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SWEDEN IN FOCUS

How can Sweden get more immigrants in leadership roles?

Nurses plan to strike, Sweden Democrats vow to keep on trolling, and how can Sweden combat discrimination? For Membership+ subscribers: EU election preview, 'trailing spouse' survey results, and where are the best beaches?

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Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local Sweden’s editor Emma Löfgren and our Nordic correspondent Richard Orange. The episode also features interviews with Greg Fernando, the founder of New to Sweden, an organisation promoting greater workplace diversity, and Paulina Brandberg, Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life. 

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

Nurses strike 

Troll factory

Discrimination

EU election 

Reader insights

Summer 

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Sweden’s most offensive words and residency permit stress

Celebrate Midsummer like a Swede, EU election analysis, Sweden's most offensive words. For Membership+ subscribers: the stress of waiting for permits, dramatic new figures on work permits, Swedes' favourite summer listening.

Sweden's most offensive words and residency permit stress

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by regular panelists James Savage and Becky Waterton. 

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

Midsummer

2024 European Elections

Language

Residency permits

Work permits

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Sign up now and get early, ad-free access to a full-length episode of the Sweden in Focus podcast every weekend, as well as Sweden in Focus Extra every Wednesday.

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