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 

• Swedish healthcare strike: What nurses and midwives’ overtime protest means for you

Troll factory

• Swedish PM won’t end Sweden Democrats collaboration over ‘troll factory’ 
• Inside Sweden: Why troll factory won’t spark a government crisis 

Discrimination

• OPINION: ‘No such thing as race’: why Sweden’s colour-blind approach is failing 
• PODCAST: Why doesn’t Sweden gather data on race and ethnicity – and should it? 

EU election 

• Who are Sweden’s top candidates in the European election? 

Reader insights

• ‘I’m still searching for the feeling of home’: Life as a trailing spouse in Sweden 

Summer 

• Essential Sweden: The ultimate guide to the perfect Swedish summer 

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