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MEPs acted against Swedish interests: PM

Politics: 27 Nov 12
Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is unhappy with Swedish members of the European parliament who supported an EU budget increase despite his centre-right coalition trying to keep down the costs. READ »

Malta foreign minister a 'dinosaur': Swedish MEP

Politics: 12 Nov 12
A Swedish member of the European Parliament has blasted Malta's European Commissioner-designate and current foreign minister Tonio Borg as a "scandal" and a "dinosaur" due to his conservative views on women's rights. READ »

Boy who sewed lips shut to stay in Sweden

National: 6 Sep 12
The 15-year-old boy from Afghanistan who sewed his mouth shut after his residency application was rejected will not be deported from Sweden after a previous decision was reversed on Thursday. READ »

Boy who sewed mouth shut to be deported

National: 5 Sep 12
A 15-year-old boy from Afghanistan who sewed his mouth shut after his application for Swedish residency was rejected will be deported to Italy, in what a Swedish MEP called a "humanitarian catastrophe in my own country". READ »

Bildt WikiLeak 'troublesome' if true: MP

Politics: 21 Jan 11
A Green Party member is considering reporting Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Migration Minister Tobias Billström to a parliamentary committee following a WikiLeak exposing statements that they made in 2007 about Iraqi refugees. READ »

Svensson and Corazza Bildt set to stage election upset

Politics: 8 Jun 09
Alf Svensson, the former leader of the Christian Democrats, and Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, the wife of the Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, appear set to claim seats in the EU parliament at the expense of their party colleagues. READ »

'File sharing law goes too far': Swedish EU election candidates

Science & Technology: 4 May 09
A clear majority of the Swedish candidates seeking election to the EU parliament are against the IPRED copyright law, arguing that EU countries have gone too far in the hunt for file-sharers. READ »

Italian outcry over Swedish 'slander'

Society: 26 Nov 08
The Italian Ambassador to Sweden has slammed a petition raised this week by a Swedish member of parliament in support of high profile Italian author Roberto Saviano. READ »

Government unites around new FRA-law

Politics: 26 Sep 08
Sweden’s centre-right Alliance government announced a new version of the country’s controversial surveillance law on Thursday, claiming it had succeeded in making changes to the measure which satisfy critics of the original bill. READ »

Liberal Party FRA-law revolt widens

Politics: 18 Jul 08
A split has widened in the Liberal Party (Folkpartiet) which could lead to the scrapping of Sweden’s controversial surveillance law. READ »

Liberals demand snoop law retreat

Politics: 14 Jul 08
Former leaders of the Liberal Party, including Bengt Westerberg, have called on the government to back down over the controversial snoop law. READ »

Dissenters put snoop vote on knife edge

Politics: 17 Jun 08
Four centre-right members of parliament, the exact number needed to block Sweden's hotly debated new surveillance law, have not yet committed to voting in favour of the bill. READ »

Controversial author offered refuge in Sweden

Society: 2 Jun 08
Under fire Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has been offered a safe haven in the Swedish town of Uppsala. READ »

Free museum entry to be abolished

Society: 11 Oct 06
From January 1st next year it will no longer be free to visit Sweden's museums - despite a massive increase in visitor numbers since the scheme was introduced in 2005. READ »

Statoil cuts price of petrol

Business & Money: 14 Jul 05
Statoil has cut the price of petrol by 15 öre per litre to 11.72 kronor per litre. The move breaks a run of eight straight price rises since mid-May. READ »

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