Tighter border

Sweden will follow Denmark by introducing strict immigration controls, the leader of its populist opposition party has promised a week after launching a breakthrough deal with parties likely to take power next year. “Denmark was the same way as Sweden, and then it just changed overnight, and that will happen in Sweden too,” Jimmie Akesson said. Last Sunday, the Sweden Democrats and the three centre-right parties announced a proposal that for the first time showed them negotiating and setting migration policy together, something Akesson described as “a very important symbol” of co-operation.