What happens when a small but strongly mobilized voter base can turn the parties’ own candidate lists upside down? After this year’s election, two established left-wing politicians have lost their seats in the Riksdag to candidates of Somali background – placed far down the lists. Ethnic networks are now influencing Swedish democracy.
What happened in Ceuta at the end of July 2026 was no ‘migration crisis’ in the ordinary sense – it was a controlled, large-scale border violation in which the Spanish authorities allowed themselves to be caught off guard despite warnings. It was a direct attack on Spain’s, and thus the whole of Schengen’s, territorial sovereignty, carried out by a cynical autocracy that uses people as weapons.
