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Swedish MPs take Disneyland 'study' tour

Politics: 18 Mar 10
Swedish parliament rules providing for expenses paid educational trips up to a value of 50,000 kronor ($7,000) per annum have prompted three Social Democrat MPs to use the system to 'study tourism' at California's Disneyland. READ »

Opposition youth league registers government 'Alliance' brand

Politics: 17 Mar 10
SSU, the opposition Social Democrat party youth league, has registered the patent for the Swedish word Alliansen (The Alliance) - the collective name used by the government for its four-party coalition. READ »

Record support for Greens: poll

National: 6 Mar 10
Support for the Green Party has increased by three percentage points to 10.6 percent according a new poll, which shows a majority of voters support Sweden's Left-Green alliance. READ »

Housekeeping tax relief divides opposition

National: 28 Feb 10
Sweden's Moderate Party is launching a campaign today to make housekeeping a major issue in the country's upcoming elections thereby exploiting divisions between opposition parties. READ »

Left-Green opposition pulls away: poll

Politics: 26 Feb 10
The Left-Green opposition has increased its lead over the Alliance government, a new poll on Friday shows. The far-right Sweden Democrats polled their highest showing yet. READ »

More Moderates resign over internal vote fraud

Politics: 19 Feb 10
Two Moderate Party politicians in Stockholm have handed in their resignations amid an ongoing internal vote-rigging probe. Stockholm mayor, Sten Nordin expressed his 'disappointment'. READ »

Moderates knew of election list fraud: report

National: 14 Feb 10
Highly placed leaders of the Moderate Party (Moderaterna) have known for weeks that electoral fraud was being committed within the local organization in Stockholm, according to a media report. READ »

Sweden Democrats could enter parliament: poll

National: 14 Feb 10
The nationalist Sweden Democrats have moved ahead of the threshold required for entering parliament, according to a national poll. READ »

Stockholm politician accused of election fraud

Politics: 13 Feb 10
A leading candidate for the Moderate Party (Moderaterna) in Stockholm was forced to stand down on Friday when he admitted to cheating to secure a nomination for this year's general election. READ »

Proposed tax writeoffs for computer and TV installation

Politics: 7 Feb 10
Swedish national elections are still months away. But political parties are already vaunting enticing proposals to woo voters. Such as income tax writeoffs for professional installation of home computers. READ »

Taxes and jobs dominate party leader debate

Politics: 1 Feb 10
Sunday's televised debate between the five leaders of Sweden's major political parties was dominated by taxes and labour market policy, while exposing divisions within the opposing blocs. READ »

Politician caught with child pornography stash

Politics: 30 Jan 10
A Moderate Party politician in Stockholm has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography material including a collection of films and photographs. READ »

Government closes voter gap: poll

Politics: 29 Jan 10
Sweden's ruling centre-right alliance has increased its pulling power among voters to take a 45.7 percent share according to a new poll. But the left-green opposition still maintains its lead with 48.6 percent. READ »

Dissident demo over Iran Interpol listing

Politics: 28 Jan 10
Ten Iranian-born Swedes plan to stage a protest outside the Riksdag on Thursday in a bid to have the Swedish government help get their names removed from an Interpol wanted list. READ »

Moderates add feminist touch to policy platform

Politics: 25 Jan 10
The Moderate Party is making an election year play to increase its appeal to feminist voters, promising to take on gender-based pay disparities and ranking schools according to gender equity, among other proposals. READ »

Sick leave dominates first election year debate

Politics: 20 Jan 10
Sweden's two political blocs each set out their stalls on Wednesday in the first parliamentary debate of 2010, with sickness benefits proving the main bone of contention. READ »

Vellinge council in refugee children reversal

National: 13 Jan 10
The local council in Vellinge in southern Sweden has agreed to allow the municipality to house refugee children, reversing its long standing position on the issue. READ »

Moderate in the poo over immigrant labour claims

Politics: 11 Jan 10
An aide to Sweden's prime minister was put on the defensive on Monday following a Facebook passage in which he praised pro-employment policies that resulted in immigrant labourers cleaning up faeces on the weekend. READ »

