© LajkatFinance Minister Magdalena Andersson
The Swedish finance minister, Magdalena Andersson, in a Friday interview for the newspaper
Dagens Nyheter said that Sweden made a mistake by accepting thousands of asylum seekers in 2015.
It is the first such statement of the politician from the ruling Sweden's Socialist Working Party, whose coalition government together with the Green Party, welcomed over 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015."The integration [of immigrants] does not go as it should. We had a problem with it before the autumn of 2015 (when Sweden accepted a wave of migrants). For me
it is obvious that we cannot accept more asylum seekers than we can integrate. It will not be good either for people who come here or for the whole society," said the Swedish Finance minister Magdalena Andersson.
According to the politician, people who come to Sweden "face a very tense situation" while greater housing and education opportunities exist in other European countries. "I think these people [immigrants] have a better chance if they seek asylum in another country," Andersson admitted.
The Minister of Finance told the newspaper
Dagens Nyheter that
her own Social Democratic Workers Party was to blame for the tense situation in Sweden in connection with the admission of immigrants on such a massive scale."We have a reason for self-criticism, it should have been clear beforehand that we were not able to accept more people than our country can cope with" - said Magdalena Andersson.
Comment: Better to realize it late than never. But really, did they not think seriously about this at the time? Sweden already had experience with the difficulty of integrating tens of thousands of Balkan refugees in the 1990s.
Anyone who couldn't see this coming, nor the (quasi) ulterior motives behind the immigration 'crisis' forced on Western Europe's Countries is a flat line idiot.
This disaster could not and would not have happened had those countries not given up their individual sovereignty to the E.U., and its enforcer/thug, NATO.
Since Gorbachev, all that NATO has offered these countries is a 'protection racket', in mobster parlance.
R.C.