Young Swedes: Leave the EU – so we can cut passports

Published December 25, 2024 at 2:23 p.m.

Domestic. A Sweden that resembles the idyll from Bullerbyn is not at all impossible. But it requires making the necessary decisions – and leaving the EU. This is what Ungsvenskarna writes in a debate article in ETC.

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Despite its left-wing character, the magazine ETC has invited what they call the politicians and decision-makers of the future to write debate articles on a more or less conservative theme: how they want Sweden to look in 25 years.

In the debate article from the SD youth organization Ungsvenskarna, representatives Denice Westerberg and Vilgot Hansson write that they want Sweden to be a significantly more idyllic country, less characterized by crime and EU bureaucracy than it is today.

And they highlight that Sweden must be ready to revoke citizenship for criminal, disloyal or non-contributing immigrants – and to leave the EU so that the Union's citizenship rules do not hinder such a process.

“It is time to leave half-hearted compromises behind us,” Westerberg and Hansson write, noting that we “must be able to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who commit crimes or do not show loyalty and a desire to contribute to our society.” The duo continues: “This change requires an independent Sweden – free to decide on its own affairs. EU membership has limited our freedom of action and drained resources on inefficient bureaucracy. By 2050, we want to see a Sweden that has left the EU and can therefore fully shape its own future.” The parent party, the Sweden Democrats, has also started talking about revoking citizenship in the autumn, but since the party wants to be in the EU, this cannot be done in practice except in rare exceptional cases. The views on both remigration and compromises therefore appear to differ slightly between the SD leadership and their youth organization. “My whole being is compromise,” has SD leader Jimmie Åkesson, for example, has declared previously.