Sweden: government seeks to cut low-skilled immigration

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On 15 February, Swedish migration minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, of the conservative Moderate Party, presented a number of proposals aimed at tightening conditions for the immigration of low-skilled labour from third countries.

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