What are Sweden's budget priorities for immigrants?

In this week's episode: how the new budget affects foreigners, favourite Swedish expressions, and a Social Democrat lottery scandal.

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local's Becky Waterton and Richard Orange.

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

Money

• How will Sweden's new budget affect foreign residents?

Language

• Seven Swedish expressions which will make you sound like a local
• Swedish word of the day: tjafs

Politics

• Why a lottery scandal could change the funding balance in Swedish politics

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