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What are the main challenges for Swedish employers when recruiting internationally and how can they harness the experience of the many skilled internationals already living in Sweden?

In this special live recording of the podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined on stage by Maria Fogelström Kylberg, CEO of Stockholms Akademiska Forum, Amanda Herzog, founder of Intertalents in Sweden, and Laureline Vallée, an environmental engineer from France who recently secured her first job in Sweden.

The podcast was part of Talent Talks, an afternoon of discussions at the Stockholm Business Region offices on how to attract and retain foreign workers in Sweden.

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This week: how Sweden voted on new gender law, horrific murder in Stockholm suburb, former Moderate Party leader faces nepotism allegations over jobs for friends.

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local's Becky Waterton and Richard Orange.

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

• Sweden votes 'yes' to lowering age for legal gender change
• How Sweden's legal gender bill has split the government
• ARCHIVE: Where did it all go wrong for ousted party leader Anna Kinberg Batra?

• Stockholm shooting victim 'completely innocent' say distraught family

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This week: Child residency permit row, Sweden regressing on rule of law, and 50 years since Abba's Waterloo win.

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local's James Savage and Richard Orange.

As mentioned in the episode we will be recording the podcast in front of a live audience on April 24th at the offices of Stockholm Business Region as part of the Talent Talks event being held there that day.

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Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

• Boy who went viral raising 5 million for charity gets Swedish residence permit

• How ABBA paved the way for Swedish pop 50 years ago

• ARCHIVE: 'Civil rights groups in Sweden can fight this government's repressive proposals'

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In this week's episode: Snow chaos on Sweden's roads, April Fools' traditions, government divided on new gender law, and will there be a Swedish pope?

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by The Local's James Savage and Richard Orange.

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

• 'Are they on Easter holiday?': Swedish government under fire after snow chaos
• Snow chaos on Swedish E4 road 'worst since 1995'

• April Fools' is back: here are nine of this year's best jokes in Sweden

• Swedish bishop named as possible next pope

• EXPLAINED: How Sweden’s legal gender bill has split the government

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In this week's episode: Easter opening hours, news quiz, World Happiness Report.

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

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

• Witches and herring: Seven traditions that reveal it's Easter in Sweden
• Seven must-have dishes for a very Swedish Easter celebration

• How happy are people in Sweden compared to the rest of the world?

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In this week's episode: Waffle Day, foiled plot to attack Sweden's parliament, Busch and Åkesson trade insults.

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

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

Waffle Day

• How March 25th became Sweden’s national Waffle Day, thanks to mispronunciation
• Recipe: How to make traditional Swedish waffles on Waffle Day

Terror plot

• Two men held in Germany over Swedish parliament terror plot

Politics

• ARCHIVE: Sweden Democrats admit Nazi roots in new ‘white book’

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This week: New migration stats and a uniquely Swedish kids' magazine.

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined by The Local's Becky Waterton and Richard Orange, and we also chat to the editor of KP, Lukas Björkman, about the children's magazine's enduringly popularity in a digital age and how to stay relevant by listening to children and ignoring parents.

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

• Foreigners in Sweden: How the migration paradigm shift affects our lives
• What's the current status of Sweden's planned migration laws?

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How does someone who grew up in a Stockholm suburb become the leader of a traditionally agrarian party? Why is the party opposed to new work permit rules? And what's it like being Sweden's first culturally Muslim party leader? This and more in our interview with Centre Party leader Muharrem Demirok.

In this bonus episode of our Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined by The Local’s publisher James Savage for a wide-ranging interview with the leader of the Centre Party, Muharrem Demirok.

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