Why Sweden and Denmark are going different ways on work permits
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In this week's episode we bring in The Local's Denmark editor, Michael Barrett, to talk about why Denmark is liberating its work permit rules at the same time as Sweden is tightening up. And we assess Sweden's big political experiment: a centre-right government backed by the far-right Sweden Democrats. Three years on, how has it been working?
For Membership+ subscribers, we look at why a Swedish prosecutor dropped a hate crimes investigation into an artist who hung dolls dressed in striped concentration camp uniforms. And finally, we talk about how noise complaints from neighbours are threatening to close down the Trädgården nightclub in Stockholm. Are killjoy nimbies making the capital boring?
Host Richard Orange is joined this week by The Local's publisher James Savage and our Denmark editor Michael Barrett.
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