February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Civil_servant":
Politics: 10 Feb 12
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt harbours hope that the two Swedish reporters jailed for terror crimes in Ethiopia will be pardoned by the regime.
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Society: 10 Jan 12
A high-ranking civil servant in Sweden's defence ministry has been sacked after it was revealed he was involved in running several Thai massage parlours on the side.
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Society: 6 Jan 12
When one of Stockholm's top civil servants was recently acquitted of invoice fraud, one of the lay judges fell asleep twice during the legal proceedings, causing the prosecutor to question the verdict.
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National: 4 Nov 11
In a case that has caused huge reactions across Sweden, the woman who reported her sister and sister's husband to social services for allegedly sexually abusing their daughters has told her version of events.
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National: 2 Nov 11
One call to social services was enough to land a Swedish couple behind bars and have their kids taken away for more than two months after an innocent situation was misinterpreted as sexual abuse.
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Business & Money: 10 Oct 11
A leading expert has refuted claims that corruption is becoming more widespread in Sweden, arguing there is no evidence to back up the claims.
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Business & Money: 25 Sep 11
Seven senior civl servants who left their positions prematurely now continue to pocket monthly salaries of between 65,000 and 123,000 kronor ($9,500-18,000), despite having unclear or non-existent tasks, according to reports in the Swedish media.
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Politics: 22 Sep 11
Sweden's top legal official has given backing to the decision to reassign the integration ministry civil servant who compared Islam to totalitarian ideologies.
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National: 14 Sep 11
Sweden's much touted integration policy reform has failed to ensure that refugees start the process of finding work before receiving welfare benefits from local authorities, a new study has shown.
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Lifestyle: 2 Sep 11
Behind the Stockholm council's draconian "zero tolerance" policy on graffiti is hidden a rich but underground Swedish graffiti culture, inspired by the scene in New York City, contributor Katherine Dunn discovers.
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Science & Technology: 20 Jun 11
Sweden's social services have been given the green light to use information found on Facebook and other social media sites to verify whether or not Swedes are being truthful on their applications for welfare benefits.
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Politics: 26 Dec 10
Two offices that often criticise Swedish agencies for long wait times have their own problems with efficiency.
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Politics: 6 Dec 10
Morgan Johansson, the Social Democrat chair of the parliamentary justice committee, has demanded clarification on alleged informal intelligence contacts between the Swedish government and the US authorities.
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National: 26 Nov 10
A 36-year-old man was sentenced to four months in prison for threatening a prosecutor who had charged his son for involvement in selling a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex.
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National: 23 Nov 10
Airline passengers across Sweden risk encountering flight delays of up to two hours on Tuesday due to a shortage of air traffic controllers at Stockholm's Arlanda airport.
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Politics: 9 Nov 10
The Swedish government plans to invest 10 million kronor ($1.49 million) to enable state agencies to develop clearer ethical guidelines for staff working overseas in order to curb the buying of sexual services and improper sexual relations.
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National: 11 Oct 10
A man and woman have been arrested for making threats in connection with a pimping trial underway in Malmö involving a 14-year-old girl.
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Politics: 19 Aug 10
A civil servant working under Integration Minister Nyamko Sabuni will be assigned new duties after writing a blog saying that there are no good adherents of Islam and comparing the religion to Communism or Nazism.
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National: 9 Dec 09
Swedish police have arrested 40 people in a nationwide doping raid, according to a statement.
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National: 17 Nov 09
A manager within Gothenburg social services has been convicted for refusing to allow a 24-year-old drug addict into institutional care. The addict later died from an overdose.
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Politics: 10 Nov 09
Top level civil servants in Laholm in south-western Sweden have received a selection of different coloured hats worth 18,000 kronor ($2,600) in a bid to help the bearers think innovative thoughts.
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National: 8 Nov 09
A senior administrative officer at the Government Offices has been detained for serious drugs offences. The man was remanded into custody on Friday together with two other men.
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Politics: 7 Nov 09
Uppsala County Council has come under criticism after politicians and leading civil servants were offered the chance to have the swine flu vaccine, regardless of whether they belong to a high-risk group.
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National: 13 Oct 09
Sweden continues to isolate asylum seekers awaiting deportation in remand centres, despite continued criticism from torture committees at the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
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Society: 4 Jun 09
The Expressen newspaper has sacked its US correspondent following revelations that he had close contact with the former leader of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in Sweden, Thomas Möller.
