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Bildt bites back over 'lies' in Bosnia row

Politics: 8 Apr 12
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt fumed on Saturday over what he described as the 'lies' spread by a French journalist who criticized his involvement in a war memorial ceremony in Sarajevo. READ »

Angry journos blast Bildt over Bosnia role

Politics: 7 Apr 12
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt got a frosty reception from a pair of foreign journalists in Sarajevo as he attended a commemoration ceremony to mark the outbreak of the Bosnian war 20 years ago. READ »

Unknown Swedish prisoner may provide clues to Wallenberg mystery

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Mar 12
A so far unidentified Swedish prisoner in Soviet captivity in the 1950s may provide historians with more clues as to the fate of missing WWII diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, argues historian Susanne Berger. READ »

Bildt wants Sweden to be 'world power': WikiLeaks

Politics: 27 Feb 12
Foreign minister Carl Bildt believes Sweden should be a “world power” and once called Russian prime minister Vladmir Putin a “chetnik”, according to internal emails from a US security firm released by WikiLeaks on Monday. READ »

Customs 'not focused' on weapons smuggling

National: 5 Jan 12
The Öresund bridge has long been known to be an important route for weapons smugglers to get their wares into Sweden. Despite this, only seven illegal weapons were seized there over the course of 2011. READ »

'Lundin may have led Bildt to the heart of darkness'

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 11
Swedish investigative journalist Leo Lagercrantz takes a closer look at the Lundin Group and Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt's involvement with it after two Swedish journalists were found guilty of terror crimes in Ethiopia while reportedly investigating the company. READ »

Shopping for Christmas food in Stockholm

Lifestyle: 1 Dec 11
As the Christmas season approaches in Stockholm, it is very likely that festive food is uppermost in your mind. Luckily, contributor Gwen Ramsey has put together a list of great options for filling your holiday hamper. READ »

Bildt: Sweden backs Balkans' EU push

Politics: 10 Nov 11
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt declared on Wednesday that his country supports the EU aspirations of the nations in the Western Balkans, but warned that the process of reform must be maintained. READ »

Obama picks foreign policy expert to be US ambassador to Sweden

Politics: 9 Sep 11
US president Barack Obama has nominated Washington DC-based lawyer and foreign policy expert Mark Brzezinski to be the next US ambassador to Sweden. READ »

Bildt praises Serbia after Hadzic arrest

Politics: 20 Jul 11
Sweden's foreign minister and former mediator in the Balkan conflict, Carl Bildt has congratulated Serbia for the arrest of suspected war criminal Goran Hadzic, saying that "justice will pave the way for reconciliation". READ »

Bildt: Mladic arrest 'a good day for Europe'

Politics: 26 May 11
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt on Thursday hailed the arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, calling it the closing of a "dark chapter in European history". READ »

Swedish birds in 'record' non-stop flight to Africa

Science & Technology: 26 May 11
Three Swedish birds have set a new record in long distance flying after travelling 6000 kilometres non-stop from Sweden to West Africa at an average speed of 70 kilometres per hour. READ »

Reinfeldt: EU must open doors to foreign labour - and new members

Politics: 7 Mar 11
The European Union must attract labour from other parts of the world if it is to function in future, according to Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. And Turkey should join the club as soon as it is ready. READ »

Carl Bildt slams EU president over Turkey

Politics: 16 Nov 10
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt roundly criticised European Union President Herman Van Rompuy on Tuesday for omitting to name Turkey in discussions over EU enlargement. READ »

Sweden's first war crimes trial underway

National: 13 Oct 10
The trial of a 43-year-old Swedish citizen charged with torturing prisoners in Bosnia in 1992 started in Stockholm on Wednesday, the first of its kind in Sweden. READ »

Swedish towns strained by asylum seeker spike

National: 6 Oct 10
Swedish municipalities are feeling the squeeze from a large onslaught of asylum seekers, forcing many to live in rented camps and other temporary accommodations to deal with the acute housing shortage. READ »

Sweden urges EU 'open door' on Balkans

Politics: 2 Jun 10
Sweden has joined forces with Italy to call on the EU to demonstrate that the "door is open" to Balkan country membership of the union as the enthusiasm of some members starts to cool. READ »

Sweden increases refugee forecast again

National: 6 May 10
Sweden's Migration Board has increased its forecast of the number of people expected to seek asylum this year to 31,000. READ »

Swede awarded UN top job in Afghanistan

National: 28 Jan 10
Long-serving Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura has been appointed by UN chief Ban Ki-moon as his new envoy to Afghanistan. READ »

'Auschwitz wasn't on another planet'

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Jan 10
On the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Stockholm-based Israeli journalist David Stavrou reflects on the importance of memory and self-examination, in Sweden and beyond, if we are to avoid recurrences of a catastrophe that was entirely man-made. READ »

Swede offered top UN Afghanistan role

Politics: 9 Jan 10
Veteran Swedish diplomat and former UN envoy to Iraq, Steffan de Mistura, has been offered the job of top UN representative to Afghanistan according to the US pointman for the country. READ »

Reinfeldt pushes for consensus on EU leader

Politics: 19 Nov 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt made a last ditch effort on Wednesday night to get EU leaders to agree on a candidate to become the European Union’s first president. READ »

Helicopter robbery - how it happened

National: 24 Sep 09
The Swedish police have been roundly criticized for their slow response to the audacious helicopter robbery of a cash depot in Västberga south of Stockholm on Wednesday. Here's how it happened. READ »

'Bildt interview supports my immunity deal': Karadzic

Politics: 18 Aug 09
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic asserted on Monday that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has submitted information backing his claims of an immunity deal. READ »