Wallström voters' pick for Prime Minister: poll

Politics: 9 Jan 10
Social Democrat Margot Wallström is a more popular choice than Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to lead the country, according to a new poll. The result follows speculation surrounding a secret plan to oust opposition leader Mona Sahlin. READ »

Swedes kill 20 wolves in newly sanctioned hunt

National: 3 Jan 10
After the Swedish environmental authority issued permits for 10 percent of Sweden's entire wolf population to be killed, hunters shot dead more than 20 wolves on Saturday, according to local media estimates. READ »

Opposition poll lead 'very worrying': Reinfeldt

Politics: 14 Dec 09
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has admitted he is concerned by poll results showing the opposition in a commanding lead over the centre-right coalition government. READ »

Opposition extends poll lead to achieve majority

Politics: 13 Dec 09
Sweden’s three centre-left opposition political parties have enough voter support to form their own majority, according to a new poll, which also shows the far-right Sweden Democrats with enough support to gain a spot in the Riksdag. READ »

Victim says axe attack 'politically motivated'

National: 10 Dec 09
A politically active business-owner from Södertälje south of Stockholm is recovering from an axe attack he claims was carried out on the orders of a political rival. READ »

Riksdag sets tougher limits for sick benefits

Business & Money: 10 Dec 09
The Swedish parliament on Wednesday passed controversial new limits on sickness benefits designed to get more people back into the workforce. READ »

Sweden Democrats score five percent in major poll

Politics: 10 Dec 09
The far-right Sweden Democrat party enjoys the support of 5.1 percent of the electorate, according to a major new survey from Statistics Sweden. READ »

Moderates drop four points in new poll

National: 4 Dec 09
A new poll from Expressen/Demoskop shows support for Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate party has dropped by four percent to 25.3 percent. READ »

Vellinge changes course to welcome refugee kids

Politics: 20 Nov 09
Local politicians who previously voiced their disapproval at a move to house asylum seeker children in Vellinge look set to sign an agreement to invite more children to reside in the municipality in the future. READ »

Vellinge residents back refugee children: poll

National: 17 Nov 09
Six of ten residents in Vellinge in southern Sweden are positive toward housing refugee children in the area, despite claims by local politicians that locals oppose the move. READ »

Moderate hierarchy warns Vellinge party cadre

National: 15 Nov 09
The Moderate party secretary Per Schlingmann has warned party members in Skåne in southern Sweden over comments regarding the housing of refugee children at a Vellinge youth hostel. READ »

Malmö Moderates open to SD cooperation

Politics: 8 Nov 09
The Malmö branch of the Moderate party has not ruled out cooperating with the far-right Sweden Democrat party after next year's general election. READ »

Reinfeldt reclaims top spot in Sweden power rankings

National: 6 Nov 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt can once again lay claim to the title of Sweden’s most power person, having nudged his own finance minister Anders Borg from the top spot in a new ranking released on Thursday. READ »

Reinfeldt and Olofsson back Green party talks

National: 23 Oct 09
The Moderates and Centre party have backed coalition partner the Liberal party in calls to work with the Green party instead of the Sweden Democrats if the far-right party held the balance of power in parliament. READ »

Stockholmers 'fund the rest of Sweden': report

Politics: 21 Oct 09
Stockholm-area taxpayers help fund the rest of Sweden to the tune of 14 billion kronor ($2 billion) a year to put the country’s municipalities on an equal financial footing. READ »

Dole drops Bananas!* lawsuit

Business & Money: 15 Oct 09
Dole Foods was withdrawn its lawsuit against Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten over a documentary film which the company claimed contained falsehoods which harmed the US food giant. READ »

Sweden passes divisive wiretapping law

Politics: 14 Oct 09
An amended version of Sweden's controversial new signals intelligence law was passed in the Riksdag on Wednesday, with 158 members voting in favour and 153 against, while one member abstained from voting. READ »

Obama Nobel win shocks Swedish peace group

Politics: 9 Oct 09
The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society has classified as "shameful" the decision by the Nobel Committee in Oslo to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to Barack Obama. READ »

