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Reinfeldt leads voter support poll

Politics: 20 Mar 10
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt retains his position at the top of the party leader board in a new survey on voter confidence while support for opposition leader Mona Sahlin continues to decline. READ »

Sahlin slams Erdogan over expulsion threat

Politics: 18 Mar 10
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has blasted Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over threats that he would consider ordering 100,000 Armenians to leave Turkey. READ »

Sahlin seeks clarification on Sweden's NATO ties

National: 16 Mar 10
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has demanded clarification over Sweden's relationship to the NATO military alliance, accusing the government of moving towards full membership. READ »

Malmö mayor blasted for 'Israeli lobby' comment

Politics: 4 Mar 10
Representatives for the Jewish Community in Malmö have slammed the city's mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, for his use of the term "Israeli lobby" in a Danish television interview. READ »

Swedes back housekeeping tax relief

Politics: 3 Mar 10
A new poll shows Swedes are in favour of the system of household services tax relief that the left-green opposition has declared it will abolish - despite its popularity among top Social Democrats - if it wins the autumn election, READ »

Opposition to end housekeeping tax relief

Politics: 2 Mar 10
The left-green opposition has confirmed that it plans to abolish the system of tax relief for household services that the government claims has generated 7,000 jobs. READ »

Malmö mayor says unaware of level of attacks on Jews

Politics: 26 Feb 10
Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu conceded that he has not been sufficiently well informed about the vulnerable situation faced by Jews after meeting with community leaders on Thursday. READ »

Sahlin raps Malmö mayor over Jew comments

Politics: 25 Feb 10
Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin has described as "unfortunate" comments made by Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu regarding a recent spate of attacks on the city's Jewish population. READ »

Green Party stumbles in new poll

Politics: 5 Feb 10
The two political blocs have drawn to within three percentage points of each other, a new voter poll shows. The Green Party is the biggest loser in the new survey. 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 »

Reinfeldt: no burqa ban in Sweden

Politics: 28 Jan 10
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said definitively on Thursday that he is against introducing legislation which would ban women from wearing burqas. READ »

Bag lady Sahlin photo stirs moral debate

Politics: 23 Jan 10
Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin has stirred opinion pages without saying a word. Her morals have been questioned after she was pictured with political peers clutching a 6,000 kronor ($828) designer bag. 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Dutch luxury carmaker confirms interest in Saab

National: 2 Dec 09
A second niche luxury sports carmaker, Spyker, has confirmed it is interested in buying Saab Automobile. READ »

Sahlin open to centre- right cooperation

Politics: 27 Nov 09
Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin has responded to a new opinion poll showing an increased support for the far-right Sweden Democrats by voicing the possibility of governing with the Liberal and Centre parties. READ »

Green Party makes ground among voters

Politics: 7 Nov 09
Green Party co-leader Maria Wetterstrand has surpassed Mona Sahlin as the main challenger to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt for the affections of Swedish voters, according to a new poll 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 »

Left coalition partners in show of conference unity

Politics: 1 Nov 09
The Social Democrats welcomed their centre-left coalition partners, the Green and Left parties, to their ongoing conference on Sunday - the first time outside parties have taken part. READ »

Sahlin demands answers over KGB revelations

Politics: 26 Oct 09
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has called on writer Jan Guillou to lift the lid on any information he may have passed to the KGB about her party. Guillou has confessed to working for the KGB but insists his assignments were of a journalistic nature. 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 »

Swedes set to ignore church elections

National: 20 Sep 09
Polling booths are opening across Sweden on Sunday morning to welcome voters in the national church elections. The election is however expected to be given the cold shoulder by 90 percent of registered voters. READ »

Sahlin slammed for partying in Majorca

Politics: 18 Sep 09
Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin has been criticized for partying with celebrities in Majorca instead of staying at home to campaign in the run-up for the church elections on September 20th. 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 »

Sahlin keen to raise taxes

Politics: 9 Sep 09
The opposition Social Democrats have said they are preparing to raise taxes and reintroduce wealth tax if elected next year in a bid to save jobs, and raise the quality of schools and health care. 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 »

Government maintains popular approval: poll

Politics: 7 Sep 09
A large majority of Swedes maintain confidence in the four-party centre-right Alliance government, according to a new Skop poll. 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 »

No equality quotas for boards: Olofsson

Business & Money: 2 Sep 09
Industry minister Maud Olofsson has washed her government’s hands of the responsibility for ensuring equal representation of women and men on company boards. READ »

Child benefits must be raised: Sahlin

Politics: 16 Aug 09
Mona Sahlin, leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, has said child maintenance support benefit levels will be raised if there is a change of government next year. READ »

'Sahlin more hetero than Obama': Stockholm Pride

Society: 19 Jul 09
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin is more heterosexual than US President Barack Obama, at least if a new survey by Stockholm Pride is to be believed. READ »

