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LISTEN: How will the new government affect foreigners’ lives in Sweden?

In this episode we discuss how the incoming right-wing government has said it plans to govern Sweden for the next four years.

Published: 15 October 2022 09:55 CEST
LISTEN: How will the new government affect foreigners' lives in Sweden?

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

After weeks of deliberation the Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson told the parliamentary speaker on Friday he was finally ready to form a new government. Assuming he survives a vote in the Riksdag on Monday, Kristersson is expected to become prime minster next week and will start work assembling a government. We discuss what we know so far about the make-up of the next government and how it plans to govern Sweden.  

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Sweden’s new stop-and-search zones ‘will result in ethnic profiling’

In this week's Sweden in Focus Extra, we speak to John Stauffer from Civil Rights Defenders to see what Sweden can do to improve the rule of law after a new report showed that the country is regressing.

Published: 17 April 2024 08:55 CEST
Sweden's new stop-and-search zones 'will result in ethnic profiling'

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Host Paul O’Mahony is joined by John Stauffer, legal director for the human rights organization Civil Rights Defenders. 

They talk about a new rule of law report (PDF) released by the Civil Liberties Union of Europe which shows Sweden regressing in multiple areas.

We had the same guest on the podcast shortly after the 2022 election to talk about the Tidö agreement, a policy programme signed by the government and the Sweden Democrats that he said undermined the rule of law and democracy.

Since then the government has been rolling out some of the controversial policies laid out in the agreement. This month for example will see police given the right to implement stop-and-search zones in vulnerable areas, allowing them to search people and vehicles without concrete suspicion that a crime has been committed.

In this week’s Sweden in Focus Extra we take a closer look at the rule of law report, why Sweden is regressing and what it can do to get back on track. 

 
 
 
 
 
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