Norway seeks to tighten immigration
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NORWAY’S government yesterday proposed emergency legislation to tighten its asylum rules after a rising number of people seeking protection entered the country in recent months.
The Nordic country of 5.2 million people, a member of the passport-free Schengen area but not of the European Union, expects to receive 20,000-25,000 asylum applications this year, a number it had to revise upwards several times since August.
Those numbers remain relatively modest compared with other European countries. With a population of under 10 million people, Norway’s neighbor Sweden expects to receive 190,000 asylum applications this year.
But the numbers are rising rapidly, particularly on Norway’s Arctic border with Russia, where over 4,000 people have entered the country this year, up from 10 last year.
The ruling coalition, made up of the center-right Conservatives and the anti-immigration Progress Party, wants the new rules to be passed by Parliament by the end of next week.
“The proposed legislative amendments will give the immigration authorities greater opportunity to refuse to process an asylum application if the asylum seeker has already resided in a safe third country,” Justice Minister Anders Anundsen said in a statement.
He added that the proposed changes would “enable the swift return to Russia of asylum seekers who have resided in Russia.”
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