Increasing the budget and tightening border controls to meet the refugee situation in Sweden

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The Swedish legislation will be temporarily brought into line with the minimum requirements in international conventions and EU law. At the same time, expenditure on migration will increase by €1.12 billion, primarily to improve the capacity of the municipalities to deal with the refugee crisis. Tightening border controls with for example ID checks have been introduced.

Author: Johan Fritzell