Euro support hits six-year high: poll

Business & Money: 23 Jun 09
Support for Sweden joining the eurozone has reached its highest point since the 2003 referendum, with voters in favour of retaining the krona maintaining a lead of just one percentage point in a new poll. READ »

Party leaders lament low voter turnout

Politics: 8 Jun 09
Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund has called for campaigning to be extended before the EU parliamentary election to raise interest and encourage more Swedes to vote. READ »

Crisis and EU dominate party leader debate

Politics: 18 May 09
The financial crisis and its effects dominated the debate between the seven parliamentary party leaders on national Swedish television on Sunday evening. Party leaders would have liked more time to discuss the EU elections. READ »

Reinfeldt extracts EU presidency 'truce' from opposition

Politics: 6 May 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday urged party leaders from the political opposition to agree to a truce on contentious domestic issues during Sweden’s upcoming European Union (EU) presidency. READ »

Sahlin promises assistance to pensioners

Politics: 2 May 09
Swedish Social Democratic Party leader Mona Sahlin promised to work for increased unemployment benefits in her May Day speech on Friday, particularly addressing the issues facing pensioners. READ »

Sahlin hit by massive crisis of confidence

Politics: 8 Apr 09
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt enjoys almost twice as much voter support as Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin, according to a new survey. READ »

Union chief avoids sack

National: 7 Apr 09
Wanja Lundby-Wedin is to remain in her post as head of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO), it was announced after a seven hour board meeting on Monday. READ »

Union chief resigns from AMF Pension

Politics: 5 Apr 09
Wanja Lundby-Wedin, head of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO) has resigned from the board of AMF Pension. The announcement was made after a meeting of LO's board on Sunday. 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 »

Opposition wants end to nuclear power

Politics: 22 Mar 09
The three opposition parties have announced their intention to phase out Sweden's nuclear power capacity if they were to win the next election in 2010. READ »

Record high voter confidence for Reinfeldt: poll

Politics: 18 Mar 09
Confidence in Fredrik Reinfeldt has climbed by more than 10 percentage points in the last 12 months, with a record high 52 percent of voters supporting the Swedish prime minister. 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 »

Reinfeldt calls SEB pay raises 'indulgent'

Politics: 12 Mar 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has joined Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin in lashing out against the SEB banking group over a decision to hike executive pay. READ »

Alliance parties close on opposition: poll

Politics: 28 Feb 09
The huge lead long enjoyed by the tri-partite opposition in Swedish politics has been almost completely eroded as the Alliance parties continue to gain voter support, a new poll shows. READ »

Saab workers stage demonstration

National: 27 Feb 09
Saab employees filled a main thoroughfare in the company’s home base of Trollhättan in central Sweden on Thursday night to show their faith in the future of the beleaguered automaker. READ »

Daniel 'wasn't sure of a yes'

National: 24 Feb 09
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria has announced her engagement to Daniel Westling. The pair are to marry in the summer of 2010. READ »

Saab laments 'mixed messages' from Sweden

Business & Money: 23 Feb 09
Tensions were high during a debate between Sweden’s enterprise minister Maud Olofsson and the CEO of Saab Automobile televised on Sveriges Television Sunday night. READ »

Nuder to leave Riksdag

Politics: 23 Feb 09
Pär Nuder, a prominent Social Democrat and former finance minister, has announced he won’t seek re-election to the Riksdag in 2010. READ »

Social Democrat support 'lowest since election': poll

Politics: 21 Feb 09
The opposition Social Democrats are now at their lowest level of voter support since the 2006 general election, according to a new poll. READ »

Swedes key to US-Belarus diplomatic thaw

Politics: 15 Feb 09
Sweden has played a key roll in the release of Aleksander Kozulin, Belarus' most prominent political prisoner. The Swedes have also influenced US foreign policy towards the country. 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 »

'Anti-Semitism on the rise in Sweden'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 09
An ugly wave of anti-Semitism is on the rise in Sweden, and politicians who compare Israel with Nazi Germany or apartheid-era South Africa cannot claim to be free of responsibility, writes David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden. 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 »

Christian Democrats rebound in new poll

Politics: 8 Feb 09
Sweden's Christian Democrats have begun to recover voter support, a new poll shows. READ »

Sweden in nuclear energy reversal

Politics: 5 Feb 09
The four parties of Sweden's centre-right governing Alliance on Thursday announced they had reached an agreement to reverse a decision to phase out the country's 10 nuclear reactors. READ »

Sahlin evokes Obama in cannabis gaffe

Politics: 1 Feb 09
S we can! exclaimed the Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin at a party conference in Västerås on Saturday. She intended to evoke US president Barack Obama, but used the name of a cannabis advocacy group. 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 »

