The Table of Bills (propositionsförteckning) for the first half of 2026, published last week, lists all the government bills scheduled to be published this spring. It also indicates which ones it hopes to bring before parliament for a vote before the summer recess.
What will come as a relief to many readers is that the proposal to revoke existing permanent residency permits, made by a government inquiry at the end of September, has not made the list. The government might still include this in the table of bills for autumn 2026, which is typically published in the second week of September. But with an election scheduled for September 13th, it almost certainly won't be able to pass it.
It does, however, include the first set of proposals from that same controversial inquiry, which will make it impossible for many foreigners to be granted permanent residency in the future. The deadline for this bill to be published is March 26th.
There is a March 12th deadline for publication of the long-awaited bill to, among other things, extend the residency requirement for citizenship from five years to eight years. It will be interesting to see how they handle the planned language and civics tests, which are also part of the proposals but which the responsible universities have said could take up to three years to set up.
A new bill making it easier for people on work permits to change employers, which brings an EU directive into Swedish law, is supposed to be published by March 26th.
The bill hiking the minimum salary for a work permit to 90 percent of the median wage was published in December, so also doesn't make the list. Parliament is likely to pass it some time in March.
Becky Waterton, Editor, The Local Denmark
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