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'Ban Swedish biker gang vests': Social Democrats

National: 17 Oct 11
Local authorities should be able to ban vests bearing symbols associated with known motorcycle gangs in order to fight organised crime despite constitutional protections, a leading Social Democrat has suggested. READ »

Early retirement should be 'difficult to get'

Politics: 26 Jun 11
A new system to replace young persons' version of early retirement, known as activity compensation, has been suggested by the Liberal Party. READ »

Sweden Democrats stage church sermon walkout

Politics: 5 Oct 10
The Sweden Democrats’ Riksdag delegation left Stockholm's Storkyrkan in protest when racism came up during the ceremonial sermon held before the opening of parliament. READ »

Ask performs public retreat on prostitution

Politics: 24 Mar 10
Sweden's justice minister Beatrice Ask has bowed to mounting criticism and performed a public u-turn on her suggestion that colour-coded envelopes be sent to suspected sex-buyers. READ »

'Curfews and police' can curb Rosengård fires

National: 7 May 09
A prominent Liberal Party Riksdag member on Wednesday called for targeted curfews and more police in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood just hours before a communal refuse facility in the area burned to the ground. READ »

Björklund: 'Leijonborg ouster rumours false'

Politics: 6 Sep 08
Liberal party (Folkpartiet) leader Jan Björklund has rejected reports that he is set to remove his predecessor Lars Leijonborg from the government in October. READ »

Michael Moore attacks Sweden's healthcare reforms

Society: 21 May 07
Filmmaker Michael Moore has attacked the Swedish government for opening up the health service to the private sector. This shows how little he knows about Swedish healthcare, says MP Johan Pehrson. READ »

Lindh killer 'should not go to Serbia'

Politics: 29 Sep 06
A senior Liberal has called for Mijailo Mijailovic, who killed Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh, to be denied his wish to serve out his sentence in Serbia. READ »

Leijonborg fights to win confidence

Politics: 8 Sep 06
Liberal leader Lars Leijonborg faced a grilling following the party's week of scandal. He asked Sweden for forgiveness but maintained he knew nothing about the unauthorized logins to the Social Democrats' network. READ »

Sweden 'needs new intelligence organ'

Politics: 12 Aug 06
Sweden's intelligence agencies need to come together under in an integrated intelligence analysis centre, the Liberal Party says. A new Department of the Interior should be set up to run it. READ »

Bodström welcomes interference probe

Politics: 21 Jun 06
Sweden's justice minister, Thomas Bodström, has said he would welcome a parliamentary inquiry into accusations that he tried to assert improper influence over the Pirate Bay investigation. READ »

Liberals join government on justice

Politics: 31 Mar 06
Liberal justice spokesman Johan Pehrson gets to help draft law and order legislation in return for supporting the Social Democrats when it's presented to parliament. READ »

Informers to earn reduced sentences

National: 21 Dec 05
Justice minister Thomas Bodström is hoping to turn criminals on each other with the promise of reduced punishments for those who snitch on their accomplices. But is there honour among Swedish thieves? READ »

Dismay over drunk killer sentence

National: 20 Oct 05
A drunk driver who killed a baby and her grandmother in 2003 should only serve 18 months in prison, Sweden's Supreme Court decides. The law needs toughening, say politicians. READ »

Young escapees caught

National: 15 Aug 05
Police hunt escaped double murderer - again
The three youngsters who escaped from the Sundbo young offenders' institution on Sunday - one of whom is an 18 year old who murdered two teenage girls last year "and just wants to be moved to an adult prison" - were caught on Monday afternoon. READ »

Police hunt escaped double murderer - again

Smörgåsbord: 15 Aug 05
After a failed escape attempt in June, an 18 year old double murderer does a bunk with two others from one of Sweden's most secure youth units. Police have lost track of them and the prison governor says that all the boy wants is to be moved to an adult prison. READ »


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Sweden strips foreign doctoral candidates of the same rights as other tax-paying migrant workers, argue a group of doctoral candidates from the Royal Institute for Technology (KTH).
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