaders of the Social Democrats
saying they favour more strict migration policies.
Sweden today is a “completely different country than it was at the end of the 20th century”. Per capita, it has “received the most immigrants in the Western world” in modern times, Meijer writes.
Today, “more than a third of Sweden’s population has a foreign background. In 1987, the corresponding figure was 11 per cent.”
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