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Saunter through Saxony with InterRail: a gateway to central Europe

Travel: 22 May 12
With a history spanning over 1,000 years, the German state of Saxony has transformed over time from medieval duchy, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, kingdom and republic. READ »

CIA made Sweden act for Wallenberg: report

Politics: 22 May 12
The American intelligence service CIA prompted an investigation by Sweden into the Wallenberg case in the 1970s, using false witness statements, according to a new Swedish book. READ »

Silence is golden for Social Democrats' Löfven

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Apr 12
Stefan Löfven appears to have found a recipe for success as the head of Sweden's Social Democrats: keeping his mouth shut. But it remains to seen how long how long he can remain silent, argues historian and commentator David Linden. READ »

Swedish pop starlet's president plea 'a hoax'

Society: 14 Apr 12
A pop video featuring a blonde Swedish singer imploring left-wing French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon to "take power over me" has been revealed to be a media hoax. READ »

'Neutrality to blame in Saudi arms scandal'

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Mar 12
Sweden's neutrality policy and its inability choose between decency and Soviet oppression lies at the heart of the current Saudi arms deal scandal, argues libertarian Swedish commentator and author Fredrik Segerfeldt. READ »

Stockholm 'upper-class safari' under fire

Society: 30 Jan 12
The so called “upper class safari” recently running in Stockholm has come under extreme criticism from residents of the elite suburb, and has even evoked several protest attacks. READ »

'Lundin may have led Bildt to the heart of darkness'

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 11
Swedish investigative journalist Leo Lagercrantz takes a closer look at the Lundin Group and Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt's involvement with it after two Swedish journalists were found guilty of terror crimes in Ethiopia while reportedly investigating the company. READ »

Poland seeks Swedish help before Euro 2012

Sport: 30 Nov 11
The Polish government has asked for assistance from the Swedish police concerning the security situation when Swedish supporters travel to the Euro 2012 football championships. READ »

Cuba follows Sweden to combat prostitution

Society: 11 Nov 11
Cuba is mulling Sweden's model for fighting prostitution whereby buyers of sex are penalized rather than the sex workers, a Cuban sexologist said Thursday. READ »

Lars Ohly: Seven years at the helm of Sweden's Left Party

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Aug 11
Lars Ohly on Tuesday said that he is to step down as leader of Sweden's Left Party. While widely respected as a person and as a skilful debater, his tenure will be remembered more for his stance on Communism and electoral decline. READ »

Bildt praises Serbia after Hadzic arrest

Politics: 20 Jul 11
Sweden's foreign minister and former mediator in the Balkan conflict, Carl Bildt has congratulated Serbia for the arrest of suspected war criminal Goran Hadzic, saying that "justice will pave the way for reconciliation". READ »

China throws out 'flashmob' Swedish blogger

Politics: 9 Jul 11
A Sweden-based student in China has been sent home after calling for a flashmob in Shanghai in support of freedom of expression. READ »

Riksdag votes to extend Libya mission

Politics: 18 Jun 11
Lawmakers voted by a large majority on Friday to extend Sweden's participation in NATO's Libya bombing campaign for another three months. Only the Left Party and far-right Sweden Democrats opposed the move. READ »

Swedes join NATO Baltic air exercise

National: 24 Mar 11
Swedish fighter aircraft took part in a NATO led exercise over the Baltic states on Wednesday, marking a new level in the formally non-aligned country's ties with the military alliance. READ »

Palme's political legacy 'put Sweden on the map'

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
As the 25th anniversary of Olof Palme’s murder is remembered The Local’s Karen Holst explores the political legacy left by the man who delivered Sweden from obscurity and into the globalising world. READ »

Unsolved Palme murder still hurts after 25 years

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Twenty-five years after Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down in central Stockholm, many Swedes still consider the murder an open wound, the AFP's Nina Larsson discovers. READ »

Sweden Democrats: open the Stasi archive

Politics: 4 Feb 11
The Sweden Democrats has demanded that the Swedish Security Service's files on contacts between Swedish individuals and the Stasi be opened to the public in order "to clear the air" over the period in history. READ »

'Wallenberg and Isaak are still worth fighting for'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 11
With Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak in prison in Eritrea and questions still swirling about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, historian Susanne Berger argues that Sweden needs to do more to shorten its ignominious line of unsolved disappearances. READ »

Ohly affirms plans to stay on as Left Party leader

Politics: 14 Jan 11
Despite a growing chorus of criticism from within his party, Left Party leader Lars Ohly reaffirmed his plans to continue at the helm beyond the party’s 2012 congress. READ »

