Photo: Hasse Holmberg/TTTT/The Local · 19 Aug 2016, 08:12Published: 19 Aug 2016 08:12 GMT+02:00Sweden could ban begging, a minister has said, in a move that could open up a fissure in the governing coalition. Hundreds of people from the Roma communities of Bulgaria and Romania currently travel to Sweden to beg on the streets. Sweden has so far tried to tackle the problem by reaching agreements with Romania and Bulgaria to improve the situation of Roma in their homelands. “Yet still the begging continues, and our position is that begging in Sweden is no solution to the discrimination, poverty and social exclusion in the countries in question,” Shekarabi said. You can’t ban poverty.

Source: The Local August 19, 2016 06:24 UTC