Permanent residence permits – or just temporary?
It will be a hard battle when the Liberal Party holds congress in the fall.
Liberal Party leader Jan Björklund account for more restrictive rules for migrants.
Birgitta Ohlsson, said Echo on Swedish Radio , going against the party leadership and present your own exercise.
And now she gets the support of a heavy migration expert – MEP Cecilia Wikström.
– When I behind a document on migration supported by all EU countries, so it would be nice if it could also be covered by my own party, she says to Expressen.
Jan Björklund and an “Integration Group” in the PF leadership spent last winter proposals for stricter rules for migrants who make it to Sweden.
• You want to give permanent residence only to quota refugees and families with children.
• Other refugees will have a temporary residence permit for three years until they started to work.
• Refugees need support themselves and have your own home to get bring in family members.
• There should be a requirement of proficiency in the Swedish language to get Swedish citizenship.
Birgitta Ohlsson, who sits on the party leadership and is FP’s foreign policy spokesperson, will, according to the echo, going against Jan Björklund’s proposal and present a counterproposal. It is, among other things, that permanent residency is the best thing for integration.
Expressen have searched Birgitta Ohlsson for comment, and she greets via the press office that she declines to comment on the matter.
But it is not only she who is critical of Björklunds line that will have significant opposition in the fall. One of them is the priest and the MEP (since 2009), Cecilia Wikström, who is very much involved in refugee issues. She says to Expressen:
– I had submitted a document to Jan (Bjorklund) that has caused the storm to me. I have not been involved in the Jan Björklund’s proposal and it is quite obvious that I will submit a counterproposal. It is a proposal that is not about integration, but about migration. The difference is not well understood. Temporary or permanent residence permit – it’s not about integration, without migration.
How to read your proposal you must submit?
– I can not say now because I have not written it finished. I have produced a document that has been the basis for the whole European Parliament approach to migration, and it was my report that formed the basis for what was groundbreaking: the first time voted it through at the last Strasbourg session.
– It is obvious, that if I have produced a document that is valid throughout Europe for all 28 countries, then I can not stand by and watch if my party vote for something that goes in a different direction.
Do you support your line in the party?
– I have just come back from Valetta in Malta. I’m invited to, as an expert, speaking with governments and parliaments across Europe. The only place that I’m not as obvious in my own party. I can not judge how others look at it, says Cecilia Wikström.
Gunnar Andren, for many years MP, leader writer and influential Liberals in the party, going against Jan Björklund’s proposal.
– The big bone of contention in the proposal is whether to grant a permanent residence permit or a temporary residence permit. At that point, I am critical of the proposal for a temporary permit. To come from difficult circumstances and forced to live under a lot of pressure with much uncertainty, is like to sit and wait for the fire, says Gunnar Andren.
The MP Tina Acketoft says:
– The great question and the bottom line is, I think, how people should enter the labor market.
and permanent or temporary residence permit?
– I think it is reasonable that one can look at how such a system can work when starting from a temporary residence permit for some groups, but also to make exceptions, for example for children, says Tina Acketoft from Skåne Arild.
Express have searched Jan Björklund, who declines to comment.
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