Your questions answered on Sweden's new work permit rules
This week: Halloween, Nato, cable damage in the Baltic Sea, popular TV shows, and we answer readers' questions on Sweden's new salary requirement for work permit holders. Host Paul O’Mahony in Stockho...
28 Loka 202330min
Why a terrorist targeted Swedes, and does the far right run Sweden now?
__Sign up for Stockholm Explorative Talks. Presented by Stockholm Academic Forum__In this week's episode we look at the latest Covid recommendations, how the far-right Sweden Democrats are using their...
21 Loka 202337min
INTERVIEW: Why didn't the Social Democrats fix Sweden's school segregation problems?
In this bonus episode of Sweden in Focus, we speak to the Social Democratic former education minister Anna Ekström about Nordic 'folk high schools', budget cuts to study associations, worsening segreg...
18 Loka 202340min
Work permit holders appeal to Sweden to let them stay
In this week's episode: Foxtrot leader reportedly arrested in Iran, Swedish reaction to Israel-Hamsas war, and lots of reaction to Sweden's new pay threshold for work permits. Host Paul O’Mahony is jo...
14 Loka 202336min
Immigrant fears over work permit rules and Sweden moves towards more surveillance
In this week's episode: weak krona means less Nobel prize money, Sweden’s government plans more surveillance, what the future holds for Scandinavian Airlines, how work permit holders will be affected ...
7 Loka 202328min
Shocking week of gang violence, and why northern Sweden needs foreign workers
In this week's episode: Is Sweden underfunding schools and healthcare?; motorway mudslide; Turkey gives fresh impetus to Sweden's Nato bid; why northern Sweden needs foreign workers, and Prime Ministe...
30 Syys 202336min
How will the budget affect you, and why is Sweden's gang violence escalating?
In this week's podcast we discuss: mushroom foraging tips, why Sweden's highest mountain is melting, how the new budget will affect you, and what are the underlying factors behind a vicious new wave o...
23 Syys 202333min
King’s 50th jubilee, and must Swedish citizenship be ‘protected’?
In this week's episode: Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrates 50 years on the throne, several countries block Swedish pork after swine fever outbreak, unemployment on the rise, and Migration Minist...
16 Syys 202331min
