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The five hottest names in Swedish fashion
Lifestyle: 17 Apr 13
With summer fast approaching, The Local offers up five iconic names in Swedish fashion design so readers into who's hot and what's hip can find their way in the trendy world of Swedish fashion.
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'Cool' Swedish artists descend on US capital
Lifestyle: 19 Feb 13
An opera singer diva, a celebrity florist, and a "folklore" crime novelist from Sweden are set to swarm Washington, DC as part of 2013 Nordic Cool, a festival highlighting artistic accomplishments from Sweden and its neighbours.
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Hamrén says politicians ignoring a timebomb
Sport: 21 Jan 13
National men's football team manager Erik Hamrén has accused the country's politicians of not taking seriously Swedish children's lack of physical fitness.
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Swedes to get Raoul Wallenberg memorial day
Politics: 4 Jan 13
Top Swedish politicians have introduced an official memorial day for the "great Swede" Raoul Wallenberg, who saved 100,000 people from the Holocaust in Budapest during World War II.
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'State-funded arts must embrace digital age'
Society: 2 Jan 13
The Swedish government wants to extend the reach of state-funded cultural offerings by looking into how to digital technology can make plays, music, and dance available to a wider public.
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Sweden's biggest news stories in 2012
Analysis & Opinion: 21 Dec 12
With the end of 2012 in sight, The Local looks back at some of the stories that dominated headlines in Sweden over the past year.
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Fashion and food in focus at Nobel banquet
Society: 10 Dec 12
The annual Nobel banquet in Stockholm is an exercise in culinary creativity, fashion, and logistics, as staff try to get more than 1,300 starters to tables in a stately hall filled with some of Sweden's best dressed and most influential people.
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Sweden scraps income-based 'TV tax' scheme
Business & Money: 22 Oct 12
Sweden's plan to replace licence fees with an income-based tax to fund public broadcasters has been put on ice, according to the ministry of culture, which says that a more thorough analysis into the scheme needs to be carried out.
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Robyn slams minister over 'racist' cake cutting
Society: 8 Jun 12
Swedish pop star Robyn has criticised the culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth for her part in the 'racist' cake controversy, arguing that "we are a multicultural country now, it is time to start acting like one".
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Minstrels and ministers make bad bedfellows
Analysis & Opinion: 19 Apr 12
Art installation or not, politicians have no business taking part in minstrel shows, argues Carmen Price, an American freelance writer based in Stockholm, in reaction to the 'racist' cake controversy involving Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth.
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'Racist' cake sparks new Brussels rebuke
Society: 19 Apr 12
A Brussels-based anti-racism group has condemned Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth for cutting a "racist" cake at a Stockholm art museum, demanding the government issue a formal public apology.
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Minister apologizes over 'racist' cake cutting
National: 19 Apr 12
A public apology by Sweden's minister for culture on Wednesday didn't stop calls for her resignation after she carved up a cake depicting a naked black woman, sparking an onslaught of criticism.
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Museum evacuated after 'racist' bomb threat
Society: 18 Apr 12
A Stockholm museum was evacuated on Tuesday afternoon after receiving a “racially motivated” bomb threat, just days after a controversial piece of artwork had been revealed.
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Minister in 'racist circumcision outrage'
Society: 17 Apr 12
A Swedish minister's cutting of a cake depicting a naked black woman as part of an art installation about female circumcision has been labelled a "racist spectacle" and prompted calls for her dismissal.
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H&M defends marketing lingerie with fake models
Business & Money: 6 Dec 11
Swedish clothing retailer H&M has defended its use of computer-generated bodies adorned with the heads of real models in order to sell swimwear and lingerie.
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Long-term unemployed tapped for Swedish cultural preservation bid
Business & Money: 13 Sep 11
The government has proposed utlising thousands of Swedes with diminished work capacity due to illness or disability in a new effort to help preserve Sweden's cultural heritage.
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Swedish World Cup stars given heroes' welcome
Sport: 19 Jul 11
Götaplatsen in Gothenburg in western Sweden was teeming with exulted football fans on Monday evening, gathered to give the bronze-medal winning women's World Cup team a jubilant welcome back from Germany.
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Green light for Swedish ‘hooligan-register’
Sport: 31 May 11
Stockholm club Djurgården Football has received the approval needed from the Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen) to start up a register of blacklisted supporters to keep them out of sports events.
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Football hooliganism in Sweden - alive and kicking
Analysis & Opinion: 6 May 11
While football hooliganism has all but disappeared in the UK, Sweden continues to struggle with how to deal with the problem, turning it into a political hot potato, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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Introducing the Moderates
Analysis & Opinion: 7 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Moderates, bidding to retain power and become the largest party in Swedish politics.
