Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
How badly prepared Sweden was for any pandemic became painstaikingly clear right from the beginning of the COVID19 outbreak. Apart from the lack of basic medical supplies in the hospitals, protecting the elderly totally failed. The nurses taking care of […]
At the end of May 2020 I worked with Dutch Nieuwsuur TV reporter Saskia Dekkers, camera man Pieter Nijdeken and editor Luuk Mulder on two reports on Sweden in Corona times. While Sweden kept much of its society running, to […]
Making a balanced report on Sweden in the heated atmosphere before Sunday’s elections isn’t easy. In the end we choose Gothenburg as our place to be. A week’s worth of production, including three film days on location, in 7,5 minutes […]
In Sweden migrants often end up in the suburbs of Stockholm and Malmö, where their chances for a better future are slim. Residents feel excluded. Research shows that asylum seekers commit not more crimes than Swedish natives. But in the […]
During the big refugee crisis of 2015 Sweden had the second largest number of asylum seekers per capita in the EU, after Hungary. Last year, the country welcomed 163,000 immigrants. But the hospitable country is reaching its limits and can […]