Becky Waterton
Deputy Editor at The Local (Sweden)
Deputy Editor @TheLocalSweden | No longer active here, find me @beckywaterton on other platforms
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1 week ago |
thelocal.se | Becky Waterton
What's the weather going to be like? Sweden is (usually) the perfect country to visit in summer – long, warm days that never really turn into night, but not as suffocatingly hot as southern Europe. It's hard to know whether that will be the case this year, as long-term weather forecasts can be unpredictable, but hopefully the weather will improve after the cold and wet end to May.
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1 week ago |
thelocal.se | Becky Waterton
Kristi Himmelsfärdsdag literally translates as Christ’s heaven travel day, which pretty accurately describes why the day is celebrated. You might also hear it jokingly referred to as Kristi flygare, or Christ the flyer. It always falls 40 days after Easter, which also means that it’s always on a Thursday – it used to be known as helgetorsdag or Sacred Thursday. Like Easter, the date is decided based on the cycle of the moon, so the date varies each year.
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1 week ago |
thelocal.se | Becky Waterton
There is no blanket legal requirement in Sweden for shops to close on Ascension Day (May 29th). When it comes to supermarkets and grocery shops, the chances are that they will be open as usual, particularly if you live in a city, although possibly with slightly reduced opening hours.
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1 week ago |
thelocal.se | Becky Waterton
Kazemian already had a medical degree when he arrived in Sweden in 2021. This doesn't mean that he was able to start practising as a doctor straight away – as his degree is from a non-EU country, he had to go through a rigorous process to qualify in Sweden. He didn't let this put him off, and worked his way through the multi-step process. "There are several steps to qualify.
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2 weeks ago |
thelocal.se | Becky Waterton
This week has been a big week for Swedish citizenship applicants, with two big pieces of news. The first is that Sweden’s citizenship freeze is effectively over, and the Migration Agency confirmed to The Local on Friday that it has already started sending out letters calling for applicants to book appointments at its offices. READ ALSO: How will Sweden's new personal ID checks for citizenship work?
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