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How to make friends in Sweden – tips from The Local’s readers

In this week's Sweden in Focus Extra we dig into some of the responses we've received from readers about the best ways to make friends in Sweden.

Published: 14 August 2024 10:57 CEST
Friends in Sweden
Friends in Sweden

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local’s Emma Löfgren and Becky Waterton.

A recent survey from Statistics Sweden showed that around six percent of people born in Sweden aged 16 and over didn’t have any close friends. And the situation is even worse for the foreign-born population, with fully 13 percent saying they didn’t have a close friend.

This prompted us to survey readers of The Local to get your tips on how to make friends in Sweden and this episode features some of the responses we received.

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What’s the latest on Sweden’s tougher criteria for residency and citizenship?

In this week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers: the government's priorities for the year ahead, the status of the 'paradigm shift on migration', and four tricky pledges the coalition hasn't yet delivered on.

Published: 18 September 2024 11:02 CEST
What's the latest on Sweden's tougher criteria for residency and citizenship?

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local Sweden’s Becky Waterton and Emma Löfgren.

After Sweden’s parliament reopened last week after the summer break, the panelists discuss what Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said would be the government’s priorities for the year ahead. 

Two years into the government’s term, how is its much-vaunted ‘paradigm shift’ on migration progressing? 

And finally we examine some potential stumbling blocks for the right-wing coalition as it enters the second half of its four-year term, from a proposed begging ban to plans to deport people for flawed conduct – ‘bristande vandel ‘.

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