Assange: transparency is 'not for individuals'

National: 24 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lashed out at a British daily for publishing parts of a Swedish police report detailing the rape allegations against him. READ »

Sweden votes to extend Afghanistan mission

Politics: 16 Dec 10
Swedish lawmakers in the country's parliament, the Riksdag, voted on Wednesday to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan until the end of 2011. READ »

Winners accept prizes in Nobel week climax

Society: 10 Dec 10
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf handed the 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry their prizes on Friday at a gala ceremony in Stockholm. READ »

Deal struck on Swedish troops in Afghanistan

Politics: 1 Nov 10
The centre-right Alliance government has reached an agreement with the Social Democrats and the Green Party regarding Sweden’s military mission in Afghanistan. READ »

The failure of Sweden's Red-Green alliance

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Oct 10
The uneasy alliance between Sweden's Social Democrats, Greens, and Left Party was doomed from the start, argues Social Democratic politician and communications consultant Niklas Nordström. READ »

Top Sweden Democrat convicted of libel

Politics: 13 Oct 10
Carina Herrstedt, vice-chairperson of the Sweden Democrats and newly elected member of parliament, has received the support of her party despite having been convicted of libel for the second time within a year. READ »

'Your apathy elected the Sweden Democrats'

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Sep 10
US-born contributor Naomi Olofsson wonders why supposedly immigrant-friendly Swedes who never bothered to help immigrants adjust to life in Sweden seem so outraged at the success of the far-right Sweden Democrats. READ »

Alliance takes one step towards majority

Politics: 22 Sep 10
Sweden's governing Alliance coalition has preliminarily increased its number of seats in the Riksdag to 173, two short of an overall majority, as the recount of advance and overseas ballots continued on Wednesday afternoon. READ »

Sweden Democrats tip scales in 30 councils

Politics: 22 Sep 10
The Sweden Democrats hold the balance of power in 30 of Sweden's 290 municipal councils, the anti-racist magazine Expo revealed on Wednesday in a compilation of election results. READ »

Social Democrats face identity crisis in wake of election disaster

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Sep 10
Limping forward after their worst election result since World War I, Sweden’s Social Democrats find themselves forced to look for a new identify, writes the AFPs Marc Preel. READ »

Sahlin admits defeat in 'very bad' election

National: 20 Sep 10
Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin admitted her party had a dismal election, spoiling her bid to become Sweden’s first female prime minister, but vowed to fight the far-right, which entered parliament for the first time. READ »

Immigrants vote against Sweden Democrats

National: 19 Sep 10
Stockholm's heavily immigrant suburb Rinkeby was busy on Sunday as campaigners warned voters about the possible consequences of a strong showing of Sweden's far-right Sweden Democrats. READ »

Welfare and taxes dominate final debate

Politics: 18 Sep 10
Sweden's welfare state overshadowed the possible entrance into parliament of the far-right Sweden Democrats in the final televised party leader debate before elections on Sunday. READ »

Dramatic election set to make Swedish history

Analysis & Opinion: 17 Sep 10
With polls showing Swedish voters set to re-elect a centre-right government for the first time in decades and the far-right possibly holding the balance of power, Sweden's September 19th election has no shortage of drama, explains the AFP's Nina Larson. READ »

Sweden's welfare state has endured centre-right rule: experts

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 10
As Sweden's centre-right government hopes to win another four years in power, fears that conservative rule would cripple Sweden's welfare state may have been unfounded, the AFP's Nina Larson explains. READ »

Parties struggle to entice first time voters

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Sep 10
With record numbers of first time Swedish voters heading to the polls on September 19th, politicians continue to struggle to reach both young Swedes and their parents, explains the AFP’s Rita Devlin Marier. READ »

Party leaders vow not to work with far-right

Politics: 13 Sep 10
Sweden's two main prime minister candidates pledged not to work with the nationalist Sweden Democrats in a debate aired Sunday, a week before elections. READ »

Introducing the Left

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Left Party, bidding to assume power within the centre-left Red-Green coalition. READ »

Parties court pensioner votes in tight election

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Sep 10
As strikes ripple across debt-ridden Europe over pension reforms, the two coalitions battling it out in Sweden's close upcoming elections on September 19th are courting elderly voters, who may end up holding the balance, writes AFP's Rita Devlin Marier. READ »

Record high support for Reinfeldt as PM: poll

Politics: 23 Aug 10
A poll published Monday, less than a month before the Swedish general election, showed that nearly two-thirds of Swedes support Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to lead the next government. READ »

