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CHRISTMAS

What surprising Swedish fact do you want us to explain in our Christmas calendar?

To celebrate the festive season, The Local Sweden will be producing an advent calendar with special content each day of December, up until Christmas. We let readers decide the theme of the calendar, and now we would like to offer you the chance to pick the articles.

What surprising Swedish fact do you want us to explain in our Christmas calendar?
Whether your question is about weird Swedish Christmas traditions or something else entirely, let us know. Photo: Magnus Carlsson/imagebank.sweden.se

Last year, our #SwedishChristmas series, written by contributor Victoria Martínez for The Local's Members, explored the history behind a different Swedish festive tradition each day. Lots of you got in touch to say you enjoyed the series, so we're doing it again – and this year we let you choose what we write about.

In polls on Twitter and Facebook, we let readers choose between three different options that you wanted to read about this December: surprising facts about Sweden, famous Swedes, or Swedish sayings explained.

Surprising facts about Sweden came out top in a narrow victory over Swedish sayings explained.

Now, we are taking it one step further by offering you the chance to let us know which facts about Sweden you would like us to explain in this year's calendar. Feel free to keep them festive, but they don't all have to be Christmas-related. We would love to be able to give you a good mix of different articles next month.

We are keeping this form open to everyone, so that you all get the chance to vote even if you have not yet decided to upgrade to full Membership of The Local. But the final series of articles will be for Members only.

We probably won't be able to include all questions, but we will try to answer as many as possible.

Please vote by filling out the form below or email us. And if you have further thoughts on the kind of articles you would like to see us do more (or less) of on The Local, you're are also always welcome to get in touch.

Best regards,

Emma Löfgren
Editor, The Local Sweden

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CHRISTMAS

Thousands more families in Denmark seek Christmas charity

A significant increase in families have sought Christmas help from the Danish Red Cross compared to last winter.

Thousands more families in Denmark seek Christmas charity

Higher process for food, electricity, gas and fuel are being felt by vulnerable families in Denmark, driving more to apply for Christmas packages offered by the Red Cross, broadcaster DR writes.

The NGO said in a statement that more people than ever before have applied for its Christmas help or julehjælp assistance for vulnerable families.

While 15,000 people applied for the charity last year, the number has already reached 20,000 in 2022.

“We are in an extraordinary situation this year where a lot more people have to account for every single krone to make their finances work,” Danish Red Cross general secretary Anders Ladekarl said in the press statement.

“For many more, their finances no longer work, and this is unfortunately reflected by these numbers,” he said.

The Red Cross Christmas assistance consists of a voucher worth 900 kroner redeemable at Coop stores or, in some stores, a hamper consisting of products.

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