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Minister: Catholic Church should investigate
National: 30 Apr 10
After a series of reports of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church of Sweden, Bishop Anders Arborelius wants the state to investigate, but the church minister has expressed reluctance, arguing that the church can manage on its own.
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Stieg Larsson's partner reports 'racist' subsidy
National: 28 Apr 10
Eva Gabrielsson, the life partner of deceased Millennium trilogy author Stieg Larsson, has called on Sweden's highest legal official to examine the legality of a press subsidy awarded to a newspaper run by a racist political party.
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Pay-day for extreme-right paper puts subsidies under fire
Society: 24 Apr 10
Sweden's system of press subsidies has come under the microscope after a publication affiliated with an extreme right-wing political party received millions of kronor in public funding this week.
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Sweden calls time on lifetime artist stipends
Society: 17 Feb 10
The Swedish government plans to end the practice of giving a select group of Swedish artists a lifetime income guarantee in the face of stern criticism from supporters of the system.
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Sweden to test 'culture by prescription'
Science & Technology: 10 Nov 09
Doctors in south-western Sweden will soon be able to prescribe cultural activities such as choir lessons or ceramics classes as part of a taxpayer-funded initiative to help reduce prolonged absences from work due to illness.
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What's on in Sweden: May 15 - 21
Lifestyle: 13 May 09
What's on in Sweden: Canadian improv theatre and Morrissey in Stockholm; Funk veterans and Basketball Festival in Gothenburg; Brandy in Malmö.
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What's on in Sweden: May 8 - 14
Lifestyle: 6 May 09
What's on in Sweden: English speaking theatre and American Vaudeville in Stockholm; Uncle Vanya and LGBT Festival in Gothenburg; Jean Michel Jarre in Malmö.
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Police drop charges against metro graffiti art student
Society: 5 May 09
Police have closed an investigation against a former student at Sweden's largest art college accused of vandalizing a metro train carriage. Stockholm transport authority SL is still demanding compensation from the man.
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Students' art subject to legal review
Society: 20 Apr 09
Sweden's University College of Arts, Craft and Design has decided to have lawyers review projects prepared by final-year students for this year’s spring exhibition.
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Riksdag to hear from art school head over vandalism video
Society: 20 Feb 09
The Riksdag’s education committee said on Thursday it plans to call in the head of Sweden's University College of Arts, Craft and Design in the wake of a controversial art project.
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Vandalism costs transport authority 110 million kronor
Business & Money: 16 Feb 09
Graffiti and vandalism cost Stockholm county transport authority SL 110 million kronor ($13 million) last year, new figures show.
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Transport authority outraged over metro graffiti 'art'
Society: 15 Feb 09
Stockholm county transport authority, SL, has demanded compensation from Sweden's largest arts college after one of its students vandalized a metro car in a comment on graffiti.
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Inquiry proposes major culture policy overhaul
Politics: 12 Feb 09
The Committee of Inquiry on Cultural Policy has proposed a major overhaul of Swedish culture policy in a report published on Thursday.
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Sweden decks the halls for Nobel festivities
Society: 10 Dec 08
Over a million Swedes are expected to stay glued to their television sets on Wednesday to watch monarchs, politicians and assorted clever clogs tuck in to the annual Nobel banquet.
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Demonstrators honour Stockholm's 'Romario'
National: 17 Nov 08
A large crowd gathered in central Stockholm on Sunday for a demonstration in honour of Ahmed "Romario" Ibrahim Ali, a 23-year-old footballer stabbed to death in a Stockholm suburb last month.
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Government in press subsidy reversal
Business & Money: 29 Aug 08
The Swedish government has decided not to implement a controversial proposal which would drastically cut press subsidies to the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and Skånska Dagbladet newspapers.
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Amnesty rights report won't stop minister's Olympic travel
Politics: 31 Jul 08
The Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth (left) plans to travel to the Olympic opening ceremony despite a new report from Amnesty damning China's human rights record.
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'Reduce sponsorship of public broadcasting'
National: 30 Jun 08
The government commission examining the future of public broadcasting in Sweden has proposed a drastic reduction in outside sponsorship, according to a report submitted on Monday.
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Tax on press advertising to be abolished
Politics: 29 Jun 08
The government plans to abolish the tax on press advertising, according to culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth.
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Swedish publisher behind EU press subsidy complaint
Business & Money: 6 May 08
Publishing giant Bonnier AB was responsible for delivering a secret complaint to the EU Commission about state support to the press in Sweden.
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Major newspapers to lose press subsidies
Politics: 4 Apr 08
Two major Swedish newspapers are to lose almost all of the subsidies they currently receive from the state.
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Sweden 'must pick woman' for Euro 2008
National: 1 Apr 08
Sweden's hopes for Euro 2008 have been dealt a blow with the news that coach Lars Lagerbäck may be forced to include a female player in his squad.
