This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Patrick Gallen, spokesperson for Fair Transition..
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The work-life balance and generous support for family life offered by Sweden is the main factor attracting highly skilled workers to the country, eclipsing salary levels, and the opportunities offered by the labour marke…
This week: Tortuous efforts to form a government, plans to stop teen deportations, how new rules on family reunification could make life harder for university researchers, and what do The Local’s readers miss most when l…
SVT's televised immigration debate showed being tough on immigration isn't a straightforward vote-winner any longer. But by focusing almost entirely on refugees, the debate managed to ignore the people who actually migra…
Shima and Bijan left the UK for Sweden seven years ago with their young daughter. If they knew then what they know now about Sweden's approach to family immigration, they say they would never have come.
Sweden's government along with the Sweden Democrats have proposed tightening family reunification immigration requirements, including raising the support requirement and imposing a two year wait before someone can apply…
With just days left before Sweden carries out the most radical citizenship reforms in years, an administrative backlog means 100,000 long-term residents are losing the race against time. The Local speaks with some of the…
In this week's podcast: Stats agency surveys foreign workers, where to live in Sweden's biggest cities, is a centrist government likely in Sweden? And are your summer flights at risk?
In this week's podcast: PM says Sweden Democrats will get migration minister position if right wins election, inside Sweden's deportation centres, high-skilled workers losing trust in Sweden, and why is competition a dir…
Thousands of people joined demonstrations in nearly 30 locations across Sweden over the weekend to call for “more humane immigration laws”.
In this week's podcast: immigration laws coming thick and fast, Sweden's Winter Olympics chances, new list of work permit exemptions on the way, and the scourge of formulaic parent-teacher meetings.
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Vladimir PutinRysslands president 2000–2008 och 2012–
Benjamin NetanyahuIsraels premiärminister 1996–1999, 2009–2021 och 2022–
Jonas Gahr StøreNorges statsminister 2021–
Ted BundyAmerikansk seriemördare
Flavio BolsonaroBrasiliansk politiker
Alexander StubbFinlands president 2024–
Volodymyr ZelenskyjUkrainas president 2019–
Elisabeth SvantessonSvensk politiker och nationalekonom
Donald TrumpUSA:s 45:e och 47:e president 2017–2021 respektive 2025–
El PaísSpaniens största morgontidning
Ulf KristerssonSveriges statsminister 2022–A leading Swedish business organisation is urging the next government – whenever it is formed – to step up the work of attracting and retaining crucial international talent.
Following strong gains for the Moderate Party and the Sweden Democrats, a new poll has the right-wing side nearly four percentage points higher than their left-wing rivals.
Kristersson calls on speaker to force parliamentary vote to break Swedish government deadlock – and right-wing bloc takes clear lead over left wing in new poll. Here's the latest news.
As Sweden doesn't yet have a new government, outgoing Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson will present a caretaker budget in November. It will be completely devoid of election pledges and fresh policy initiatives – exc…
Sweden is expected to hike its interest rate – and the budget deadline is fast approaching, as well as the deadline for sending Christmas presents outside Europe. Here's that and everything else that changes in November.
This week's Sweden in Focus Extra podcast features an interview with Matilda Molander, head of the green and liberal Fores think tank.
A 60-year-old woman who was rejected for a job because of her age has been awarded 50,000 kronor in compensation.
Speaker to call party leaders after Centre Party fails to forge centrist government – and Swedish security firm pays out 50,000 kronor over age discrimination. Here's the latest news.
When something in a culture becomes so iconic that it's ubiquitous, it can be easy to assume that its status is overblown. But even after all this time and exposure, Pippi Longstocking still lives up to the hype, writes…
As Sweden's annual 'reading break' for schoolchildren gets under way, we want to know what Swedish children's books have had a real impact on you or your children.