Moderates make gains in new poll

Politics: 26 Dec 08
Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate party strengthened its position in a new voter poll published on Friday. The recent decline in support for the opposition Social Democrats has slowed however. READ »

Green party leaders to resign after election

Politics: 23 Dec 08
The leaders of the Swedish Green party have confirmed that they intend to step down only a year after the next general election, in 2011. READ »

Poll: Gap halves between political blocs

Politics: 14 Dec 08
The gap between the opposition and the Alliance government has almost halved in a year, from 14 to 7.2 percentage points, a new poll shows. READ »

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. READ »

Opposition parties to build coalition

Politics: 7 Dec 08
Sweden’s opposition political parties have announces plans to build a united coalition government following the 2010 Riksdag elections. READ »

Left party makes comeback in the polls

Politics: 7 Dec 08
The Left party is now Sweden's third largest party, after the Social Democrats and the Moderates. A new poll from Demoskop gives the Left party 7.7 percent of the vote. READ »

Opposition urges state car industry takeover

Business & Money: 2 Dec 08
Leading government ministers have angered unions and the opposition by ruling out the possibility of a state takeover of Volvo Cars should owner Ford elect to sell its Swedish subsidiary. READ »

More Swedes favourable toward the euro: poll

Politics: 24 Nov 08
Support for the euro in Sweden is increasing, although a majority of Swedes would still vote to retain the krona if a referendum on the matter were held today, according to a new poll. READ »

Poll: Social Democrats at lowest level since election

Politics: 22 Nov 08
The Social Democrats continue to lose voter support, a new opinion poll from Novus has shown. Support for the party has declined by 3.6 percentage points in a month to 37.2 percent. READ »

Sahlin sets Christmas cooperation deadline

Politics: 19 Nov 08
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has said a decision will be reached by Christmas as to whether the main parties of the opposition will run for election in 2010 on a joint electoral platform. READ »

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. READ »

Poll: Greens overtake Alliance parties

Politics: 16 Nov 08
The governing Alliance parties continue to close the gap on the opposition, a new voter poll from Sifo shows. Meanwhile the Green party has overtaken both the Liberal (Folk) party and the Centre party. READ »

Voters in show of faith for Reinfeldt

Politics: 15 Nov 08
Voter confidence for Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is on the increase, a new Sifo poll has indicated. 55 percent of the electorate expressed a preference for Reinfeldt while only 33 percent preferred Mona Sahlin. READ »

Borg tops in Sweden power rankings

National: 14 Nov 08
Finance minister Anders Borg has surpassed prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as Sweden’s most influential powerbroker, according to a new ranking. READ »

Sweden welcomes Obama

Politics: 5 Nov 08
Swedish politicians welcomed the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States on Wednesday morning, following the Democratic candidate’s defeat of rival John McCain. READ »

Sahlin retains hope for Ohly cooperation

Politics: 1 Nov 08
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin is hopeful that a tripartite coalition with the Green party and the Left party remains possible. The Left party leader Lars Ohly has declared meanwhile that talks are in deadlock. READ »

Steep slide in support for Social Democrats

Politics: 31 Oct 08
Support for the Social Democrats fell dramatically during November, down 6.2 percent in the wake of the financial crisis and Mona Sahlin’s mixed message about the make-up of a governing coalition led by her party. READ »

Poll: Finance crisis boosts Moderates

Politics: 18 Oct 08
Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate party has gained voter support during the financial crisis, a new poll indicates. The Moderates now have the support of 24 percent of voters, a 2.4 point climb. READ »

Reinfeldt and Sahlin spar in debate

Politics: 15 Oct 08
Questions Sweden's future government as well as the current economic crisis occupied much of a televised debate between prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Social Democratic party leader Mona Sahlin on Tuesday night. READ »

Economy and the Left dominate party debate

Politics: 13 Oct 08
Following a week of downbeat news about the economy and speculation about the Left Party's role in a future Social Democratic-led government, leaders of Sweden's seven major political parties squared off in a televised debate on Sunday night. READ »

Poll: Swedes back government handling of crisis

Politics: 12 Oct 08
Swedish voters have given a resounding expression of support for the government and the Riksbank for their handling of the financial crisis so far, a new poll shows. READ »

Sahlin says 'door open' to Left Party

Politics: 10 Oct 08
Responding to a storm of criticism, Social Democratic party leader Mona Sahlin backtracked on Friday, saying she would no longer rule out including the Left Party in an eventual governing coalition. READ »

Outcry after Sahlin's Left Party snub

Politics: 9 Oct 08
Mona Sahlin has come in for withering criticism from both labour groups and members of her own Social Democratic Party following a decision to embrace the Greens at the expense of further cooperation with Sweden’s Left Party. READ »