As expected, the national populist Sweden Democrats (SD) made another breakthrough in Sunday's Swedish parliamentary election.
Their advances were less than some expected, but that is due to the fact that mainstream parties have been taking the issues of immigration and crime more seriously.
This mainstream strategy earlier proved a success in Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria.
Still, not less than 41 percent of Swed...
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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.