Beat the Swedish system, IndiskFika, and trouble over mines
In the latest episode of our Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined Indian dancer and project manager Aradhana Varma and The Local’s Becky Waterton, Richard Orange and James Savage.In t...
2 Huhti 202233min
Arming Ukraine, rising Swedish prices, and ‘talent deportations’
In the latest episode of The Local's Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined by The Local’s Becky Waterton, Richard Orange and James Savage. In this episode we hear from Ukrainian refuge...
26 Maalis 202230min
Ukrainian refugees, Swedish for Immigrants classes, and does the typical Swede exist?
In the latest episode of our Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined by lecturer and author David Crouch as well as The Local’s Becky Waterton, Richard Orange and James Savage. In this e...
19 Maalis 202234min
The Nato dilemma, what Sweden expects of us in a crisis, and how you can help Ukraine
In the first episode of the second season of our Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O'Mahony is joined by The Local’s James Savage, Becky Waterton and Richard Orange. In the wake of Russia’s invasion...
12 Maalis 202232min
New migration laws, a Covid recap and life in the Gothenburg archipelago
In the latest episode of our Sweden in Focus podcast, The Local’s Europe Editor Catherine Edwards, The Local Sweden’s Editor Emma Löfgren and freelance journalist Isabella Anderson discuss Sweden’s ne...
17 Heinä 202131min
Coop cyberattack, the return of Löfven and personnummer havoc
In the latest episode of our podcast Sweden in Focus, The Local’s publisher James Savage talks about the cyberattack that knocked out hundreds of supermarkets across Sweden, and what this means for su...
10 Heinä 202133min
Political misrepresentation abroad, language tests and Swedish stereotypes
In this week’s episode of Sweden in Focus, journalism professor and this week’s opinion columnist Christian Christensen explains why it’s a problem that international media focus so overwhelmingly on ...
3 Heinä 202132min
The Left Party and Centre Party divide, rent control and why snaps?
In this week’s episode of our new podcast Sweden in Focus, The Local’s CEO and publisher James Savage discusses the divide between the Left and Centre Party on which the current government future hing...
26 Kesä 202132min
