Sweden’s triumphant shipwreck

On 26th February, Hungary approved Sweden’s application to join NATO. Almost two years after applying to join the Western alliance, and despite prolonged obstructionism from Hungary and Turkey, the Nordic country is finally in. On the face of it, a triumph for Sweden – and also for NATO. But it also marks the complete shipwreck of more than 100 years of hallowed, yet disastrous Swedish foreign and security policy.

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The challenge of migration

Migration – the movement of peoples away from the country of their birth – is a feature of the modern world. In itself it is often positive for the person migrating, and can also be positive for the country they migrate to. But when termed Immigration rather than Migration, and when viewed from the viewpoint of the recipient country’s host population, it is more often seen as problem, and can lead to very divisive politics, with many in the West in particular overtly hostile to immigration and immigrants. What, if anything, can be done about this?

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