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SWEDEN IN FOCUS

How Sweden’s stricter immigration rules are hurting the games industry

In this week's Sweden in Focus we speak to the head of Sweden's main games industry organization about how higher salary requirements for work permit holders risk throttling growth.

Published: 3 August 2024 12:52 CEST
Per Strömbäck
Per Strömbäck. Photo: Björn Mattisson

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by Per Strömbäck, the head of Dataspelsbranschen, or the Swedish Games, an organisation that represents companies in Sweden’s innovative and highly successful video game sector.

The organisation was one of many to voice concerns last year when the government announced its plans to raise salary requirements for foreign work permit holders, a move the Swedish Games Industry feared would hamper growth in a sector that depends heavily on attracting workers from outside Sweden. 

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  1. Another example of a CEO lobbying for his or her limited short-term personal interests.
    Please stop it. Broad issues are being considered.

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SWEDEN IN FOCUS

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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