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The Nyans party demonstrates against Koran burnings on Mynttorget outside the Riksdag. Archive image. Christine Olsson/TT  

 

The Koran burnings  

The terrorist threat to Sweden may increase after the Koran burning  

 

Terrorist threats against Sweden may increase after the Koran burning in Stockholm, reports Aftonbladet. 

 

- Events like this can be threatening, as we also saw yesterday in Iraq. It can affect individuals within violent Islamism, says Karin Lutz, press secretary at Säpo.  

 

During yesterday, demonstrators entered the Swedish embassy in Baghdad. Right-wing extremist and Islamist-motivated terrorism is judged to be the main terrorist threat to Sweden.  

 

 

Viktor Orbán and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in connection with the EU summit. Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP EU 

 

Asylum Pact 

Migration deadlock in the EU after Polish-Hungarian "mutiny" 

 

Poland and Hungary are protesting against the heavy migration settlement that Sweden has negotiated, reports Politico.  

 

During Thursday's EU summit, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán raised his voice and called the Union's position unacceptable. He was supported by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. They both threatened to block the meeting's writings on migration in the meeting's final document.  

 

According to Sveriges Radio, Hungary and Poland demanded that the migration issue should require all countries to agree, instead of a qualified majority. This would mean that the decision on a new asylum system is torn up. 

 

Politico writes that the development of events is exactly what all other countries hoped to avoid: A new "mutiny" in the migration issue. 

 

The asylum system has been described as one of the great successes during the Swedish EU presidency. 

 

 

Children in Islamabad, Pakistan. Rahmat Gul / AP  

 

Political situation in Pakistan IMF approves emergency loan to Pakistan of 30 billion  

 

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached an agreement with Pakistan on an emergency loan of 3 billion dollars, corresponding to roughly 30 billion kroner, international news agencies report.  

 

Pakistan is on the brink of state bankruptcy and the emergency loan - which will be higher than expected but eight months late - is hoped to ease the country struggling with a severe balance of payments crisis and dwindling foreign reserves. 

 

The IMF urges Pakistan to implement reforms in the energy sector and demands that the state refrain from unbudgeted spending. The emergency loan is an extension of a support effort from the IMF of 6.5 billion dollars from 2019 that expired today.