Party leaders, not issues, will determine election

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Aug 10
Elections in Sweden tend to be decided over issues rather than candidates, but with the upcoming September 19th vote for the first time pitting two blocs against each other, personal politics are playing an unprecedented role, writes AFP's Rita Devlin Marier. READ »

Liberals slam Left Party for dictatorship aid

National: 5 Jul 10
Liberal Party MP and foreign affairs spokesperson Fredrik Malm has accused the Left Party of funneling millions of kronor in development aid to leftist authoritarian and totalitarian regimes and causes. READ »

Court gives access to Swedish Stasi archives

National: 24 Jun 10
Documents containing the names of Swedes who worked for the Stasi, East Germany’s security service, must be made available to researchers, a court ruled on Friday. READ »

Sweden urges EU 'open door' on Balkans

Politics: 2 Jun 10
Sweden has joined forces with Italy to call on the EU to demonstrate that the "door is open" to Balkan country membership of the union as the enthusiasm of some members starts to cool. READ »

Poll blow for Social Democrats

Politics: 27 May 10
A new poll shows Sweden’s opposition Social Democrats have fallen to their lowest level of support since the 2006 election. READ »

Court to review access to Sweden's 'Stasi files'

National: 21 Apr 10
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court has taken up the case of a researcher who is applying for access to classified security police documents relating to Stasi contacts in Sweden. READ »

'Catholics in Sweden must challenge Rome'

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Apr 10
The Catholic Church in Sweden must demand that the Vatican abolish celibacy for priests, allow women to be ordained, stop oppressing homosexuals, and reverse its ban on contraception, argues Swedish Catholic and poet Marcus Birro. READ »

Geely's Volvo buy signals new world order: Swedish media

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Mar 10
Chinese carmaker Geely's deal to buy Sweden's iconic Volvo brand offers a glimpse of a new world order clearly headed up by China, Swedish editorials said on Monday. READ »

Win tickets to action-packed English-language theatre show

Lifestyle: 2 Mar 10
Stockholm theatre group Improvisation and Co. is currently wowing Stockholm audiences with its ad hoc brand of thrilling on-stage action. The Local has tickets to the show. READ »

Iran puts ten Swedes on Interpol wanted list

National: 29 Dec 09
Ten Swedes of Iranian descent are named on Interpol’s list of criminals wanted for terrorism and international organized crime. READ »

North Korean jeans label opens pop-up shop in Stockholm

National: 20 Dec 09
After PUB department store in Stockholm yanked NoKo Jeans from its shelves at the beginning of December, the North Korean jeans label opened its own pop-up shop on Saturday. READ »

Former Volvo directors oppose Chinese sale

Business & Money: 12 Dec 09
Chinese automaker Geely is not a suitable owner of Volvo Cars, according to eight former Volvo directors. But Volvo Cars management has dismissed the opposition to the deal as bordering on xenophobia. READ »

What can't be said can be written: Herta Müller

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Dec 09
Nobel literature laureate Herta Müller contemplated the power and meaning of words as she began her literature lecture on Monday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. READ »

PUB yanks North Korean jeans due to concerns over labour conditions

National: 6 Dec 09
On Saturday, PUB department store in Stockholm put a stop to the sale of the first jeans to come out of North Korea due to concern about working conditions in the communist country. READ »

Jeans 'made in North Korea' set to hit store shelves in Sweden

Society: 2 Dec 09
A trio of young Swedish entrepreneurs will on Friday launch what it calls the first-ever brand of North Korea-made jeans. READ »

Swedish Rail Destinations: Berlin

Travel: 1 Dec 09
Sponsored article: Berlin's turbulent history has made it one of the most fascinating and exciting cities in the world. And with night trains running from Sweden throughout the Christmas period, it's also very accessible. READ »

Estonia agrees to repay emergency Swedbank loan

Business & Money: 29 Oct 09
Swedbank learned on Thursday that the government of Estonia was planning to repay the €50 million ($74 million) it borrowed from the Swedish bank to help it through the country’s economic crisis. READ »

Czechs praise Swedish input on Lisbon treaty

National: 23 Oct 09
Sweden was lauded on Friday by the Czech President Vaclav Klaus for framing a solution to his demands for an opt-out from the bloc's Lisbon Treaty. READ »

Sweden cautions Czechs over Lisbon 'opt outs'

Politics: 9 Oct 09
The Swedish EU presidency has cautioned the Czechs that their demands for an extra "footnote" on the Lisbon treaty sends out "the wrong message at the wrong time". READ »

