Sweden to Hungary: It Is Not OK to Use us as an Example of Failed Mass Migration Policies

https://t.sr.se/2GjKvgj | Swedish Education Minister Gustav Fridolin visited Hungary this week telling the Hungarian government and ruling Fidesz party to stop using Sweden as an example of failed mass migration policies.

The Education Minister, who is also a member of the Green party, travelled to Hungary to meet with leaders of Politics Can Be Different (LMP) party to discuss issues of education.

Fridolin said he was also concerned about the rhetoric used by the Fidesz party headed by Prime Minister Viktor Orb'an, which has pointed to the negative impacts of mass migration in Sweden ahead of April's general election, Sveriges Radio reports.

"We have our problems and challenges the same as you probably have in Hungary. At the same time, we now see how people who have come from other countries to Sweden get more work, get involved, and contribute and make Sweden their own. It is obviously a description of reality that is also needed," Fridolin said.

"The picture that Sweden, when we had and received so many asylum seekers, still has a positive development when it comes to economy and work, it actually needs to be there too," he added.

Hungarians are set to go to the polls on April 8th and the Fidesz party has made mass migration one of the key pillars of the campaign.

This week, Orb'an gave a speech on Hungarian radio saying: "Europe is full. Its external borders must be defended, and migrants must not be brought in - they must be kept outside Europe."

And earlier this month, the Prime Minister gave a speech to a large crowd on Hungary's national day saying: "Day by day we see the great European countries and nations losing their countries: little by little, from district to district and from city to city. The situation is that those who do not halt immigration at their borders are lost: slowly but surely they are consumed."