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Recruitment woes plague Swedish military

Politics: 17 Jan 11
Recruiting soldiers to the Swedish Armed Forces following the abolishment of mandatory conscription has proven harder than expected, with the military meeting less than half of its recruitment goal for 2010. READ »

Swedish officers fined for flying painted penis

Society: 13 Sep 10
Two Swedish non-commissioned officers have been docked pay for painting a flying penis on a white flag adorning their boat during a naval exercise in the Stockholm archipelago. READ »

Swede jailed for desertion despite end of conscription

Society: 7 Sep 10
A 20-year-old Swedish conscript has been convicted for desertion, even though compulsory military service ended in Sweden three months ago. READ »

Swedish soldiers will be forced to serve abroad

Society: 13 Jul 10
All Swedish soldiers will in future be liable to be sent abroad on missions against their will. Any soldiers who refuse could lose their jobs, according to SVT. READ »

Military service comes to an end in Sweden

National: 1 Jul 10
Compulsory military service officially came to end in Sweden on Thursday after 109 years, setting the non-aligned nation on the path to developing a fully professional army. READ »

Little interest in military service - warning

National: 9 Jun 10
A lack of volunteers could lead to severe manpower shortages in Sweden's armed services, an organization representing conscripts has warned. READ »

Government opposes plan to scale down domestic defence

National: 7 Mar 10
A squabble evidently is in the making between the government and Swedish Armed Forces, that is calling for reduced spending on home defence. READ »

Grenades found at Royal Palace in Stockholm

National: 22 Feb 10
A routine inspection of the Royal Palace of Stockholm in early February uncovered two decorative grenades. The explosive devices could have been lying gathering dust for over four decades, according to a military report. READ »

Swedish officers reported for 'force feeding' conscripts

National: 16 Feb 10
A lieutenant and a captain at the Air Combat Training School in Uppsala have been reported to military authorities for ordering young conscripts to eat food in humiliating circumstances. READ »

Female Swedish soldiers renew calls for fireproof undies

Society: 19 Nov 09
Women in the Swedish army are demanding the provision of military underwear designed for female forms after 30 years of having to slip into something less comfortable. READ »

Swedish soldiers forced to train in soleless boots

Society: 26 Oct 09
Shortages in standard issue military clothing have forced Swedish conscripts to wash their uniforms at home and train in boots without soles. READ »

Officer warned for forcing conscripts to drop their pants

Society: 19 Oct 09
Swedish military commanders have come under fire for punishing a group of conscripts by forcing them to pull down their pants and crawl in the grass. READ »

One-fifth of Swedish military conscripts 'fear for their lives'

National: 1 Oct 09
One in five Swedish conscripts feared for their life while they were carrying out their compulsory military duty, a new study shows. READ »

'Flammable' bras hold back Swedish female conscripts

Society: 22 Sep 09
The bras issued to women who join the Swedish military catch fire easily and are prone to coming undone, making them inappropriate for the battlefield, claims a conscripts’ rights group. READ »

Swedish military ready to battle swine flu

Science & Technology: 5 Sep 09
Sweden’s military is well-equipped to defend itself against an outbreak of the A/H1N1 flu virus, and to assist in swine flu vaccination programmes run by public health authorities. READ »

Military conscription phase out under fire

National: 16 Aug 09
Plans to abolish conscription in Sweden and introduce a professional army have come under criticism from the Social Democrats and the Conscription Council (Värnpliktsrådet). 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 »

'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 »

Most Swedes support mandatory military service: poll

Politics: 23 Mar 09
Amid concerns about moving to an all-volunteer military, a new poll shows the majority of Swedes want to retain the country’s current system of mandatory military service. READ »

Sweden sets sights on military reforms

Politics: 19 Mar 09
Defence minister Sten Tolgfors on Thursday presented a government bill designed to shape the future look of Sweden’s defence forces. READ »

Eating fish makes teenage boys smarter: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 9 Mar 09
Teenage boys who eat fish at least once a week score higher on intelligence tests, according to a Swedish study. READ »