Documents cast doubt on Swede's spy conviction

National: 28 Sep 09
For the past 25 years the Swedish Security Service has been sitting on documents attesting to the innocence of a man charged in Sweden with espionage in 1983, a new investigation has revealed. READ »

Estonia approves TeliaSonera purchase

Business & Money: 25 Sep 09
The Estonian government formally approved the sale of the state's 27 percent stake in telecoms provider Eesti Telekom to the Nordic group Telia Sonera. READ »

TeliaSonera to increase stake in Estonian telecoms firm

Business & Money: 23 Sep 09
Estonia is set to sell its share of leading telecommunications provider, Eesti Telekom, to Nordic group TeliaSonera. READ »

Swedish parliament behind Wikipedia celebrity smears

Science & Technology: 22 Sep 09
Actor George Clooney is a "communist amateur" and Swedish actress and comedian Nour El-Refai is a "feminist bitch", according to someone, or several people, using computers traced to the Riksdag. READ »

EU mulls visas for Canadian tourists

Politics: 15 Jul 09
Speaking for the European Union presidency, Swedish migration minister Tobias Billström said on Wednesday that the EU supported requiring visas for Canadians travelling to the EU in the wake of a Czech-Canada visa spat. READ »

European leaders impatient for Swedish EU presidency

National: 28 Jun 09
European leaders have expressed impatience for the Swedish EU presidency to start after a troubled six months under the Czechs. READ »

Migration agency used anti-Muslim lawyer

National: 24 Jun 09
A lawyer contracted by the Swedish Migration Board to represent asylum seekers has a personal blog in which he refers to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”. READ »

Swedes meet detained US journalists in North Korea

Politics: 17 May 09
The Swedish ambassador to North Korea met two detained US journalists on Friday, the first such contact in six weeks, a senior US official said. READ »

The subtle pleasures of Europe Day: Margot Wallström

Analysis & Opinion: 9 May 09
"If you tried to market the EU as an aphrodisiac, it would rate up there with a nice pair of socks," writes Sweden's EU Commissioner Margot Wallström. But, she adds, May 9th is Europe Day and there's much to celebrate. READ »

Sweden Democrat leader joins white power singsong

National: 6 Apr 09
Leading members of the far-right Sweden Democrats sang racist songs while attending a party conference. Party leader Jimmie Åkesson was among the singers. READ »

UK spy probe targeted Swedish actress

Society: 3 Mar 09
The late Swedish actress Mai Zetterling was trailed by British spy services for fear that she was a communist sympathizer, according to secret files released on Tuesday. READ »

Swedes 'too quick to pick sides' in Gaza conflict

Analysis & Opinion: 20 Jan 09
An Israeli national on a temporary stay in Sweden, Omri Grinberg is dismayed by the lack of nuance displayed by supporters of both sides in the Gaza war. READ »

Sweden-based former dissident bears no grudge against Kundera

Society: 13 Oct 08
A former Czech pilot now living in Sweden said he bore no ill will against Milan Kundera following reports on Monday that the writer informed on him to the secret police in the 1950s. READ »

Activists fight to prevent Iranian feminist's deportation

National: 17 Sep 08
Demonstrators are set to gather in Stockholm on Wednesday to protest the impending deportation of an Iranian woman’s rights activist and anti-Islam blogger after she was denied a Swedish residence permit. READ »

North Korea declares Sweden an enemy

Politics: 19 Aug 08
The Communist North Korean government has declared Sweden their enemy and a US war puppet. READ »

Surveillance law vote ‘betrayed tenets of a democratic state’

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Jul 08
Bangladeshi refugee and writer Tasneem Khalil explains why the Riksdag's vote in favour of the surveillance law has him feeling let down by the country to which he fled to escape state-sanctioned domestic spying. READ »

Ohly challenged for Left party leadership

Politics: 7 Jun 08
Lars Ohly has been challenged for the leadership of the Left party. Modernizer Staffan Norberg has nominated himself at the party's conference in Norrköping. READ »

Author's secret will: 'Give my money to Communists'

Society: 29 May 08
Journalist and author Stieg Larsson left behind a signed will after all. READ »

Swedish justice: A matter of interpretation

Analysis & Opinion: 26 May 08
As a growing array of languages jostle for position in the towns and suburbs of Sweden, Faisal Enayat Khan examines some linguistic shortcomings in the country's legal system. READ »

Swedish music's European tour

Lifestyle: 4 May 08
The summer is fast approaching, and with it Europe’s festival season. What better way to spend a couple of lazy months than checking out some of Sweden’s hottest acts as they wow audiences across the continent. David Bartram is your festival guide. READ »

