Posted on 09/07/2017 8:33:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Sweden’s main opposition party, the Moderates, want to tighten the rules for people seeking Swedish citizenship, suggesting a string of new measures they say will encourage integration and better correspond to the rules of other Nordic countries and Germany.
In an opinion piece published in daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter on Thursday, Moderate party members Tomas Tobé and Gunnar Strömmer said that the rules to become Swedish aren’t strict enough, and in some cases even hamper the integration of the country’s new citizens.
“Sweden should be an open country (…) But at the same time we have to make demands: Everyone is expected to contribute to their best efforts,” they wrote.
The authors said that today, Sweden differs from its Nordic neighbors in the sense that those applying for a Swedish passport only need to have lived in the country for a total of five years (three years if you’ve lived with a Swedish partner for at least two years).
There are also no demands on an applicant to speak the Swedish language or have any civic knowledge, and there are no legal measures to strip a person of his or her citizenship in terror-related cases. …
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