Having grown up in Malmö, I have seen how border controls with Denmark affect an Öresund region whose everyday life has long depended on easy movement across the strait. Its political shift is neither uniquely Swedish nor evidence that the country has somehow ceased to be itself.
Having grown up in Malmö, I have seen how border controls with Denmark affect an Öresund region whose everyday life has long depended on easy movement across the strait.
Its political shift is neither uniquely Swedish nor evidence that the country has somehow ceased to be itself.
Reinfeldt's "open your hearts" Sweden faded in much the same European political moment as Angela Merkel's " Wir schaffen das " Germany.
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Having grown up in Malmö, I have seen how border controls with Denmark affect an Öresund region whose everyday life has long depended on easy movement across the strait. Its political shift is neither uniquely Swedish nor evidence that the country has somehow ceased to be itself. Reinfeldt's "open your hearts" Sweden faded in much the same European political moment as Angela Merkel's " Wir schaffen das " Germany.
To say that Sweden has therefore "lost its soul" goes too far.
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