Bildt set to meet Karadzic lawyer

Politics: 15 Jul 09
Sweden’s foreign minister and former Balkans peace envoy Carl Bildt is set to meet the lawyer of Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic next week in Brussels, the lawyer said Tuesday. READ »

Bildt to meet accused war criminal's lawyer

Politics: 3 Jul 09
Foreign minister Carl Bildt has agreed to meet the lawyer representing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to discuss the possibility of testifying at the accused war criminal’s trial. 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 »

Bildt can't help prove Karadzic's alleged immunity deal

Politics: 3 Jun 09
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said he has no information to help prove Radovan Karadzic had cut a deal with Western diplomats to guarantee the Bosnian Serb leader’s immunity. READ »

War crimes suspect claims Bildt helped engineer immunity deal

Politics: 5 May 09
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic is pressing Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt for information the suspected war criminal says will help prove he’d been promised immunity by the United States. READ »

Sweden won't hasten pipeline approval

Politics: 30 Jan 09
Sweden doesn’t want to be rushed into approving a Russian-German natural gas pipeline project under the Baltic Sea before a careful review of environmental concerns, a minister said Friday. READ »

Nobel laureates receive prizes in Stockholm

Society: 10 Dec 08
Princess Madeleine and economics laureate Paul Krugman were among the guests at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm's City Hall on Wednesday evening. READ »

Five charged for heroin smuggling

National: 28 Nov 08
Five men were charged in Malmö on Friday for transporting 19 kilogrammes of heroin, half of which was confiscated in Serbia. READ »

Bildt calls Ahtisaari's 2008 Nobel Peace Prize 'well-deserved'

National: 10 Oct 08
Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt offered his congratulations to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari for being named the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. READ »

Bildt rejects Georgia-Kosovo comparison

Politics: 30 Aug 08
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Friday rejected Russian comparisons between its recognition of two Georgian breakaway provinces from the West's recognition of Kosovo earlier this year. READ »

Bildt praises Serbia over Karadzic arrest

Politics: 22 Jul 08
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt on Tuesday welcomed the news that the Serbian government had arrested wanted war criminal Radovan Karadjic. READ »

Fighter planes to be sent to Afghanistan

National: 15 Mar 08
The Swedish force in Afghanistan is set to be reinforced by 130 troops. The force could stay in the country for up to 15 years. READ »

Bildt: Serbia must be 'moved forward' on Kosovo

Politics: 24 Oct 07
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Wednesday said there was a need to "move Serbia forward" towards reaching "some sort of consensus" on Kosovo. READ »

Macedonia stop Kosovo immigrants on Swedish passports

Society: 9 Oct 07
Macedonian police have prevented five Kosovo Albanians, travelling with several Swedish soldiers serving with NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo (KFOR), from flying from Macedonia to Sweden. READ »

More guns smuggled into Sweden

National: 25 Jul 07
An increasing number of guns are being smuggled into Sweden, police say, with many of them coming from the former Yugoslavia. READ »

Swede convicted of Bosnia torture

National: 18 Dec 06
Swede Jackie Arklöv has been convicted of crimes against international law perpetrated in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993. Arklöv was a mercenary for a Croatian militia during the conflict in the Balkans. READ »

Arklöv on trial for Bosnia torture

National: 10 Nov 06
Swede Jackie Arklöv has gone on trial in Stockholm accused of torturing eleven Bosnian Muslims while fighting as a mercenary for the Bosnian-Croatian army. His lawyer says he'll plead guilty to most charges. READ »

Blidt rejects calls to halt EU expansion

National: 8 Nov 06
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has criticised calls for setting Europe's borders, arguing that shutting Turkey out of the EU will cause instability in Europe. READ »

War crimes suspect lectures future police officers

National: 4 Nov 06
Seven years ago Jackie Arklöv shot two policemen dead. On Friday he will appear in court accused of Balkan war crimes. Now he is lecturing to police students who visit him in prison. READ »

Swedish supermarkets cash in on Ramadan

Business & Money: 17 Oct 06
The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan has boosted sales in Swedish grocery stores, with many chains reporting a surge in demand for their international products. READ »

Carl Bildt: biography

Politics: 6 Oct 06
In picking Carl Bildt to be foreign minister in his newly-elected government, Swedish premier Fredrik Reinfeldt chose a man who not only has major diplomatic experience in Europe but has also done Reinfeldt's own job. READ »

Carl Bildt Sweden's new Foreign Minister

Politics: 6 Oct 06
Former prime minister Carl Bildt has been named Foreign Minister in the new government presented by Fredrik Reinfeldt. Ten of the 21 new ministers are women, and nine ministers are Moderates. READ »

Sweden's population surges

Society: 11 May 06
Sweden's population is growing faster than at any time during the last twelve years, according to figures released on Thursday. READ »

Bird flu reaches the Baltic

Science & Technology: 15 Feb 06
Sweden introduces emergency measures as it is confirmed that two dead swans found in the Baltic Sea 100km from the southern tip of Sweden were carrying the deadly H5N1 virus. All Swedish poultry must be taken indoors, says the Board of Agriculture. READ »

Three gun crimes a day in Sweden

National: 6 Sep 05
Firearms are used in murders, attempted murders or robberies three times a day - but where a few years ago police were dealing with pistols, now it's all automatic weapons and hand grenades. READ »

Three dead as Swedish bus crashes in Germany

Smörgåsbord: 31 Aug 05
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Swedish prisoners increasingly mobile

National: 16 Apr 04
Banged up in a Swedish prison? Don't let that stop you from organising international drug crimes - get a mobile phone. READ »

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