In the latest episode of our Sweden in Focus podcast, host Paul O’Mahony is joined by panelists James Savage, Richard Orange, and Becky Waterton.In this week’s episode we discuss: Eurovision fever‘Almost goddess status’: Sweden’s Loreen tipped to win EurovisionRail strikeSwedish rail strike postponed but Stockholm trains still affectedJimmie ÅkessonSweden’s government has its ‘here’s Jimmie!’ momentSweden Democrats leader says ‘fundamentalist Muslims’ cannot be SwedesScandinavian languagesWhy don’t Scandinavians try harder to understand each other?How to turn the one Scandinavian language you are learning into threeDemocracyIs this government really a threat to democracy?__Become a member of The Local Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.