SVT news 'favours the left': Moderate MPs

National: 8 Oct 09
Two Moderate Riksdag members have proposed setting up a body to monitor news coverage by Sveriges Television (SVT) in order to correct what they see as a left-leaning bias at the state broadcaster. READ »

Swedish MPs back filmmaker's battle with US food giant

National: 1 Oct 09
Several members of Sweden’s parliament expressed their support on Thursday for a Swedish-made documentary film that is the target of a lawsuit by Dole Foods. READ »

Opposition nose ahead in new poll

Politics: 13 Sep 09
A year before the Swedish general election the opposition have a slight lead in the opinion polls, a new voter survey shows. Meanwhile Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt remains twice as popular as his main rival Mona Sahlin. READ »

Swedish politician mulls Thai bows to counter swine flu

Politics: 8 Sep 09
A Swedish politician is proposing a novel measure to prevent the spread of swine flu - the introduction of traditional Thai greetings in an effort to reduce direct contact. READ »

Overwhelming support for Reinfeldt over Sahlin

Politics: 4 Sep 09
60 percent of Swedes expressed faith in Fredrik Reinfeldt as prime minister in a new voter survey. Opposition leader Mona Sahlin has the confidence of only 20 percent. READ »

'Taxpayers should not have to fund feminist porn'

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 09
The idea of feminist porn may be attractive to some but there is no reason for the state to cough up half a million kronor to fund its production, argues Beatrice Fredriksson, a member of the Moderate Party's youth organisation and author of the Anti-Feminist Initiative blog. READ »

Publicly funded ‘feminist porn’ to premiere

Society: 1 Sep 09
'Feminist porn' movie Dirty Diaries, which received 500,000 kronor ($69,000) in public funding, is to premiere this Thursday in Stockholm. READ »

Sweden ahead of our neighbours: Borg

Politics: 29 Aug 09
The Swedish economy can recover and reach surplus and a balanced budget before other European countries, Swedish Minister of Finance Anders Borg said at the Moderate Party conference in Västerås on Friday. READ »

Opposition lead widens in poll

Politics: 28 Aug 09
Sweden's opposition parties have opened up a lead of almost 5 percentage points over the governing centre-right Alliance, according to a new poll published on Friday. READ »

Alliance parties agree to reduce taxes

Politics: 28 Aug 09
The Alliance parties have agreed to reduce income tax by 10 billion kronor next year, as part of the fourth stage in the parties’ in-work tax credit programme, meaning individual tax cuts of up to 250 kronor per month. READ »

Sweden Democrats gain in new voter poll

Politics: 23 Aug 09
Sweden’s centre-left opposition parties maintain a slight lead over the governing Alliance parties, while the far-right Sweden Democrats have enough support to gain a seat in the Riksdag, according to a new poll. READ »

Councils to cash in on autumn budget

Business & Money: 10 Aug 09
Local council finances, investments in welfare services and measures to counter unemployment are to be given priority in the autumn budget, according to Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. READ »

Football clubs take a stand for gay pride

Society: 2 Aug 09
Representatives for local football clubs, AIK, Hammarby and Djurgården, were among a slew of celebrities showing their support for gay pride by joining the traditional parade through Stockholm on Saturday. READ »

Anders Borg: Sweden's long-haired maverick minister

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Jul 09
With Anders Borg, Sweden’s pony-tailed Minister of Finance, now helping the EU navigate through the global economic slump, the AFP’s Marc Preel takes a look back at the rise of this self-described pragmatist. READ »

EU's Stockholm Programme to 'bolster individual privacy rights'

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jul 09
As European Union ministers gather in Stockholm on Wednesday Swedish ministers Beatrice Ask and Tobias Billström explain the EU’s efforts to promote cross-border cooperation in the areas of justice, home affairs, and migration. READ »

Outrage over 14-year- old's nipple piercing

Society: 8 Jul 09
The mother of a Swedish teenager is fuming at the ease with which her daughter was able to get her nipple pierced, sparking calls for the introduction of age limits on piercing in Sweden. READ »

