Why is Sweden deporting so many British citizens after Brexit?
by editors@theworld.org (Orla Barry) from The World: Latest Stories on (#77Z7J)
Sweden is ordering British citizens to leave at a far higher rate than any other EU country since Brexit. The UK Foreign Office calculates that Sweden has rejected more than a quarter of residency applications from British citizens, three times the rate of other EU countries. British citizens lost their automatic right to live and work in the EU after the Brexit referendum. Now, a series of cases involving vulnerable Britons has put Sweden's treatment of UK nationals under growing scrutiny. The World's Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports.