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New rules aimed at tightening Sweden's migration policies to discourage further asylum seekers from seeking to enter the country will not come into force until at least next year, and possibly 2017, according to the Ministry for Justice and Migration.

The Swedish Migration Agency, Migrationsverket, announced on Thursday (22 October) that Sweden will likely receive 190,000 asylum seekers this year. This is more than double the previous estimate of 74,000 the agency issued last summer.

A surge in the number of refugees arriving in Sweden over the past few years has led the conservative Moderates, the country's biggest opposition party, to toughen its stance on immigration.

The Sweden Democrats, the far-right party that chose to bring down the newly-elected Swedish government earlier in December, is surging in the latest polls.

Sweden's centre-left government collapsed, after it failed to gather enough support to pass its budget through the national parliament, on Wednesday night (3 December).

There is still hope for meaningful decisions to be made at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, Swedish Ambassador Staffan Herrström told EURACTIV Poland in an exclusive interview.

Sweden yesterday (19 October) released a grainy photo of a mysterious vessel in waters around Stockholm, as its military hunted for a foreign submarine in the country's biggest such mobilisation since the Cold War.

On Thursday (2 October), the Riksdagen, Sweden's parliament, formally confirmed Stefan Löfven as the country's next prime minister.

At the height of the global financial crisis trade union leader Stefan Löfven, now set to become Sweden's prime minister after Sunday's election, did the unthinkable and cut a deal with employers, agreeing to pay cuts and shorter hours.