Sweden's migration minister Johan Forssell has defended his government's decision to impose new citizenship requirements without transitional rules to protect people who have already applied, arguing that this is standard practice in Sweden..
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The Green Party is taking an unusual step to get a new vote on citizenship transitional rules to happen in parliament, as the deadline for the imposition of new rules approaches.
An initiative filed by the Green Party calling for a new bill adding transitional rules to the upcoming stricter citizenship law has been voted down by a parliamentary committee in what the Green Party have called "a ser…
Swedish MPs on the committee in charge of processing immigration laws are set to meet at 10am to discuss the opposition's bid for a new vote on adding transitional provisions to the recently passed citizenship law.
Sweden's Green Party has launched a 'committee initiative' in the parliament calling for a new vote on adding transitional provisions to the new citizenship law, after the populist Sweden Democrats won the vote by sendin…
At least three out of four opposition parties are demanding that parliament vote once again on the issue of transitional arrangements for the new stricter citizenship rules. The Local asked the parliamentary parties how…
The Swedish opposition is calling for a revote on attaching transitional rules to the citizenship reforms, after the Sweden Democrats controversially blocked its majority.
Sweden's opposition parties have agreed on a joint reservation to add transitional rules which will be voted on alongside the stricter citizenship bill when it goes before parliament at the end of April.
Fair Transition has succeeded in pushing the campaign to add transitional rules to Sweden's upcoming citizenship law up the political agenda. But what chance does it have of actually changing the law?
Sweden's Säpo security police has justified its opposition to adding transitional rules to an upcoming bill bringing in stricter citizenship rules, saying that the process of identifying possible threats "often takes a l…
Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell has told The Local that the decision to implement new citizenship rules with no transitional period, against the advice of the Council on Legislation and an official inquiry, is…
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