The thinking behind the European Commission’s plans to boost labour migration via “talent partnerships” with third countries is the same that has previously ‘justified’ policies responsible for “parallel societies, Islamisation and an explosive increase in crime.”
That is according to MEP Charlie Weimers, whose Sweden Democrats party intends to “resist” the “naive” measures in the European Parliament and beyond.
EU:s 'talangpartnerskap' banar väg för massinvandring.
— Charlie Weimers MEP 🇸🇪 (@weimers) March 19, 2025
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Writing in Riks, Weimers said the plan to introduce new talent partnerships with Senegal, Nigeria, and others was a thinly veiled “attempt to increase immigration to Europe.” Not only that, but one which isn’t even required in the first place, given the more than 12 million people in EU countries who have been unemployed for over a year.
He added that there had been a “lack of serious impact analyses” on the measures, which amount to a “direct attack on national identities and cultures.” As such, and more broadly,
We are pursuing a zero vision for culturally burdensome immigration to Sweden and Europe, the expulsion of all illegal immigrants, return programs for groups that have not been assimilated, and the protection of the European community, culture, identity and our values.
The Commission has previously attempted to justify talent partnerships with third countries by saying it is better to welcome foreign workers than for these to be “smuggled or trafficked and drowned in the sea”—as if it wouldn’t be better to simply deter migrants from attempting these dangerous crossings in the first place.
Brussels officials have also expressed their desire to invite “as many [migrants] as possible” to Europe under the expanding scheme, contrary to repeated demands from voters across the Continent for stricter—not more liberal—border controls.
