The demand on the EU: Strict immigration

Published 16 October 2024 at 07.48

Domestic. Migration and security are in focus when EU leaders gather for a summit in Brussels at the end of the week. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) emphasizes the need for a stricter migration policy.

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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has sent a letter to the EU before the meeting – the leaders with proposals for tougher measures to get asylum seekers to return if they do not have the right to stay.

At the same time, the possibility of creating asylum centers outside the EU's borders is being considered.

– Strict migration policy is absolutely necessary to cope with other difficult issues in Europe, says Ulf Kristersson to TT.

Kristersson also expresses understanding for Poland's temporary measures to stop the right to asylum and believes that national security must be prioritized.

< p>– The right to asylum is not adapted for countries like Russia to “instrumentalize” migrants and deliberately move them across borders into neighboring countries, he tells TT.

At the meeting, the situation in the Middle East will also be discussed. Kristersson wants the EU to put Iran's Revolutionary Guard on the terrorist list, an issue he hopes to get the other member states on board with.

Matilda Ernkrans (S), vice chair of the EU committee, welcomes the government's new position on the Revolutionary Guard, even though she considers it a “late awakening”.