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National: 18 Apr 09
Sweden will not send any ministerial officials to the UN conference on racism in Geneva on Monday, said Swedish Integration Minister Nyamko Sabuni.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Apr 09
In a time of severe economic crisis, the European Union is fortunate to have Sweden taking up the presidential reins this summer, British Ambassador to Sweden Andrew Mitchell tells The Local's James Savage.
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Politics: 31 Mar 09
Sweden’s foreign ministry and the US State Department confirmed on Monday that a Swedish envoy has met with two American journalists being held in North Korea.
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Lifestyle: 11 Mar 09
More than 45 years after losing contact, a British couple are hoping the Swedish public can help them learn the fate of a long-lost daredevil sweetheart.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Feb 09
Olle Wästberg, Director General of the Swedish Institute reveals some insights garnered from his inside track in the early 1990s to the bone-shaking Swedish banking crisis and its eventual resolution.
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Science & Technology: 5 Feb 09
Employees in Sweden’s government offices would be prohibited from visiting websites dealing with war, weapons, and terror, according to a new proposal.
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Society: 4 Feb 09
Top managers from the Swedish business world earn 50 times as much as a common labourer, according to a new study carried out by one of the country’s largest labour organizations.
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Business & Money: 5 Jan 09
Several civil servants have called for Sweden to take a more compassionate approach to people in debt.
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Society: 3 Dec 08
Malmö's council-owned housing company MKB has admitted to using "classic" TV tricks in its bid to evict a 69-year-old woman with multiple illnesses.
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Society: 6 Nov 08
A top level civil servant at the Finnish equality ministry has resigned after groping several women's breasts at a reception at the Swedish embassy in Helsinki.
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Politics: 22 Sep 08
The political opposition took aim at the Swedish government’s new budget proposal on Monday, while the document received mix reviews from labour and other organizations.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jul 08
Sweden has taken in thousands of asylum seekers in recent year. But not all have had their applications accepted. Faisal Enayat Khan describes his encounters with just a handful of Sweden's estimated 15,000 undocumented migrants.
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Politics: 22 Apr 08
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's former closest aide has refused to show up for a hearing of the parliament's constitutional committee.
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National: 4 Apr 08
Some cream cakes were simply too much for a few of the employees from the Essunga local council.
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National: 20 Mar 08
An employee from Sweden’s Prison and Probation Service showed up to deportation proceedings under the influence of alcohol on several occasions.
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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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National: 8 Mar 08
A senior civil servant has been arrested by police with a Russian prostitute in a Stockholm hotel.
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Politics: 28 Feb 08
Mats Odell admits the government has failed in its commitment to adopt an open appointment process when recruiting top-level civil servants.
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National: 25 Feb 08
Karlskrona's social services department has wiped its hands of responsibility for the events that led to the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Rödeby last year.
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Analysis & Opinion: 8 Feb 08
Sweden Says is a new series in which we look at what the Swedish papers are saying about the major issues making the news in Sweden. This week, David Landes surveys reactions to proposed new reforms in the areas of immigration and education.
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Politics: 2 Jan 08
Alcohol is a part of every day life for many Swedish politicians, causing some members of parliament to suggest better guidance as to when drinking on the job is appropriate.
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National: 20 Dec 07
Sweden’s royal family is to get significantly more money from the state next year, with its grant, known as the Appanage, rising by 12 million kronor.
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Politics: 4 Sep 07
As Swedish civil servants warn of a growing security threat, Integration Minister Nyamko Sabuni accentuates the positives in the ongoing Muhammad cartoon controversy.
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Lifestyle: 21 Jun 07
Tipping Point: Kathleen Harman experienced her first Swedish Midsummer not by a Swedish lake, but in an English back garden. She has a recommendation for a more sobre way to spend the big day.
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National: 15 Jun 07
Sweden's government failed to realize that thousands of Swedes were caught up in the 2004 Asian tsunami until it received a tearful call from its ambassador in Bangkok, more than 24 hours after the event.
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National: 9 Jun 07
Back-up tapes investigated by a Commission into the Swedish government's handling of the tsunami crisis once again call into question the story given by the most senior aide to the then Prime Minister Göran Persson.
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Politics: 3 Jun 07
Top civil servants will face stern criticism for giving incorrect answers to the parliamentary inquiry over Sweden's handling of the 2004 tsunami catastrophe, according to reports.
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Politics: 11 Apr 07
Per Jodenius and Niki Westerberg should be given suspended sentences, according to the public prosecutor. Speaking at the end of a two day-trial for the Liberal Party spying scandal, the prosecutor called for four further defendants to be fined.
