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Norway frets over flood of job-seeking Swedes
Swedish labour migration to Norway is threatening to nab jobs from the country's own job seekers, warned a Norwegian business association that also accused Sweden of political negligence.
Published: 04 Mar 2013 13:37 CET
"Norway cannot save Sweden from its youth unemployment," warned Dag Aarnes, director of Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon (NHO) in Norway.
He singled out Swedish and Polish workers when comparing labour migration figures to the number of jobs available on the Norwegian labour market.
"The Norwegian Migration Board says it expects about 50,000 EU migrants every year, with between 20,000 to 30,000 Swedes," Aarnes wrote in the report.
"Given that about 20,000 to 25,000 Norwegians look for new jobs every year, I think the combined total is too much for the Norwegian labour market."
Aarnes went on to write that countries such as Sweden and Poland had to focus on getting their domestic labour markets in order.
He specifically said that youth unemployment in Sweden needed to be addressed. Aarnes claimed that Norway's neighbour to the east "was not taking political responsibility" for the problem.
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You cannot be Hungarian and American not unless you are NATIVE American (Native Indian)
I suppose your comment is related to not wanting history to repeat itself ie " Europeans taking over their country and having more babies than ethnic Native Indians"
You have no idea what you are talking about. I have yet to meet a Swede in my generation (born in the 80s) who hasn't worked in Norway.
Oh no, not history repeating itself with the Crusades again! (right-wingers are coming)
Oh hang on a minute this time it is right-winger against radical Muslims.
Ok here is a suggestion for both sides, so the rest of us can live in peace, go to the moon fight it out and the winners can stay there with their own like-minded folk
Now there is a radical solution to the current job shortage!