Radio Sweden Weekly: No transition rules as citizenship bill voted through

About this episode

This episode discusses the recent vote on tougher rules for Swedish citizenship and its implications.

This week a narrow majority of MP's in parliament voted through tougher rules for Swedish citizenship. There will be no transition rules for pending citizenship applications. We talk to the Swedish Migration Agency about the impact the new rules will have on citizenship applications. We hear from the debate in parliament on the citizenship vote and hear reactions from MPs. Also in the programme, we speak to security analyst Hans Brun about why Säpo needs longer time to investigate some citizenship applications. And we speak with some of the people affected by the new citizenship rules. Presented by Dave Russell and Liv Lewitschnik Reporter: Ulla Engberg Produced by Kris Boswell

People in this episode

Hosts: Dave Russell, Liv Lewitschnik

Guest: Hans Brun

Topics covered

• Swedish citizenship
• parliament vote
• migration rules
• security analysis
• citizenship applications

Keywords

• citizenship
• Sweden
• migration
• parliament
• Säpo
• Hans Brun
• citizenship applications
• MPs
• debate

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Swedish Migration Agency, Säpo

Places: Sweden

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