Norway will separate immigration minister

To manage the large influx of refugees in the right direction, Norway receives a separate Minister for Immigration and Integration.

Sylvi List Haug of the populist Progress Party, the immigration minister. She was hitherto agriculture minister in the center-right government of Prime Minister Erna Solberg.

Norway expects this year an influx of 40,000 asylum seekers. A few weeks ago the asylum law was tightened.