Richard Orange is the Nordic Editor at The Local. Based in Malmö, he has a diverse portfolio that encompasses regional interest and world news, with a focus on elections, government, politics, and public policy across the Nordic countries and beyond. Richard's work has been featured in various publications, including The Local Germany, National Geographic, and The Local Sweden.
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By: Tue Sep, Richard Orange
It took until April 2025 – more than five years after the UK left the EU – for Gavin Watkins to realise he should have applied for post-Brexit residency. He has since lost his job, unemployment insurance and risks deportation.
By: Richard Orange
The opposition Social Democrats have launched their election programme just two weeks before Sweden goes to the polls, headlining it with a generous pledge for the state to cover the cost 90 percent of all adult dental care.
The Swedish opposition parties' lead in the election has collapsed to just 2.6 percentage points in a new poll, as the Liberal Party gains support and the Social Democrats fall to their lowest polling numbers since the 2021 government crisis.
By: Richard Orange
Sweden's migration minister has defended the country's unusually high refusal rate for post-Brexit residency, in a response to a parliamentary question asking if he would act to stop high profile deportations of elderly British citizens.
Sweden's right-wing Tidö bloc showed a united front at a press conference on Wednesday, after Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch promised not to back Magdalena Andersson as prime minister even if the alternative was a new election.
By: Thu Sep, Richard Orange
Many, perhaps most, of the 100,000 people in the queue when the new citizenship law came into force on June 6th will not meet the new requirements, meaning there's likely to be a wave of rejections. Here's what to do if your application is rejected.
The Social Democrats have promised to set up a new 'Expat welcome desk' for foreign workers arriving in Stockholm if they win the election in the city and regional elections, a one-stop shop where new arrivals get advice on handling bureaucracy and settling in.
By: Richard Orange
The Social Democrats are planning to launch a government inquiry which will carry out a major review of the country's migration legislation, arguing that years of piecemeal reforms have made the rules unnecessarily complicated and contradictory.
By: Richard Orange
The Russian live-in partner of a Sweden Democrat official who works in the heart of Sweden's government offices has been spreading pro-Putin propaganda on social media, the Expo news site has reported in an investigation.
By: Richard Orange
The leader of Sweden's Centre Party has said that scrapping the salary threshold for Swedish work permits would be 'one of the first decisions' that would be taken if a centrist government takes power in Sweden.
