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LISTEN: Swedish language reform controversy, and who are all the Skarsgårds?

In this week’s episode: How safe is our money in a Swedish bank account? Have Turkey and Hungary budged on Nato? New language chief wants to ditch ‘de’ and ‘dem’; interview with Canada’s ambassador; Swedish film tips, and who are all the Skarsgårds?

Published: 18 March 2023 08:26 CET

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

In this week’s episode we discuss how the fallout from the recent banking sector turmoil might affect savers in Sweden. 

What’s going on with Nato? Are Hungary and Turkey are going to let Finland and Sweden in?

Is it time to dispense with ‘de’ and ‘dem’ in written Swedish and instead embrace ‘dom’? 

In a week when the Christian Democrats’ party secretary was fired after another senior figure in the party filed a police report against him, we look at how the scandal has played out so far and how the party has handled it. 

In the latest instalment of our ambassador series, we have an interview with Canada’s ambassador to Sweden, Jason LaTorre.

We also look at who’s who in the the Skarsgård acting dynasty before rounding off with tips for some of our own favourite Swedish films. 

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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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