Jimmie Åkesson (SD) signs Aftonbladet’s debate page that the EU is becoming a straitjacket for Sweden.
The leader of the Liberals, Johan Pehrson, says that it is completely out of the question that Sweden will leave the EU. Now Jimmie Åkesson comments on the statements in Efter fem.
– We have been bad at negotiating to our advantage. We must be more critical and offensive, he says about EU membership.
Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson wants to “evaluate Sweden’s membership in the EU”, he writes in Aftonbladet Debatt. The party leader of one of SD’s partner parties, Johan Pehrson, immediately expressed criticism of the statement and said that it was completely out of the question that Sweden would leave the EU. In today’s Efter fem, Åkesson expresses a continued negative attitude towards Brussels and he calls for a serious debate about the EU.
– During the 30 years that we have been members, we have been terrible at negotiating to our advantage. However, we have been good at over-implementing EU legislation in Swedish legislation.
The SD leader further says that Brussels has moved towards more supranationalism and that the EU has power over almost everything. However, he does not literally say that Sweden should leave the EU.
– If I had to decide, I would like to see an investigation in some form where you look at what EU membership has meant economically for Sweden and what it has meant for legislation.
“The collaboration is doing well”
Åkesson further says that the cooperation between the government parties is doing well. It is about the infected issue of the reduction obligation, where SD and the government have very different views of what proportion of biofuels should be mixed in petrol and diesel.
– We are four parties that have different entrances. As far as the reduction obligation is concerned, we are three out of four parties that actually promised it in the election campaign, and we were the party that wanted to go the farthest.
In addition, SD’s Mattias Karlsson wrote that the foundation for the parties’ cooperation depends loosely on whether the migration pact that the moderate Tomas Tobé was responsible for at the EU level goes through.
– That Mattias Karlsson says so is a statement of fact. If the government led by the Moderates does as they have done in the EU Parliament, then it is difficult to see how the Tidö agreement will be implemented.