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A weekly, behind-the-scenes look at the biggest news stories in Sweden with the journalists who know them best. Every Saturday with The Local Sweden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Public opinion in Sweden is increasingly at odds with the government's restrictive immigration policies, a new survey has found. The study,...

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This week we ask whether the new deal between Ulf Kristersson and Jimmie Åkesson is a capitulation or a masterstroke by the prime minister....

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This week we talk about why some Swedish trade unions are pushing back against Sweden’s stricter immigration laws. Also, with Easter around...

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This week’s episode features an interview about the lack of transitional rules in Sweden’s proposed new citizenship law. The Local’s deputy...

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This week we have a heavy focus on immigration after the government revealed the details of a proposed new law tightening up citizenship req...

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Instead of a news roundup Sweden in Focus this week consists of a conversation with a journalist who has contributed several articles to The...

Join us for an end-of-year quiz as we look back at the stories that shaped Sweden in 2025. Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Loc...

In this week's episode we talk about Christmas and how to celebrate like a Swede. We also discuss why prominent Moderate Party politicians a...

Voters in Sweden will decide next year whether to keep the current coalition government bolstered by the far-right Sweden Democrats or switc...

In this week's episode we talk about why immigrants in Sweden are often lumped into categories and what needs to be done to forge real conne...

In this week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra, we hear from the Umeå-based Canadian writer. Mandy Pipher about what it's been like moving...

In this week's episode we talk about why northern Sweden doesn’t get the recognition it deserves from southerners, and we prepare for the an...

Can our panelists pass the vocabulary section of högskoleprovet, the Swedish university entrance exam? Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this wee...

In this week's episode we talk about Sweden’s immigrant deportation centres and why reports of miserable conditions there should concern eve...

In this week’s episode we hear a conversation our Nordic editor Richard Orange had recently with Sasan Kazemian, an Iranian doctor who quit...

In this week's episode we talk about strategies for coping with the long Swedish winter now that temperatures have taken a serious nosedive....

In this week’s episode deputy editor Becky Waterton chats with Tom Simpson, a New Zealander who missed the kind of savoury pies that were co...

In this week's episode we talk about a new map that shows just how successfully we immigrants are managing to take control of Sweden. We als...

Can our panelists pass the vocabulary section of högskoleprovet, the Swedish university entrance exam? Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this wee...

In this week's episode we talk about how many people get divorced in Sweden and what the experience has been like for readers of The Local....

It's quiz time again in this week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers. Can our panelists pass the vocabulary sect...