Migration and asylum

The Swedish Minister for Justice and Migration Mr Morgan Johansson will complete his first visit to Bangladesh, today. The main purpose of his visit was to deepen the relations between the two countries in the key area of migration, in light of Bangladesh's chairmanship of the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

On 8 May, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven received Austria’s Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann and Germany’s Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel for talks on current European issues.

Women in Parliaments Summit 2016 Amman, Jordan, 5 May 2016 Check against delivery.

On Thursday 28 April, the Government decided on a bill proposing that Swedish asylum regulations be temporarily brought into line with the minimum level in EU law and international conventions.

Swedish national statement, New York 18 April, 2016. Check against delivery.

Swedish rules of asylum will be temporarily brought into line with the minimum level in EU law and international conventions. The legislative proposal is now being sent to the Council on Legislation.

Geneva 30 March 2016. Check against delivery.

The right to assistance will cease to apply for people whose refusal-of-entry or expulsion order has become final and non-appealable. This is what the Government is proposing in a Bill to the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament). The proposal does not apply to families with children and is part of the agreement reached by the Government and the centre-right parties in October 2015.

On the first day of the European Council on Thursday 17 March, the EU leaders agreed on a joint position on cooperation with Turkey. Friday’s talks with Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu resulted in an agreement on migration issues aimed at stopping the irregular flow of refugees and ending human smuggling. Sweden was represented by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.

The right to assistance will cease to apply for people whose expulsion order has become final and non-appealable. This is what the Government lays out in a proposal submitted to the Council on Legislation. The proposal does not apply to families with children and is part of the agreement reached by the Government and the centre-right parties in October 2015.

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On Tuesday 19 January, Minister for Home Affairs Anders Ygeman met with the Speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives, Rachid Talbi Alami.

The Government has previously announced a temporary law on restrictions to the possibility of being granted a residence permit in Sweden. The proposal, which aims to adapt the Swedish asylum regulations to the minimum level in the EU, is now being sent out for consultation.

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Opinion piece by Margot Wallström, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Isabella Lövin, Minister for International Development Cooperation. Expressen 4th of February 2016.

Meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition against Daesh, Rome, 2 February 2016. Check against delivery.

Prime Minister Stefan Löfven attended the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum on 20–21 January 2016 in Davos, Switzerland.

On Monday 11 January, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven will receive Latvia’s President Raimonds Vējonis for talks. The talks will focus on bilateral relations, the migration issue, the security policy situation in the neighbourhood and relations with Russia.

This year Sweden and Afghanistan celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations. The excellent relations were reaffirmed during the visit of H.E President Ashraf Ghani to Stockholm on 4 December 2015.

The Swedish Government decided today to prolong internal border controls from 12 December to 20 December 2015.