SWEXIT NEXT? Increased immigration sparking Sweden’s rise in Euroscepticism, claims report
THE Swedish public has become the second most Eurosceptic country in the EU, it has been revealed in a shocking report today.
By SIOBHAN MCFADYEN
Express.co.uk
Tue, Feb 14, 2017
And there is growing mistrust of politicians as the country tries to cope with the fallout of the European migrant crisis.
According to research by UK Think Tank Demos, 25 per cent of the population are keen to leave the bloc, while a further 32 per cent want Brussels powers to be curbed.
The news comes amid the country’s recent clampdown on immigration and a tightening of its asylum rules including a block on refugees bringing their families to the country.
Since 2000, the number of asylum seekers to Sweden has increased from 16,000 to 50,000-a-year but rocketed to 160,000 at the height of the migrant crisis.
Now the report says the population of immigrants in the Scandinavian country is at a record 16 per cent out of a population of 9.6 million.
The report states: “In 2016, we conducted cross-national surveys of citizens in France, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Spain and Sweden, which revealed a widespread sense of precariousness, uncertainty and pessimism, which was most clearly evidenced in public opinion on political trust and the EU, and respondents’ expectations for the future.
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