Why this year's Swedish National Day will be bittersweet
In this week's podcast: new citizenship law takes effect, a plan to end Sweden's teen deportations, toddlers who speak better Swedish than you, and Minnesota's Swedish heritage.
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In this week's podcast: new citizenship law takes effect, a plan to end Sweden's teen deportations, toddlers who speak better Swedish than you, and Minnesota's Swedish heritage.
New salary thresholds aren't the only changes for work permit holders in Sweden that began on June 1st: the changed law also includes expanded possibilities for work permits to be denied because of problems linked to the employer. What problems count?
Takeaway pizza hasn't become cheaper despite lowered VAT on takeaways. That's according to a survey by Swedish Radio's local channel P4 Jรถnkรถping. VAT on foodstuffs and takeaways was cut in half from 12 to 6 percent on April 1st this year, with the aim of reducing prices for customers. Pizza restaurant owners say wholesale prices have gone up and if not for the VAT-cut, they would have had to raise their prices.
Women in Sweden are generally more satisfied with their sex lives than men in comparable age-brackets. That's according to a new survey by the Public Health Agency of Sweden in which nearly 16,000 people aged between 16 and 84 were asked about sexual health and reproductive rights. However, the survey also points to continued challenges when it comes to women experiencing unwanted sexual attention and sexual violence.
From July 1st a new customs fee will be introduced for products ordered from outside the European Union, which could significantly rack up the cost of your small purchase. For packages worth less than 150 euros a fee of three euros per product will be added, according to Swedish Customs. The new EU rules, which are to be applied across the union, are supposed to stop products that don't meet the EU's safety requirements, and to create healthier competition for companies inside the EU.
Ahead of Sweden's next big round of collective bargaining, several employer groups in Swedish industry say the economy is developing worse than previously expected. They have cut their growth forecast for this year, from about 3 to just over 2 per cent, and say there is no space for wage increases similar to the last two rounds of collective bargaining, when union wage demands rose to just over 4 per cent. Industry employers organisations Teknikfรถretagen and Industriarbetsgivarna speak about economic uncertainty, while trade unions in the industry sector have no plans to lower their wage demands.
On June 1st, Sweden's government and the Sweden Democrats announced their long-awaited relief measures for young adults affected by Sweden's so-called teen deportation problem. The proposal is more generous than expected โ but what exactly is in it?
The government and the Sweden Democrats have agreed to a solution they say will stop future teen deportations. Migration Minister Johan Forssell told a press conference on Monday it was a good, reasonable and fair proposal that would last a long time. However the opposition parties are critical of the proposal, and of the time it's taken to be presented.
This year, Green Party MP Annika Hirvonen has been leading the parliamentary pushback against migration reforms. She tells The Local why there's still one last chance to add transitional rules to citizenship, and why she feels public attitudes are changing on migration.
Unemployment has fallen since last summer, but the number of long-term unemployed people in Sweden remains high. The Public Employment Service has been criticised for not doing enough to help people get a job, or to offer training for professions where there are jobs available. The agency's director general, Maria Hemstrรถm Hemmingsson, says that they have relied too much on digital channels in the past. Now they will prioritise to meet in person with people who are, or who risk becoming, long-term unemployed.
Various Swedish news sources are reporting that the union IF Metall, which represents the Tesla workers, has ordered strikers back to work. But it seems to be part of a changing strategy by the union, not an end to the conflict.
Four in 10 Swedes would say no to moving to the country's north for work and where unemployment is lower, even if they were offered a SEK 100,000 relocation allowance. That's according to a survey from Indikator Opinion, carried out on behalf of Swedish Radio's local P4 channels. Most people are happy with the lives they have where they live, and money doesn't make much of a difference there, says Indikator's head of polling Per Oleskog Tryggvason.
People born outside of Sweden vote less today than they did 30-40 years ago. In 1982, voter turnout was roughly the same whether one was born in Sweden or overseas. But in the 2022 parliamentary election nearly 90 percent of native-born Swedes cast their vote, versus only around 65 percent among foreign-born voters. Henrik Andersson, an Associate Professor of Economics at Uppsala University, who has studied this voting gap phenomenon, tells Radio Sweden about why this is and its consequences.
The UN climate chief said Wednesday that a record-breaking early heatwave scorching a swathe of western Europe was "a brutal reminder of the spiralling impacts of the climate crisis".
Marrying your cousin is currently legal in Sweden. But that will change this summer.
The lead Sweden's opposition parties have in the polls ahead of September's election is widening, according to the latest poll from Indikator Opinion done on behalf of Swedish Radio News. The opposition parties are now at 53.9% against 44.2% for the governing parties and the Sweden Democrats. The Liberals lost another 0.4 percentage points in the latest poll, falling to 2% which is far below the 4% required for representation in the Riksdag. The government needs some sort of game changer to turn things around ahead of the September 13 election, says Indikator's head of opinion Per Oleskog Tryggvason.
It's taken them more than two years, but Sweden's government has finally published the list of jobs that will be exempted from the new higher minimum salary for a work permit, which comes into force on June 1st. Here's what you need to know.
This summer the Swedish aviation industry is urging airline passengers to 'put themselves in airplane mode' to avoid the sort of disruptive and drunken behaviour that is becoming increasingly common. Reports to the Swedish Transport Agency of unruly and disruptive behaviour involving flight passengers soared from 178 cases in 2022 to 503 in 2024. Former pilot, Johan Westin who's a flight operations inspector at the Swedish Transport Agency, says incidents are becoming all the more common and can range from threatening and aggressive behaviour towards staff and other passengers, to drunkenness, harassment, or failure to follow cabin crew instructions.
Sweden has reached its goal of having less than 5% of the population smoke on a regular basis โ which now means it's considered to be a "smoke-free" country. At the beginning of the 1980s, more than 30% of Swedes smoked every day. Sweden had set a goal of being smoke-free by 2025 and that's now been attained, according to the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs.
More than 100,000 people gathered in the university town of Lund on Saturday to attend the student-run Lundakarnevalen, which is organised every four years.