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Politics: 3 Apr 07
The government held a press conference on Tuesday to announce its agreement on a framework for the abolition of property tax.
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Society: 15 Mar 07
Swedish blue collar trade unions are losing members like never before. 2006 was the first year in which all member unions in the LO confederation experienced a net loss of members.
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Politics: 23 Feb 07
Ministers have ordered top civil servants from three government departments to investigate the problem that immigrants to Sweden are being barred from getting Swedish ID cards.
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Politics: 31 Jan 07
Iraq's ambassador to Sweden has admitted that his embassy has issued thousands of passports based on false documentation.
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Politics: 29 Jan 07
New information has emerged that contradicts Lars Danielsson's account of the government's handling of the tsunami crisis.
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Politics: 24 Jan 07
Unemployed people who go into work should get a bonus of 1,500 kronor a month, a new report has proposed. The idea is to get more Swedes to choose work over benefit dependency.
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Politics: 19 Jan 07
Mona Sahlin left her trade union after the 1995 scandal that prevented her from becoming party leader. But despite returning to politics in 1998 she did not rejoin the union until last month.
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National: 17 Jan 07
A Malmö policeman was removed from the force after hateful emails he wrote were made public. Now he wants compensation for wrongful dismissal - and his old job back.
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Politics: 14 Jan 07
Someone made sure that emails sent from Government Offices in the aftermath of the tsunami were not revealed to the catastrophe committee. A further inquiry hopes to establish who and why.
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Politics: 8 Dec 06
Foreign minister Carl Bildt has decided that controversial former State Secretary Lars Danielsson is to be attributed the rank of ambassador. "Bildt seems schizophrenic," says civil servant.
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Politics: 29 Nov 06
Göran Persson's controversial former foreign policy advisor, Lars Danielsson, is receiving no wage from the foreign ministry and has been given no work to do. Unions say Danielsson's talents are being wasted.
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Society: 16 Nov 06
Sverker Åström, a 90-year old former senior diplomat, has quit a programme about gay life, claiming that it was "vulgar and tasteless". We're sorry he's leaving, says SVT.
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Politics: 15 Nov 06
Tapes containing emails from government offices at the time of the tsunami catastrophe have mysteriously disappeared, it has been reported. Of a supposed 154 tapes only 119 can be found.
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National: 11 Nov 06
Lars Danielsson, former aide to Göran Persson, will not be given a job as an ambassador, foreign minister Carl Bildt has said.
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Business & Money: 31 Oct 06
Telia Sonera's CEO Anders Igel and the company's former Sweden boss Marie Ehrling have been found not guilty of bribery after inviting customers to a performance of Mamma Mia in Stockholm.
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Society: 27 Oct 06
An appeal court judge in Malmö gets his job back after it is decided that his activities in a brothel did not constitute sex.
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National: 23 Oct 06
A leading civil servant tried to have security tapes containing emails relating to the tsunami catastrophe destroyed, it has been reported. But administrators saved copies of the deleted emails.
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National: 6 Oct 06
Just after 12 pm on Friday in the Council Room at Stockholm's Royal Palace the Persson era formally ended and the Reinfeldt era began. The new ministers were welcomed with a handshake and a lunch.
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Business & Money: 28 Aug 06
SAS AB has said the Swedish government has chosen it to supply flight services for government employees on 5 domestic routes.
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Politics: 11 Aug 06
Swedish economic growth results were leaked to officials in the Ministry of Finance several days in advance. Now opposition politicians suspect that the secret figures were mentioned by prime minister Göran Persson in a speech.
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National: 2 Jun 06
SEE ALSO: Raid on The Pirate Bay hits other sites
Reports that the US government was behind the action against the Sweden-based file sharing site have resulted in the Swedish government being reported to the country's Constitutional Committee.
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Politics: 18 May 06
Two Liberal politicians spread rumours on the Internet that Lars Danielsson had lied about his actions on the day of the tsunami in order to cover up an affair. This is incredibly serious, says Marita Ulvskog.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 06
Sweden’s reputation as the first country of filth is one of those lingering stereotypes. Like high taxes. But whilst there’s no denying the latter, what truth really is there in the triple X typecast? The Local’s Christine Demsteader investigates.
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Politics: 12 May 06
Lars Danielsson, Göran Persson's closest advisor, has insisted he was at Swedish government HQ on the day the tsunami struck South Asia. His evidence comes in interviews released on Friday.
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Politics: 25 Apr 06
People who threaten politicians should face tougher penalties, a Swedish government inquiry has said.
