Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) will meet his counterpart, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate Coalition Party, in Sweden on Thursday in Stockholm. The next day, the chancellor travels to Denmark to look specifically at the country’s social security system.
In addition to economic cooperation, the agenda of the visit to Sweden also includes dealing with refugees in Europe. Nehammer hopes that the trip to the north will also give him inspiration for his own politics.
In his chancellor’s speech, he announced that he would develop a model for Austria in which full entitlement to social benefits would be possible only after five years of residence. This will also be discussed at Friday’s meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, a Social Democrat.
Closer cooperation on migration issues
Austria also wants to cooperate more closely with Denmark on migration. The northern EU state had also recently campaigned for an expansion of border security at the Union’s external borders, describing the European asylum system as “broken”. Denmark has also been conducting bilateral border controls since 2016.
In addition, the Chancellor will also attend business meetings in Sweden. Among other things, he will visit the Stockholm energy company Exergi and exchange views with the President of Business Europe and a group of senior CEOs. Sweden is the most important trading partner of the Scandinavian countries.
Source: Krone
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