Borg bashes business group 'ideologues'

Politics: 3 Jul 09
Sweden’s finance minister Anders Borg lashed out at the country’s business community on Friday, calling Sweden’s main business group “ideological megaphones” who’ve shirked their responsibility during the economic crisis. READ »

Reinfeldt and Bildt: tactician and veteran diplomat at EU helm

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jun 09
A calculating tactician and an impulsive veteran: Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt are Sweden's tag team for the upcoming EU presidency, writes AFP's Pia Ohlin. READ »

Moderates lose as Green Party gains: poll

Politics: 26 Jun 09
Support for the Moderate Party dropped significantly in June, while Sweden’s Green Party reached heights not seen since the 2006 Riksdag elections, a new poll shows. READ »

Animal rights activists force restaurant closure

Society: 25 Jun 09
Threats and vandalism allegedly carried out by animal rights activists have forced a restaurant in Umeå in northern Sweden to close its doors. READ »

Politician buried 11,000 chickens in mass grave

Society: 23 Jun 09
A local politician-cum-chicken farmer in southern Sweden has landed himself in hot water for burying 11,000 hens in a mass grave without contacting the proper authorities. READ »

Far-right climbs over pirates in May poll

Politics: 17 Jun 09
Despite its recent success in the European Parliament elections, the Pirate Party would garner fewer votes than the far-right Sweden Democrats if a general election were held today, a new poll shows. READ »

Pirate Party heads for parliament: poll

Politics: 14 Jun 09
The Pirate Party remains buoyant after its EU election success and could be on its way to claiming seats in the Swedish parliament, a new poll shows. READ »

Increased voter turnout due to young men: poll

Politics: 13 Jun 09
A spike in the number of younger men who decided to cast their vote in recent EU Parliamentary elections is the likely reason for the Pirate Party's success, a new poll shows. 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 »

Pirate Party poll gains continue

Politics: 5 Jun 09
The Pirate Party continues to gain ground in Swedish opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s EU-parliamentary elections. READ »

Christofer Fjellner: A friend of free trade

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jun 09
Moderate Party MEP Christofer Fjellner tells The Local why he is seeking reelection to the European Parliament READ »

Poll dip for main parties ahead of EU elections

National: 30 May 09
The Moderate party has dropped five percentage points to 22.6 percent, according to opinion polls on upcoming elections to the European Parliament conducted by Sifo since April. READ »

'Military should free Dawit by force'

National: 27 May 09
The head of the Moderate Party’s youth wing has proposed that the military be called in to free Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, who has sat in prison in Eritrea for more than seven years. READ »

Anna Maria Corazza Bildt: putting food on the EU agenda

Analysis & Opinion: 25 May 09
With a five-year-old son who's allergic to peanuts, EU election candidate Anna Maria Corazza-Bildt says her platform has sprung from personal experiences at an unlikely place: the grocery store. READ »

Pirate Party Sweden's third-largest: poll

Politics: 22 May 09
Sweden’s Pirate Party has climbed into third place among parties running for the European Parliament elections, according to a new opinion poll released Thursday. READ »

Liberals: Sweden must join NATO

Politics: 13 May 09
The Swedish Liberal Party has demanded that Sweden become a full member of NATO and argues that an open debate over the issue is needed. READ »

Social Democrats and Moderates top new EU pre-election poll

National: 9 May 09
The Social Democratic Party and the Moderate Party both emerged clear leaders ahead of elections to the European Parliament in the latest Sifo opinion poll. READ »

Pirate Party Sweden's third-largest ahead of EU vote: study

Politics: 8 May 09
The Pirate Party will likely be the third largest vote-getter among Swedish political parties in upcoming European Parliamentary elections, according to a new forecast. READ »

Centre Party touts new Swedish labour model

Politics: 5 May 09
The Centre Party, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson, has put itself on a collision course with Sweden's two largest parties by calling for an overhaul of the country's much vaunted labour market model. 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 »

