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Svenskis wrote:

It comes and goes you know. Recently there's more talk about the beggars (mostly Romanians, I believe) whose numbers have swelled during the last year, than there is of other immigration. I don't think that most swedes actually opposes immigration, just the size of it. Only Germany receives more asylum seekers per capita than we do, while some eastern European nations actually experience severe and disrupting emigration. The Free Movement of the EU has a downside you know and that is that people from the economically disadvantaged, former communist states in the east leaves for the west in search for better opportunities, leaving behind an aging population without enough workers/retiree to actually support the nation. Just look at Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltics. They've suffered a devastating population loss since the fall of Soviet.

Indeed. But you can't blame them for going to work somewhere where the minimum wage is ten times what it is in their home country.