Published: 10 May 11 15:34 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/33698/20110510/
The Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) does not want to recognise a DNA-test as confirmation of the paternity of a Sierra Leone man currently living with his son in Sundsvall.
What do you think? Leave your comment below.
Far-right websites in Sweden are receiving so much traffic they are seven times more popular than the established political parties' online portals. READ () »
For some foreigners living in Sweden, a natural "inner Swede" can develop that often doesn't show its face until you're back home again. The Local's Patrick Reilly lists the top ten ways this inner-Swede can change your life. READ () »
The Swedish government announced on Tuesday that it would be selling off up to 5.7 percent of its stake in Nordic banking giant Nordea, reducing its holding to 7.8 percent. READ () »
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is prepared to spend another five years inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, but one Swedish lawyer said on Tuesday that the decision would not affect the Swedish case. READ () »
A male Swedish nurse has donned a dress to protest the lack of shorts at a hospital in southern Sweden, saying he had to fight the small battles for gender equality in the workplace. READ () »
A public transport strike appears likely to kick off on Wednesday night after unions and state-transport heads failed to agree on workers' pay and conditions after three days of discussions. READ () »
Almost 2,000 puppies are smuggled illegally to Sweden every year, new statistics reveal, putting Sweden at risk of rabies while endangering the life and health of the trendy dogs. READ () »
A Swedish train driver has been criticized for using the loudspeaker to warn passengers about a beggar on board a Stockholm commuter train, and encouraging them to save their money and rip up the beggar's papers. READ () »
More news from Germany at thelocal.de
More news from France at thelocal.fr
More news from Norway at thelocal.no
More news from Switzerland at thelocal.ch
Register now for:
> Free use of noticeboard
> Special discounts
> Weekly news roundup
> Unlimited use of discuss
This weeks results..week 24/25 »
"A weekend full of surprises and LFC football. Results look like this: Div 5 Men won 4-2, K1 lost 5-0, K2 won 2-1, Vets lost 3-2, R1 lost 4-1. Korpen Ladies play Monday night and on the 26th the Div5 Men close the first half season with the last match before the summer kicks in. /LFC " READ »
Your comments about this article:
The comments below have not been moderated in advance and are not produced by The Local unless clearly stated. Readers are responsible for the content of their own comments. Comments that breach our terms and conditions will be removed.
In Sweden there IS a system...
Well, that's what he should do.
Doesn't sound like racism to me, just sounds like typical bureaucracy.
The typical racist Sweden doesn't exist. I live here and I can confirm that racism exists in Sweden less than any other country including EU, US, Iran, etc.
This is just due to absence of common sense in case of lacking of law!
Oh, how good and benevolent the northern western alliance has proven in raping the resource rich world. How good it has been at ruining societies that were developed and since have become developing with the good benevolent white footfall. How much crap the sheeple believe about how things were, how things are and what is really going on.
If a next ice age comes within a few generations; will the brown skins of the world treat you to 200 years of industrial revolution and feudalism. How quickly the socially engineered poorly educated white northern sheeple forget how they turned into flag waving, fat infirm consumers, ready to believe anything and kill or crucify anyone they are told are baaaad! And no, Oh great wise white ones, not all brown skins are good. For there are wealthy and powerful brown skins that consort with your high and mighty and none give a crud for you; white, brown, yellow or red.
Local; beware the tangled web of lies you weave on behalf of your Frankenstein infirm social engineers.
Did someone actually say during this whole process, "actually, you need to go to Socialnämnden." or did everyone sort of just went with the flow, with court cases and dna tests just to find out that he is making his application in the wrong place?
This is not racism, this case in question is pure administrative bureaucracy! Sweden is not a racist country compared to the rest of the world. There are bad people in every nation and good people as well.
On a different note, my son as part of a university project had his genome tested. Turns out my wife, who can trace her family roots back 400 years in Sweden, carries a wide variety of genes from all over Europe without a concentration of genes from any particular area. I, on the other hand, can trace my family back through Germany/Poland. My genetic markers are concentrated in Northern Spain/Southern France and I have more genetic markers from Scandinavia than she does.
Genetic testing is going to change the way we view heritage. It's new world out there.