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Sweden in Focus podcast: Explaining rent control, political division and snaps

This week's behind-the-scenes look at the biggest news stories in Sweden with the journalists who know them best.

Published: 26 June 2021 10:00 CEST
Updated: 29 June 2021 16:11 CEST
Sweden in Focus podcast: Explaining rent control, political division and snaps

In this week’s episode of our new podcast Sweden in Focus, The Local’s CEO and publisher James Savage discusses the divide between the Left and Centre Party on which the current government future hinges, while Europe Editor Catherine Edwards digs into how Sweden’s rent controls work and why they sparked a political crisis.

Also in today’s episode: Journalist Richard Orange shares his own experience of Sweden’s shared parental leave and presents the results of our reader poll on the subject, and journalist Isabella Anderson enlightens us all on the history of snaps. And one member of the team gives a rendition of their favourite Swedish drinking song…

Sweden in Focus is hosted by radio journalist Tom Henley and made in collaboration with production company Banda.

Let us know what you think in the comments below, or tweet us using the hashtag #SwedeninFocus.

The Local’s Sweden in Focus podcast is sponsored by Akademikernas A-kassa.

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LISTEN: Dual citizens’ loyalties, new sleeper train, and a green game changer in Kiruna

This week on Sweden in Focus: Europe's biggest rare earth metal find, Sweden's EU presidency priorities, a new Stockholm-Berlin sleeper train, interview with Malaysia's ambassador, Turkish fury over Erdogan effigy, dual citizenship in focus, PM's aide in eel-fishing scandal, spy brothers convicted, and arming Ukraine with Archers.

Published: 21 January 2023 08:47 CET
LISTEN: Dual citizens' loyalties, new sleeper train, and a green game changer in Kiruna

In the latest episode of our Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined by panelists Emma Löfgren, Richard Orange and James Savage.

On this week’s episode we explore a game-changing rare earth metal find in northern Sweden. 

We discuss Sweden’s priorities for the EU Council presidency with Louise Bengtsson, senior researcher at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies.

As rail operator SJ prepares to launch a sleeper train from Stockholm to Berlin, we talk about the costs and benefits. 

In the latest in our series of interviews with ambassadors, we interview Nur Ashikin Mohd Taib, who leaves Sweden this week after serving for four years as Malaysia’s top diplomat in Stockholm.

We also discuss how an activist group’s hanging of an effigy of Turkey’s President Erdogan has further complicated Turkish-Swedish relations. Also:

And we chat about a prime ministerial aide who has received a heft fine for illegally fishing endangered eels. 

Also, we briefly discuss two stories that broke right as we were recording. 

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