Stockholm art gallery guide: April 18 - 24

Lifestyle: 18 Apr 08
This week’s art tips from Kalendarium. READ »

China, Reinfeldt, and the Olympics: a real mouthful

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Apr 08
Social democratic newspaper editor Eric Sundström hopes Fredrik Reinfeldt at least says something about human rights and the Olympics during the Prime Minister’s visit to China. READ »

Stockholm art gallery guide

Lifestyle: 10 Apr 08
Five weekend art gallery tips from Kalendarium. READ »

Making history: the Gulag, the Holocaust, and Sweden

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Apr 08
Who suffered more, victims of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, or victims of Hitler, Eichmann, and Himmler? And what role does the Swedish state have in answering the question? David Landes looks at what Sweden’s papers have to say about the issue. READ »

Academics slam state history agency

Society: 2 Apr 08
A group of irate Swedish academics have penned a stinging critique of Sweden's Living History Forum. READ »

Communism new focus for history agency

National: 10 Mar 08
Sweden's Living History Forum has launched a project to highlight crimes against humanity committed by communist regimes. READ »

Foreign ministry double agent fooled Soviet spies

Politics: 1 Feb 08
A former high-ranking foreign ministry official speaks out about his time as a double agent. READ »

Riga: Strangely unfamiliar

Travel: 18 Jan 08
Taking a ferry out of Stockholm need not mean a booze cruise to Helsinki. Alannah Eames went to Latvia to check out one of Sweden's most charming neighbours. READ »

CIA attempted to recruit young Olof Palme

National: 13 Jan 08
The Americans saw the young activist and future prime minister as a key figure for countering communist influence in student organizations. READ »

Language tensions mount in bilingual Finland

Lifestyle: 4 Dec 07
Finland's small Swedish-speaking minority is concerned the country's second official language is at risk, writes AFP's Gael Branchereau. READ »

Romanian film takes Stockholm's top prize

Society: 25 Nov 07
A Romanian film on illegal abortion takes top prize at the Stockholm International Film Festival. READ »

Swedish Mafia: fighting a losing battle

Lifestyle: 8 Nov 07
To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. Daniel Boman reports. READ »

Doris Lessing wins Nobel

National: 11 Oct 07
British author Doris Lessing - "that epicist of the female experience" - has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy has announced. READ »

Greens rule out coalition with Left Party

Politics: 9 Oct 07
Green Party spokesman Peter Eriksson has dismissed the Left Party as "backward-looking and old-fashioned". He aims instead to create a two-party coalition with the Social Democrats. READ »

'Release names of Stasi spies'

Politics: 8 Oct 07
A Moderate Party member of parliament has called for security service Säpo to publish the names of Swedes who collaborated with the Stasi, East Germany's feared secret police. READ »

How persistent can a failed ideology be?

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Aug 07
Ninety percent of Swedish students aged 15-20 do not know what a gulag was, and some still insist that schools should not teach about the crimes of communism. How long will the elites continue defending a failed ideology, asks Captus's Nima Sanandaji. READ »

Revealed: CIA spied on Swedish 'extremists'

Politics: 27 Jun 07
Documents released this week by the CIA have revealed that the agency sent spies to Stockholm in the early 1970s to gather information on Swedish 'efforts to support domestic US extremism'. READ »

Chinese diplomat tries to silence Swedish politician

Politics: 15 May 07
A diplomat at the Chinese embassy in Stockholm has tried to stop a Swedish Member of Parliament from giving a talk on democratization in China. READ »

Young Swedes lack knowledge about communism

Society: 9 May 07
Swedes aged 15-20 are ignorant about the fate of neighbouring countries before the fall of communism. A fifth thought communism had claimed less than a million lives. READ »

Swedish Castro broadcast 'too positive' about dictator

Society: 16 Apr 07
An evening of documentaries and discussions on SVT 'celebrating' the 80th birthday of Fidel Castro were biased, according a ruling from the Swedish Broadcasting Commission. READ »

Introducing...Robert Wells

Lifestyle: 5 Mar 07
He's a hirsute cross between Richard Clayderman and Europe who can fill a concert arena better even than Elton John. Paul O'Mahony rhapsodizes about Robert Wells. READ »

Cambodian genocide documents found in Sweden

Politics: 13 Feb 07
The Swedish government has sent 26 boxes of documents to an independent Cambodian group investigating the Khmer Rouge genocide. READ »


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