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LISTEN: Price wars, nudity, and why has Sweden gone cold on climate change?

In this week's episode: football interview sparks racism row; should Sweden follow Denmark's lead on Brexit Brits?; Nato updates; food price war; how comfortable are Swedes with nudity?; and why Sweden's climate watchdog is deeply critical of government policy.

Published: 1 April 2023 08:33 CEST

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

This week we kick off with a few current talking points in Sweden: the weather’s still bitterly cold but at least the Easter break is coming up; why a post-match football interview sparked a racism row; and should Sweden follow Denmark’s lead on Brexit Brits?

As food prices hit record highs we look at why a price war has finally broken out in Sweden’s supermarkets. 

We discuss why Hungary is still keeping Sweden waiting on Nato as Finland forges ahead.

We talk about how comfortable Sweden is with nudity and whether attitudes have changed over time.

And finally we dig into a report this week from Sweden’s climate watchdog predicting that government policies will cause emissions to increase for the first time in two decades.

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Why a British actor has to leave the life he loves in Sweden

British actor Kenny Solomons explains how he built a happy life for himself in Sweden but became so integrated that he completely missed the deadline for Brexit paperwork.

Published: 26 June 2024 09:05 CEST
Why a British actor has to leave the life he loves in Sweden

In this week’s Sweden in Focus Extra, The Local’s Nordic correspondent Richard Orange chats to Kenny Solomons about his colourful life in Sweden and why he now has to leave after his late application for post-Brexit residency was rejected.

“It’s now 19 months since I sent in my appeal to the Migration Court, and the pressure of not knowing, every day, and the pressure of having to say ‘no’ to career opportunities outside of Europe, and the pressure of not knowing with 100 percent certainty that I can live and work in Sweden in the long run was just affecting my health, and my mental health as well,” he says.

“I hit the wall, was suffering with anxiety, and was incredibly unhappy. So I made the decision.”

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