February 14, 2012
Published: 28 Aug 09 18:11 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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Sweden's opposition parties have opened up a lead of almost 5 percentage points over the governing centre-right Alliance, according to a new poll published on Friday.
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A 28-year-old man suspected of stabbing a young girl in the throat at the beginning of February, has been apprehended and is being held in another country pending Sweden's extradition demand. READ »
A man in Lund, southern Sweden, lay dead in his house for weeks before his body was discovered, as visiting care staff had left after the man failed to answer his door. READ (1 COMMENT) »
The Swedish government said on Tuesday it has expelled a foreign diplomat, but spokespeople were unwilling to confirm international reports that it was a high level official from Rwanda. READ »
On Valentine's Day, The Local invites you on a journey of seduction through Sweden, a country which may be worth probing further when it comes to matters of love. READ (2 COMMENTS) »
With Valentine's day upon us again, The Local called for messages from the star-crossed lovers of Sweden, who sent us their loving letters and sweet tweets in a celebration of love in Sweden. READ (2 COMMENTS) »
A Swedish man set to take off on his "dream holiday" to Mexico was turned away before boarding, as flight officials claimed he shared the name of a wanted terrorist. READ (16 COMMENTS) »
A 29-year-old man in northern Sweden has been remanded into custody together with an accomplice after trying to extort money from his parents by pretending he had been kidnapped. READ (3 COMMENTS) »
The Swedish Government has penned a new terror strategy, upgrading Sweden’s risk status since the last plan four years ago, calling for an ‘inter-agency cooperation’ in the fight to counter terror in Sweden. READ (11 COMMENTS) »

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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 »
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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@ The Local
Why do you include the Sweden Democrats? First of all that's racist party and that basically gives you a green light to ignore them and secondly they have less than 4% support. What makes that you include them unacceptable is that you don't include the pirate party or FI too that don't have 4% either.
If you're gonna be politically correct (I hate that) and include the nazis, no wait, I meant the Sweden Democrats, then you *have* to include those other two too. The only reason you would ignore those other two is if you support that party. That's not acceptable by any standards.
Well thx.. it seems as what I wrote wasn't necessary. I wrote that because i believed that their support were about as strong as the Sweden Democrat's, sorry.
While mainstream politics continues to consist of the same pointless bickering between the forces of the economic right and left, the world's problems go unsolved. We've gone through the Dark Ages, the Rennaissance, the Enightenment and the rise of nationalism. There's no reason why the new sustainability and Green political movement should be mocked when it's about time for the next step in humanity's social and political consciousness.
I'm an immigrant myself and a 'plastic' Swede..but i think im beginning to side with SD because of what im seeing in the town i live in! Verrry scary!!
Do you think extremists care about the SD?
Do you think extremism is solved by more extremism?
SD is 'extreme' but sometimes extreme measures are necessary for the greater good.
I like Sweden and enjoy being a 'plastic' swede and i would wish that the western culture was not so extremely liberal and more moral..but in a toss up of what i know and what i don't want to know..perhaps SD is the only way??
Do you think sharia law and all that it stands for is a good thing?
@ racists, nationalists, possible neo-nazis (though i doubt any of them are on here, a newspaper in English and all) and confused or tricked people.
"only one party who is going to save Sweden and that is the Sweden Democrats. "
When I read that sentence I shiver. Is that what you truly believe? If yes then you scare me. You could just as well have told me that the only way to make sure that my dad survives surgery is to donate all my money to Al-Qaida so they can buy destructive things.
While the Sweden Democrats would fix most of the problems we have with immigration, which I admit are quite substantial, it's not a good solution. It is however not a party that just wants to fix the worst parts, the catastrophic parts, it also wants to fix the bad and "bad" parts.
Bad in this case means fixing the part of put migration group that isn't good (if something isn't good it doesn't mean that it is bad) and "bad" means everyone who aren't bad that are of different skin color or different cultural background or different religion. Meaning >99% of all immigrants we have ever had.
You can read it yourself on their website, their belief that a homogeneous society is the only kind of society Sweden must have. That means: out with everyone who comes from places with different cultures. People left? Nordic citizens.
Do you support this party because you want the media masturbation about us to stop or do you want future generation to hate everyone else for the fictional reason that "we're better than everyone else/we're the best"?
Oh and for your information we're not talking about starting to either use Sharia law or electing nationalistic racists.
@ Gwrhyr
I'm all for being green and all that but the green party is.. wrong. Their policies aren't the most green ones. An example is that ethanol because of its production and transportation releases more Co2 emissions than diesel during those two + usage and guess what, they want diesel to cost more because of its Co2 emissions. Diesel is the greenest alternative most of the time, at least for us but they.. well they don't know that which is just embarrassing. They want to tax everything, they would tax us half to death if they could and then choke us because of the Co2 we release when we breed out. Just like I did in the end there they exaggerate and are completely wrong about several of their policies.
I asked already and I'll have to bloody ask again: Did you guys go to the bloody history lessons in the scholl?????? For God sake, I know there are immigration problems, but do you realy think those nuts would be any good for this or any country??? Go to their website and read what they stand for...to me it doesn't sound too different from any Hitler speach.
Behind her oafish grin lies a hidden agenda. Nothing short of a leftist totalitarian state will make her happy. Save Sweden. Defeat the social democrats in 2010!