Word: barbro
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...Leijonborg and part of a four-party alliance, have admitted to using advance insight into SDP initiatives to design their policies, but deny having known that the information was obtained illegally. "I was told the SDP would have a senior citizens campaign and that it came from a leak," Barbro Westerholm, a member of the party board, told daily Svenska Dagbladet. "I now understand it was no leak but hacking. I feel deceived." The revelations came towards the end of what had been an uneventful election campaign, centering on unemployment and welfare. Polls had consistently shown a slight lead...
...financial aid to newcomers, has reduced the number of people seeking asylum there from 12,500 in 2001 to less than a third of that this year. Largely as a result, asylum applications in Sweden have gone up 40% since 2001. Nevertheless, Swedish Migration Minister Barbro Holmberg last week vowed to expand Sweden's intake of asylum seekers to include people persecuted for their gender or sexual orientation. Britain, a prime European destination for asylum seekers with some 100,000 arrivals a year, expects to halve the annual figure in 2003. Tougher screening plus the closure a year...