Overweight people die younger: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 25 Feb 09
Researchers in Sweden have found that people who are overweight from a young age run a much increased risk of dying prematurely. READ »

'End peacetime conscription': government commission

Politics: 29 Oct 08
A government commission has proposed that Sweden abandon peacetime military conscription. READ »

Court affirms mass murderer's life sentence

National: 27 Oct 08
An appeal by convicted mass murderer Mattias Flink to have his life sentence reduced was denied on Monday by the Göta Court of Appeal. READ »

'Pretend order' led to conscript's death

National: 22 Aug 08
A platoon commander who gave the order that led to a Swedish conscript being killed in a military exercise in the Stockholm archipelago in May has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Armed Forces. READ »

'Sweden needs more military conscripts'

National: 11 Aug 08
The Social Democrats have called for Sweden to treble the number of young people called up for military service. READ »

Gang forces Swedish conscript to strip in public

National: 24 Jul 08
A group of men threatened a Swedish conscript in downtown Enköping on Wednesday night before making off with the man's clothes. READ »

Rape suspect soldier sacked

National: 18 Jun 08
Sweden's National Service Administration has dismissed a conscript suspected of raping his female colleague at a military base in Skövde, central Sweden. READ »

Commission calls for sweeping defence cuts

National: 13 Jun 08
The government’s commission on defence has recommended drastic cuts to Sweden’s Armed Forces in a report submitted to the government on Friday. READ »

Disgruntled conscript shoots himself in the foot

National: 29 May 08
A frustrated Swedish conscript shot himself in the foot with his service weapon in order to get out of completing his military duty. READ »

Swedish soldier dies in shooting accident

National: 20 May 08
A Swedish conscript has died after being shot in a military exercise in the Stockholm archipelago on Tuesday afternoon. READ »

Commander tried to suppress film of naked shooting

National: 12 May 08
The highest officer in a Swedish amphibious military unit is accused of trying to cover up an incident in which new conscripts fired shoulder mounted artillery cannons while in the nude. READ »

Gender-neutral military conscription proposed

Politics: 25 Feb 08
The outgoing head of the National Service Administration (Pliktverket) has proposed making military conscription gender-neutral. READ »

Male obesity to weigh heavy on healthcare system

Science & Technology: 23 Jan 08
Young Swedish men have become so overweight that they may soon pose problems for the healthcare system, new research has shown. READ »

Military favours ending conscription

Society: 21 Dec 07
The Swedish military has said it supports the abolishment of today's system of conscription. READ »

Sweden makes moves to scrap conscription

National: 6 Dec 07
Compulsory military service will soon be a thing of the past, as Defence Minister Sten Tolgfors appoints a committee to bury conscription. READ »

Conscript dies after accidental shooting

National: 5 Dec 07
A Swedish army conscript has died after being accidentally shot in the back on Wednesday afternoon. READ »

'Stop prosecutions for refusing military service'

Politics: 4 Nov 07
People who refuse to cooperate with Sweden's army conscription system should no longer be criminalized, politicians say. READ »

'Scrap conscription' say Swedes

National: 21 Oct 07
A majority of Swedes wish to abolish or fundamentally reform the country's system of conscription, a new poll shows. READ »

Government plans to scrap conscription

Politics: 30 Aug 07
The government is reportedly hatching plans to replace Sweden's 200-year-old conscription army with a professional force. READ »

Greens call for professional army

Politics: 24 Aug 07
The Green Party has called for Sweden to replace its conscript army with a professional force. READ »

Wanted: Royal Guards for palace duty

National: 11 Aug 07
Facing a critical shortage of conscripts, Sweden's military has taken the unusual step of publishing a job advertisement for one of the most prestigious duties in the kingdom: guarding the Royal Palace in Stockholm. READ »

Conscripts protest in bid to join army

National: 3 Aug 07
Would-be conscripts to the Swedish army have inundated the National Service Administration with protests after they were told that no regiment could take them. Now, some are being allowed in. READ »

