February 13, 2012
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Top German politicians have protested after it emerged that a prominent Swedish right-wing extremist with ties to German neo-Nazis is relocating to Berlin.
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Several of the recent killings in Malmö have been linked to financial fraud and fake companies trading online, according to sources close to the ongoing murder investigations. READ (3 COMMENTS) »
Finnish driver Jari-Matti Latvala claimed the Rally of Sweden title near Hagfors in western Sweden on Sunday, the sixth win of his career. READ »
A 24-year-old teacher has been remanded into custody on suspicion of child rape after admitting that he had sexual relations with a number of teenage pupils. READ (4 COMMENTS) »
Medicinal cannabis is now available as a prescription medicine in Sweden after the Medical Products agency approved a cannabis-based mouth spray for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. READ (14 COMMENTS) »
A man has been arrested in Gävle in northern Sweden on suspicion of having stolen a 20-year-old's wallet while doling out an impromptu hug in an apparent copycat attack of a gang operating in Stockholm. READ (1 COMMENT) »
A new line of snow showers is expected to powder Sweden during Saturday, with the snowfall expected to continue all through the night into Sunday. An area of low pressure north of Sweden is the culprit behind the large area of snowfall. READ (5 COMMENTS) »
Two-thirds of newly appointed bosses in 2011 were men, according to a survey of Sweden's eight largest management recruitment companies presented in Swedish media. READ (11 COMMENTS) »
A Stockholm-based psychiatrist had sex with one of his patients during a therapy session. The man has now been charged with sexually exploiting a person dependent of him. READ (15 COMMENTS) »

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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Bearing in mind Sweden has not had a serious economic downturn for a very long time (90,s not counting as was,nt serious) and largely people are complacent and smug that it will NEVER go bad here........when things do go downhill in sweden, there is almost a perfect receipe for a widespread right wing revival in the future. I hope it wont happen but........
The mentality in the uk as and example is totally different......much more friendly and accepting of different races.
Oh dear where to start? You do realise that if you turn 360° you're back facing the same direction you started from? This seems appropriate though for a people that seems to have been remarkably "liberal" for their age, travelling and trading with most of Europe, marrying foreigners and brining foreign influences back to Scandinavia.
Also, the Swedish Riksdag has always recognised Sharia law as it would be very difficult to sell IKEA or Volvo in many Muslim countries if we refused to accept contracts agreed under Sharia law as valid in Sweden. The same applies to marriages (Swedes have a proud history of marrying foreigners), divorces, adoptions etc.
lastly, 100's of thousands of Muslims would still be a too small minority to get a single representative in parliament without support from other Swedish citizens. Might be that we need to improve our Constitution so that Parliament might represent all people, including those who have their day of rest on Fridays?
It is also the immigrants fault because as an immigrant your role goal should be to become part of the culture that you are moving into. I am not saying that is their fault completely because there will always be people who do not accept them; however, if they are able to adapt themselves to the culture and try to integrate themselves as a member of the new society that has open the doors for them, it will be much easier for them to be accepted by the natives; this might not always be the case, since they will always be ignorant people who’s intelligent is not enough to allow them to understand and accept other cultures, but over all it will make it a whole lot easier.
I am not advocating for people to abandon their roots and try to become Swedes, why I am suggesting is that people can integrate to society and adopt new customs while at the same time maintaining their ethnic roots. Here in the US for example there are many groups of immigrants that complain that Americans discriminate against them and that
“White people” are against immigrants. But that is not the way things are, for the most part. Many immigrants that come to NY and make no effort to learn the language or to do any thing productive that might help them integrate to the society, instead they leave isolated in their neighborhoods in many cases joining gangs, behaving in disorderly manner and complaining about how much they hate “white people” for not liking them. Not all immigrants are like this, but those who do, set a bad reputation for the one that are willing to make an effort.
hahaha Let's expect that German xenophobic right-wingers see him as a threat. LOL