In the latest episode of Sweden in Focus we chat about the heavy snow that has fallen this week and how Sweden has coped. 

• READER PICS: Snow turns Sweden into a winter wonderland
• Six things they don’t tell you about the snow in Sweden

 We look at how Advent is celebrated in Sweden.

• How a German Christmas tradition became distinctively Swedish

We discuss the second spectacular spy story in the space of two weeks. 

• Russian couple arrested as spies after helicopter raid in Stockholm

We talk about the resurgence of tensions between the Sweden Democrats and the Liberals. 

We examine what we know about Sweden’s plans to get rid of permanent residency permits, and we hear from Ann-Cathrine Jungar, assistant professor at Södertörn University and an expert on radical right parties in the Nordics, on why the government wants to abolish them. 

• EXPLAINED: What do we know about Sweden’s plans to withdraw permanent residency?

And finally we’ll end with a short quiz to gauge our panelists’ Swedishness this week.

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