How Sweden's stricter immigration rules are hurting the games industry
In this week's Sweden in Focus we speak to the head of Sweden's main games industry organization about how higher salary requirements for work permit holders risk throttling growth. Host Paul O’Mahony...
3 Elo 202428min
How wage requirements for foreign workers are hitting Sweden's startups
In this week's episode of Sweden in Focus we speak to the head of a Swedish organisation for startups and scaleups about the impact on growth of higher salary requirements for foreign work permit hold...
27 Heinä 202418min
What do foreigners value most about living in Sweden?
In this week's Sweden in Focus we speak to an immigration expert about the pros and cons of moving to Sweden for work. Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by Lena Rekdal, founder of the immigration...
20 Heinä 202430min
Family reunification to get harder in Sweden, and is now a good time to buy property?
Family reunification clampdown, Swedish town's one-krona plots go viral, and is now a good time to buy property?Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local's deputy editor Becky Waterton. Here...
13 Heinä 202416min
'How can Sweden leave behind a citizen who was sentenced to death?'
In this week's Sweden in Focus we speak to Vida Mehrannia, the wife of the Karolinska Institute researcher Ahmedreza Djalali who was sentenced to death in Iran in 2017 and was not part of a recent pri...
6 Heinä 202422min
Almedalen special: Why does Sweden make life so hard for foreign talent?
In this special episode of Sweden in Focus James Savage travels to the Almedalen political week on Gotland, where he asks the chief economist of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Sven-Olov Daun...
29 Kesä 202423min
Anger over prisoner swap with Iran, and how strawberries fuel Sweden's gangs
Strawberries linked to organised crime, US designates Swedish neo-Nazis as terrorists, opinion divided over prisoner swap with Iran.Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by regular panelists James Sa...
20 Kesä 202419min
Sweden's most offensive words and a bad night for the far right
Celebrate Midsummer like a Swede, EU election analysis, Sweden's most offensive words. Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by regular panelists James Savage and Becky Waterton. Here are links to so...
15 Kesä 202425min