Swedish army trains right-wing extremists

National: 7 Jun 07
A number of conscripts in the Swedish army are known to have Nazi sympathies, according to a new report. READ »

Car crushed by runaway tank

National: 30 May 07
A driver had a narrow escape on Wednesday after his car was run over by a tank that had lost control. The tank had lost one of its caterpillar tracks after hitting a tree. READ »

Peacetime conscription unnecessary - defence minister

National: 15 May 07
Defence Minister Mikael Odenberg has come down in favour of replacing Sweden's current system of military service with legislation that would enable wartime conscription. And it should apply to women too, he said. READ »

'Don't mention the E-word'

Analysis & Opinion: 4 May 07
Europe is still an infected issue in Swedish politics - particularly on the left. The anti-European stance of the Left and Green parties poses a problem for Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin, argues Jonas Morian of the Social Democratic Press Association. READ »

800 Swedish conscripts turned away

National: 14 Apr 07
A lack of money and commanding officers means that around 800 Swedish conscripts will be prevented from entering service next January. READ »

Army major dies after tank overturns

National: 24 Mar 07
An army officer has died after a tank overturned in a ditch full of water during exercises in southern Sweden. Major Tomas Dahlberg was commanding his tank when it turned over at around 4am on Saturday. READ »

Günter Grass to keep Nobel Prize

National: 15 Aug 06
The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm has rejected calls to revoke Günter Grass' literature prize, following his admission that he served in Germany's Waffen SS force during the World War II. READ »

Conscript badly burned during exercise

National: 12 Aug 06
A conscript in the Swedish army sustained serious burns during an exercise in northern Sweden on Friday night. READ »

Naked soldiers film condemned

National: 31 May 06
A film showing naked Swedish soldiers firing practice ammunition has been slammed by defence minister Leni Björklund. This has no place in the Swedish military, she said. READ »

Ex-Liberian leader "can't come to Swedish jail"

Society: 13 Apr 06
Sweden has that a legal technicality prevents it from accepting Charles Taylor, former Liberian president, in its prisons if he is convicted of crimes against humanity. READ »

Sweden could jail former Liberian president

National: 6 Apr 06
The United Nations has asked Sweden among other countries to consider accepting Liberia's ex-president Charles Taylor as a prisoner if he is convicted of crimes against humanity, a Swedish official has confirmed. READ »

Swedish soldiers "train with hangovers"

National: 16 Feb 06
One in three conscripts in the Swedish army admits to turning up to exercises with a hangover, a survey shows. Every fifth soldier says he believes his peers are taking illegal drugs. READ »

Tall men better educated - Swedish study

Society: 1 Feb 06
Tall men have more education than short men, according to a survey of a million men. Discrimination, the report's author tells The Local. READ »

Size matters: Swedes grow taller and wider

Society: 28 Jul 05
The average Swedish woman is two centimetres taller and three kilos heavier than 30 years ago. And men are moving in the same direction, a new survey shows. READ »

Why does Sweden need military conscription?

: 6 Apr 05
My 19 year old son, who is a Swedish citizen, will soon be starting his period of conscription. He seems perfectly happy about it - but what's the point of a country like Sweden having forced military service? Answers please. READ »

Conscripts ?should be made to serve abroad?

National: 4 Apr 05
Serving in missions abroad should be compulsory for all conscripts, says the head of Sweden’s armed forces, Håkan Syrén. But not everyone likes the idea. READ »

Swedish soldiers in major NATO exercise

National: 5 Mar 05
Nord-Trøndelag in Norway is turned into an area rife with "minority clashes and threats of ethnic cleansing" for an international military training session. 700 Swedish soldiers are taking part - but not in the sensitive stuff. READ »

Persson finally pushes Swedish defence cuts through

Politics: 16 Dec 04
Massive cuts in the Swedish armed forces have been approved by the Riksdag. But Prime Minister Göran Persson's concessions to the Left Party have met with a barrage of criticism. READ »

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