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A street protest by hard-right Sweden Democrat supporters - while the party are not officially in government, they now yield considerable influence over policies (Photo: Wikimedia)

Swedish EU presidency makes their far-right a pan-European threat

New year, new Swedish leadership in the European Council. And in 2023 political pariahs, once associated with violent racists and swastika-wearing Nazi sympathisers, are dangerously close to the helm.

Like many, I assumed that the Swedish Presidency would be an opportunity to make progress on some of the EU's most pressing challenges; climate, refugee policy, gender equality, rule of law and democracy. But my hopes were dashed when it became clear that Sweden would have a rightwing con...

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A street protest by hard-right Sweden Democrat supporters - while the party are not officially in government, they now yield considerable influence over policies (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Malin Björk is a Swedish MEP for The Left in the European Parliament.

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