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Government to consider Swedish language law
Politics: 18 Mar 08
The position of Swedish as a first language ought to be regulated by a language law, according to a recently submitted proposal to the government.
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'A declaration of war on Sweden's youth'
Science & Technology: 14 Mar 08
Plans for a new Swedish government proposal to counteract illegal file sharing met with mixed reactions on Friday.
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Sweden to clamp down on file sharing
National: 14 Mar 08
Courts will be able to force internet service providers to give out IP-addresses used in illegal file sharing.
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Sweden completes digital TV transition
National: 15 Oct 07
Analogue television broadcasts were consigned to Sweden's history books on Monday morning as Skåne became the last region to go digital. Minister for Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth referred to the changeover as "a historic moment".
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Sweden plans crackdown on sports hooligans
Sport: 8 Sep 07
Sweden plans to crack down on hooliganism in football and other sports, the country's justice and sports ministers have written.
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Sweden donates three million dollars to save Bergman's works
Society: 3 Sep 07
The Swedish government said Monday it would donate almost three million dollars (20 million kronor) to preserve the works and memory of legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman who died in July.
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Footballer denounces sport homophobia
Society: 2 Aug 07
The Nordic region's largest gay pride event, Stockholm Pride, was officially opened on Wednesday by former Liverpool and Sweden footballer Glenn Hysén, who spoke of the problem of homophobia in sport.
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Reinfeldt: Bergman's work is immortal
National: 30 Jul 07
Sweden's Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, has led political tributes to film director Ingmar Bergman, who died on Monday at the age of 89.
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Sporting gay fest set for kick-off
Society: 30 Jul 07
Stockholm Pride, the largest gay pride festival in the Nordic region, opens on Monday. Organizers have selected sport as the theme of the festival, with ex-footballer Glenn Hysén a controversial speaker.
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Football legend to inaugurate Pride festival
Society: 12 Jul 07
Popular ex-footballer Glenn Hysén has been named as the inaugural speaker at this year's Stockholm Pride festival.
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Sweden could allow freeze-dried corpses
Society: 16 May 07
Sweden is considering allowing an alternative to burying the dead, in which corpses are freeze dried, after which they can be used as an alternative to compost.
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Bonnier takes over TV4
Business & Money: 22 Mar 07
Marita Ulvskog, the Social Democrats' party secretary has described as "very negative" Bonnier's takeover of TV4. "Marita Ulvskog is becoming more and more like a thoroughbred ostrich," replied TV4's CEO Jan Scherman.
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'No gender quotas in theatres'
Lifestyle: 7 Mar 07
Culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth has disappointed many in the world of Swedish drama by her opposition to compulsory gender quotas for theatrical productions.
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Museums lose visitors after return of entrance fees
National: 22 Feb 07
Visits to Swedish museums have fallen by a third since the government reintroduced entrance charges in January. One museum has seen visitor numbers fall by 83 percent.
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More ads to be allowed on Swedish TV
Politics: 15 Feb 07
Swedish terrestrial channel TV4 will soon be allowed to show as many commercials as its satellite competitors TV3 under proposals being put forward by the country's culture minister.
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Leijonborg calls for transformation of Swedish media
National: 23 Jan 07
Press subsidies should be scrapped, advertising tax should be abolished, and a new national radio news channel should be started, Liberal leader Lars Leijonborg has said.
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Sweden to drop Athletics bid
Sport: 14 Dec 06
The government has said it will not provide financial guarantees to support a bid to stage the International Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. Sweden's Athletics Federation immediately withdrew its bid.
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Genius meets royalty on Nobel Day
Science & Technology: 10 Dec 06
Sunday saw the Swedish party of the year: the Nobel banquet. And as usual, genius and royalty took centre stage at the Stockholm celebrations.
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Sweden loses EU booze ad fight
National: 14 Nov 06
Sweden has lost a battle to get alcohol ads and commercials aimed at children banned from the EU's TV screens. It also failed to force other countries to obey Swedish rules when broadcasting to Sweden.
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'Make golf tax deductible' say MPs
Business & Money: 7 Nov 06
Folk dancing, massage, gymnastics and yoga - all these sports are tax deductible. But golf, riding and sailing are thought a bit too posh, so are not. Now MPs are demanding a change.
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Government won't stop agencies Gotland move
Society: 30 Oct 06
Controversial plans to move two government agencies from Stockholm to Visby have been given the go-ahead by culture minister Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth, despite her own opposition to the idea.
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Reinfeldt announces two new ministers
Politics: 24 Oct 06
Fredrik Reinfeldt's government is back in one piece after a chaotic start that saw two ministers resign. Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth is the new culture minister, while Sten Tolgfors takes over the trade portfolio.
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The Local's Election blog
Politics: 17 Sep 06
The Local is covering the Swedish elections live from the Moderate and Social Democrat election night parties in Stockholm. Read all about it here.
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