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National: 24 Apr 06
During 2005 Sweden's members of parliament and civil servants in parliament received 23 million emails classified as spam or junk. And you thought you got a lot.
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Politics: 21 Apr 06
Swedish prime minister Göran Persson has been paying 7,000 kronor a month less than he should have been for his private apartment in his official residence, following a valuation error.
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National: 20 Apr 06
A senior representative of Hamas is to visit Malmö in May, the association which invited him has confirmed.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Mar 06
In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami tragedy, Swedes on the ground in Thailand were vocal in their criticism of the lack of assistance from the Swedish government. Now a parliamentary committee has delivered its verdict.
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Politics: 30 Mar 06
ANALYSIS: WHO DIDN'T DO WHAT
The inquiry by the parliamentary constitution committee into the Swedish government's response to the tsunami disaster closed on Thursday with damning criticism of six ministers, including prime minister Göran Persson.
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Politics: 27 Mar 06
President of the UN General Assembly Jan Eliasson has been named as Sweden's new foreign minister. The announcement was made by Göran Persson at a press conference at Rosenbad on Monday morning.
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National: 24 Mar 06
Neither the Foreign Office (UD) nor the security police (Säpo) broke censorship laws when a website was shut down for publishing drawings of the prophet Muhammad, says the Chancellor of Justice.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Mar 06
After a year of unrelenting criticism over her handling of the tsunami disaster and latterly of the Muhammad cartoons, Persson had little choice but to accept Laila Freivalds' resignation.
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Smörgåsbord: 20 Mar 06
Despite her claim to the contrary, foreign minister Laila Freivalds knew her department was to contact the company which closed down the web site of the Sweden Democrats. She should resign, say opposition leaders.
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Politics: 15 Mar 06
Sweden is a 'one party state' in which the civil service and government agencies have been politicised by the Social Democrats, the opposition has said. A new transparent system is needed, they say.
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Politics: 9 Mar 06
Lars Danielsson, Göran Persson's closest advisor, faces an investigation by Sweden's justice ombudsman. Nils-Olof Berggren will decide whether Danielsson lied to two inquiries over his actions following the 2004 Asian tsunami.
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Politics: 14 Feb 06
See also: Tsunami: health minister blames foreign ministry
Minister for International Development Carin Jämtin tells the inquiry into the Swedish government's response to the tsunami disaster that she was most concerned with sending aid to Sri Lanka - and that she did not want to disturb foreign minister Laila Freivalds.
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Society: 20 Dec 05
Staff at the Swedish Board of Migration gathered in the office kitchen for a champagne celebration after an asylum-seeking family was deported back to Russia.
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Politics: 17 Dec 05
On Saturday a voter poll put the government ahead. On Sunday a new poll, conducted after the damning tsunami report, showed an even bigger lead for the opposition parties.
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National: 14 Dec 05
The most senior civil servant in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Hans Dahlgren, stopped an emergency relief effort from the Swedish Rescue Services Agency on the first day of the tsunami catastrophe, it was revealed on Wednesday. A misunderstanding, he says.
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Politics: 5 Dec 05
Senior civil servants' actions following the tsunami disaster could have amounted to misconduct. Leading Moderate Mikael Odenberg has asked the Prosector General to investigate.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Dec 05
What Sweden needed after the tsunami was leaders who would bang heads together and deliver a wake-up call. But they were caught sleeping, and should pay the price.
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Politics: 2 Dec 05
Swedish government slammed in tsunami report
Göran Persson apologises for his government's failure to respond to last year’s tsunami disaster, in which over 500 Swedes died. But despite "the strongest criticism of a government in modern times", he insists that nobody will be fired.
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Society: 24 Oct 05
Criticising the boss is not an option for many Swedish workers, who are afraid that they'll get fired for speaking up. They want unions to have more power, according to a union-commissioned survey.
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Politics: 8 Oct 05
The joint leader of the Sweden's Green party personally tried to influence a police chief to delay the deportation of a family in Gävle until a new law comes into effect in November.
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Society: 27 Sep 05
A prosecutor demands prison for a policeman who sent what he thought was a private email to Malmö council leader Ilmar Reepalu (pictured). He referred to "criminals called Mohammed from Rosengård" - and the email was made public.
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Politics: 29 Jul 05
It may have seemed like a good idea at the time: plug the economic hole left by regional defence cuts by moving government agencies from Stockholm to the areas worst-affected. Unfortunately, many of the 3,000 staff due to be relocated would rather stay in the capital.
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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 »
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 »
"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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