Brussels seat in sight for Pirate Party

Politics: 30 Apr 09
A new poll shows the Pirate Party may soon be representing Sweden in the European Parliament, as it rides a wave of popular support in the wake of the guilty verdict in The Pirate Bay trial. READ »

'Make conscription mandatory for women': Social Democrats

Politics: 28 Apr 09
The Social Democrats want make it mandatory for Swedish women to register for military conscription, rather than allowing them to do so voluntarily. READ »

'Allow foreign police in Sweden': minister

National: 25 Apr 09
Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask wants foreign police to be able to operate in Sweden. A committee of inquiry will be set up to look into ways in which this might work. READ »

Little voter confidence in opposition policies: poll

Politics: 15 Apr 09
Healthcare is the only policy area that the Social Democrats and their fellow opposition parties would handle better than the current centre-right Alliance government, a new poll shows. READ »

Mugabe guard roughs up Riksdag member

Politics: 15 Apr 09
A Swedish parliamentarian’s decision to snap a couple of pictures of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe did not sit well with the president’s bodyguards. READ »

Alliance overtakes opposition: poll

Politics: 4 Apr 09
The Alliance government in Sweden has overtaken the red-green opposition, a new poll shows. The poll indicates that in an election the far-right Sweden Democrats would be left holding the balance of power. READ »

Moderate support at 12-year high: poll

Politics: 15 Mar 09
Support for Sweden's Moderate party, 31.1 percent, is at its highest for 12 years, and the gap between the blocks continues to decline, according to a new poll from Sifo. READ »

Moderate Party: 'half our candidates will be women'

Politics: 6 Mar 09
Sweden’s Moderate Party says it wants half of the party’s candidates for the 2010 elections to be women. READ »

Swedish 'euro support highest since 2002': poll

Politics: 1 Mar 09
Swedish support for the introduction of the euro is at its highest level since 2002 as the June EU parliamentary elections approach. Both the Moderates and the Social Democrats are tipped for election success. READ »

Proposal to reform Sweden's student loan system

Education: 26 Feb 09
A special parliamentary committee is expected to propose on Thursday that Sweden trim the standard number of years students can access publicly funded aid for higher education. READ »

Swedes abandon political parties in droves

Politics: 20 Feb 09
Sweden’s political parties continue to shed members, as parties on the right and the left together saw thousands drop from their membership rolls in 2008. READ »

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. READ »

No fans allowed for Israel tennis match

Sport: 18 Feb 09
Sweden's upcoming Davis Cup tennis match against Israel will be held behind closed doors, Malmö city council ruled on Wednesday. READ »

Moderates want tougher immigration rules

Politics: 17 Feb 09
Naturalized Swedes who received their citizenship under false pretenses could have their Swedish passports revoked, according Migration Minister Tobias Billström. READ »

Swedish intelligence official quits over wiretapping law

Politics: 16 Feb 09
A high-ranking Moderate Party politician and former defence minister has resigned from his post as head of Sweden’s intelligence oversight agency in protest against the country’s controversial wiretapping law. READ »

Most Swedes favour more nuclear power

Politics: 13 Feb 09
As energy policy talks between the government and opposition parties continue, a new poll shows that six of ten Swedes are in favour of building new nuclear power plants. READ »

Opposition presses ahead with anti-nuke stance

Politics: 9 Feb 09
Sweden’s three opposition political parties plan on arriving at government energy talks on Thursday armed with a common position, the parties announced on Monday. READ »

Moderates gain as opposition support drops: poll

Politics: 30 Jan 09
The opposition has hit a two year low in voter support, while the Moderate Party has reached heights not seen since the month following Sweden’s last election, according to a new survey. READ »

Government closes in on opposition: poll

Politics: 25 Jan 09
Sweden's governing coalition is continuing its comeback in the opinion polls, with the Left and Green parties both losing ground, according to a new Sifo survey. READ »

Bodström reported over CIA terror deportations

National: 19 Jan 09
Former justice minister Thomas Bodström and former prime minister Göran Persson have been reported to the Riksdag's constitutional committee after new details emerged over the expulsion of two terror suspects from Sweden to Egypt in 2001. READ »