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Despite an imminent EU summit on migration in February, the new Swedish Council Presidency is showing no sign of wanting to help push through the bloc’s long gridlocked measures on the issue. The EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum aims to reform Europe’s approach to migration, with a focus on shared responsibility and solidarity when it comes to migrants coming to the continent. But with Stockholm, whose new right-wing government is propped up by the far-right Sweden Democrats, taking over the bloc’s agenda-setting EU Council Presidency for the next six months, hopes are not high in Brussels. S…