Inside Sweden: The Local's pop-up newsroom and the hard truth about citizenship deadline
The Local Sweden's editor, Emma Löfgren, reflects on recent encounters with readers, and shares her latest articles about the 100,000 in the citizenship queue.
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Inside Sweden: Sweden's citizenship news is bittersweet
The Local's deputy editor Becky Waterton rounds up the biggest stories of the week in our Inside Sweden newsletter..
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