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Poland Gets EU Migrant Pact Exemption Again - Sweden Gets Nothing

Brussels is set to let Donald Tusk's Poland skip the EU migration pact's relocation and payment rules for a second year. Sweden, one of the EU's biggest asylum receivers per capita since 2015, has been given no such break.

Kent Ekeroth
By Kent Ekeroth · Executive Director & Senior Political Analyst
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Poland Gets EU Migrant Pact Exemption Again - Sweden Gets Nothing
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Kent Ekeroth · Executive Director & Senior Political Analyst

Kent Ekeroth is Executive Director (VD) of Samnytt, a former Member of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag, 2010-2018) on the Committee on Justice, and an economist from Lund University. He writes from Stockholm on European migration policy, judicial reform, and international affairs.

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