Published March 27, 2024 at 10:32 a.m.
Domestic. The government is now boasting that it has ensured that the left-wing bureaucrat Mikael Ribbenvik got a new top job as deputy head of the EU's asylum agency.
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Mikael Ribbenvik drew attention yesterday when he accused the Sweden Democrats of being behind the fact that he had to quit as director general of the Migration Agency last year.
Former head of the Migration Agency: SD's fault that I was allowed to go.
"The asylum activist" Mikael Ribbenvik's bitter comment.
"It has turned out as SD wants." https://t.co/IanA01Iitt
— Fria Tider (@friatider) March 26, 2024
But as compensation, he has now received a new top post – as deputy head of the EU's asylum agency EUAA.
Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) writes on X that the government “has worked hard for his candidacy”.< /p>
She also notes that “EUAA's role will become increasingly important in the future”. This is not least in the implementation of the EU's immigration pact with forced distribution of asylum seekers, a pact that the Swedish government played a key role in negotiating.
Mikael Ribbenvik was personally responsible for a sharp increase in asylum immigration to Sweden. In 2012, for example, he decided, then as head of law at the Migration Agency, that all Syrians who came to Sweden illegally would automatically receive a permanent residence permit. This individual decision led to Sweden becoming one of the main targets for Syrians seeking their happiness in Europe.
The new mission upsets many on the right, and Maria Malmer Stenergard's post has received hundreds of negative responses.
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Kent Ekeroth (SD), for example, calls the government's behavior “senseless”.
So – how is it possible that the current government ” worked hard” for an asylum activist who completely opened Sweden's borders to now become vice president of the EU's asylum agency?
Senseless. https://t.co/Nz8zHrSOBp
— Kent Ekeroth (@kentekeroth) March 27, 2024
Alternative for Sweden's party leader Gustav Kasselstrand describes it as Ribbenvik – rather than being “fired” from the Migration Agency – has been promoted.
Oh my god. The government thus appoints the asylum fanatic Mikael Ribbenvik as deputy head of the Migration Agency at EU level!
Ribbenvik has therefore not been fired (as the Tidö parties wanted us to believe). This is a real promotion now that the EU is getting a common immigration policy. https://t.co/waAswv4AAa
— Gustav Kasselstrand (AFS) (@gustavkassel) March 27, 2024