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New Stockholm mayor named

National: 24 Apr 08
Moderate Party Riksdag member Sten Nordin is the unanimous choice of his party’s City Hall nominating committee to take over as Stockholm’s new mayor. READ »

Mayor of Stockholm resigns

Politics: 16 Apr 08
Mayor of Stockholm Kristina Axén Olin has handed in her resignation. READ »

Bromma airport's future safe for three more decades

Business & Money: 18 Mar 08
Stockholm’s Municipal Council decided on Monday night to renew the lease on Bromma airport for another 30 years. READ »

E-Type quits beauty job

Society: 24 Oct 07
He was the Eurodance star who had plans to build a Viking village in the capital, but now after less than a year, Martin 'E-Type' Eriksson is stepping down from Stockholm's 'Beauty Council'. READ »

Viking clash: Danes and Swedes battle to be biggest

Lifestyle: 18 Oct 07
When Stockholm's Mayor donned a t-shirt proclaiming the city 'Capital of Scandinavia', the reaction from the neighbours was predictably indignant. Daniel Boman looks at how Stockholm and Copenhagen are battling to prove who's biggest and best. READ »

Stockholm 'world's most livable city'

National: 22 Sep 07
Stockholm is the world's greenest, most livable city, according to a survey carried out by the Reader's Digest magazine. READ »

Bromma Airport gets 30 year life extension

National: 21 Sep 07
Stockholm's most central airport has just been given 30 more years to live after the City of Stockholm and the civil aviation authority signed a new agreement on Friday. READ »

Congestion charge returns to Stockholm

National: 1 Aug 07
Congestion charging has been reintroduced in Stockholm, more than a year after a six month trial of the scheme ended. READ »

Major Stockholm rail project given go-ahead

National: 31 May 07
A plan to build a rail tunnel under Stockholm was approved by the government on Thursday, in a move that should allow the relief of one of Sweden's worst rail bottlenecks. READ »

Stockholm mayor: election stress almost broke me

Politics: 15 Jan 07
Stockholm mayor Kristina Axén Olin has admitted that last year's election and her mother's death led her to drink too much and to pop too many painkillers. Now she says she's back on track. READ »

Billström ditched by Social Democrats

Politics: 10 Oct 06
Former Stockholm mayor Annika Billström has been thrown out as her party's leader on Stockholm council after a disastrous election result. She is to be replaced by former foreign aid minister Carin Jämtin. READ »

Axén Olin toasts Stockholm win

Politics: 18 Sep 06
Mayor Annika Billström and her Social Democrats are decisively rejected by voters in Stockholm, who put their faith in the Moderates' Kristina Axén Olin to lead the city for the next four years. READ »

Neither Ja nor Nej to congestion charge

Politics: 18 Sep 06
With Stockholmers voting in favour of congestion charging, but residents of the suburbs handing down a Nej, it's uncertain whether the road tolls will go ahead. READ »

Poll: Billström set for ejection

Politics: 31 Aug 06
The media focus may be on the general election, but local elections up and down the country could also provide surprises. In Stockholm, the ruling Social Democrats face an upphill struggle. READ »

Stockholm congestion charge vote "a farce"

Politics: 28 Nov 05
As the political parties bicker over what should be written on the backs of ballot papers in the congestion charge vote, Mayor Annika Billström says that it should be classified as a charge, not a tax. But the finance minister disagrees. READ »

Police keep missed targets under wraps

National: 30 Aug 05
Stockholm police are in the doghouse for not mentioning in their annual report that they failed to meet more than half of their targets for 2004. But Uppsala police get the thumbs-up for their work on the Knutby case. READ »

"Castrate rapists" says Swedish politician

National: 16 Aug 05
As the number of reported rapes in Stockholm rises dramatically, Moderate Party councillor and chairman of the city's police board Kristina Axén Olin proposes chemically castrating repeat offenders. READ »

Three arrested for train sabotage

National: 13 Oct 04
Stones thrown at trains, bicycles dumped on the tracks and conductors strangled and spat at - and nobody's interested. Cancel a few rush hour trains and suddenly it's the week's biggest story. READ »


Highlights from Follow Sweden

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

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 »


Blog Update: Julie's Nordic Island

12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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The Local's Oliver Gee finds out why the star of Sweden's version of 'The Office' thinks Sweden is the most PC country in the world
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'Drunkorexia' on the rise in Sweden: report
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Seven Swedish designs that will blow your mind
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Star Wars in Swedish causes fan outrage
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The Swedish language needs a new pronoun free of preconceived notions about gender, a Swedish linguist and representatives from a publishing house argue
Madonna set for July 4th concert in Sweden
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Madonna set for July 4th concert in Sweden
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An inside look at 'The Office' in Swedish
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SOCIETY »
Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer
Photo: Fredrik Persson/Scanpix
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A duvet cover designed to look like cardboard boxes, on sale at a luxury department store in Stockholm, has some arguing that the city's homeless are being exploited for profit.
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Five Swedish songs that never made Eurovision
Q&A with Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley
LIFESTYLE »
Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley explains how ‘three bespectacled English guys’ plan to make Swedes laugh
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Move over Bugs – a Swedish bunny is rapidly becoming the most popular rabbit in the world!
Photo: Sony Pictures
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How Millennium films tap deep into Swedish angst
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Braving the cold: Ten reasons to spend winter in Sweden
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A truly international education at the heart of Berlin
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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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