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Sweden 'an important partner': US ambassador

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Feb 12
Recently installed US ambassador to Sweden Mark Brzezinski speaks to The Local's David Landes about US-Swedish relations and taking Swedish lessons from his two-and-half year old daughter. READ »

Justice minister calls for tighter bribery laws

Business & Money: 26 Jan 12
In the wake of several high profile cases at home and abroad, Swedish justice minister Beatrice Ask has called for stricter laws governing bribery and corruption. READ »

'Gomorrah' author wins 2011 Olof Palme Prize

Society: 23 Jan 12
Roberto Saviano, author of Italian mafia exposé 'Gomorrah', and Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho were named the 2011 recipients of the Olof Palme Memorial Prize in Stockholm on Monday. READ »

Swedish tennis talent hit by corruption scandal

Sport: 24 Dec 11
Swedish teenager Lucas Renard, a rising young tennis talent, has been sanctioned by international tennis's anti-corruption unit for allegedly trying to buy his way back into a tournament. READ »

Håkan Juholt subject to criminal investigation

Politics: 10 Oct 11
Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt is to be probed on suspicion of fraud in connection with revelations that he has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, the prosecutor has announced. READ »

Swedish corruption rise 'a myth': expert

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. READ »

Swedes' confidence in Juholt plummets

Politics: 9 Oct 11
Swedes' confidence in Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt has plummeted following reports of his faulty rental payments, showed a recent poll, with 52 percent reporting "very little or little confidence" in him. READ »

Prosecutor probes possible Nobel leak

National: 9 Oct 11
Rumors that Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer's name was leaked before the award was announced have caused Sweden's chief anti-corruption prosecutor to look into the case. READ »

Juholt probed over rental payment scandal

Politics: 8 Oct 11
Social democratic leader Håkan Juholt has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, amounting to a total of roughly 160,000 kronor ($23,500). READ »

Saab bribes probe re-opened in South Africa

National: 31 Jul 11
Following Swedish defence group Saab's admission last month that it paid millions in bribes to secure an arms contract in South Africa, police in that country have re-opened a probe into the controversial deal. READ »

Scania CEO reports prosecutor over 'oil-for-food' bribery claims

Business & Money: 27 Jun 11
Scania CEO Leif Östling has reported Sweden's top anti-corruption prosecutor for violating confidentiality rules in connection with his investigation into the Swedish truckmaker's alleged skirting of UN sanctions in Iraq. READ »

BAE behind South Africa payments: Saab

Business & Money: 16 Jun 11
Swedish defense group Saab on Thursday said an internal probe has revealed that BAE Systems secretly paid millions to ensure South Africa purchased Swedish fighter jets. READ »

Yemeni blogger seeks asylum in Sweden

National: 15 Jun 11
A Yemeni blogger who has received death threats for criticising President Ali Abdullah Saleh has applied for asylum in Sweden amid mounting political violence in the country. READ »

Marcus Allbäck named in bribery probe

National: 9 Jun 11
Criminal suspicions have surfaced involving Marcus Allbäck, a former striker for Sweden's national team and current assistant trainer, in connection with the Gothenburg construction corruption scandal. READ »

Bribery scandal rocks Stockholm arena

National: 9 Jun 11
A local politician and a Swedish construction magnate are among six people charged with corruption in conjunction with the building of a new national sporting arena in the Stockholm suburb of Solna. READ »

Malmström touts corruption crackdown

Politics: 6 Jun 11
Sweden's EU commissioner Cecilia Malmström has called for action after it emerged that four out of every five EU citizens consider corruption to be a problem in their country, with costs topping 1,000 billion kronor ($162 billion) per year. READ »

Swedish bosses open to bribes: study

Business & Money: 26 May 11
Every fifth business leader in Sweden could consider paying a bribe to win advantages in business and to retain clients, a new survey shows. READ »

Saab denies wrongdoing in fighter jet deal

National: 21 May 11
Sweden's largest defense contractor Saab has said a probe looking into alleged secret payments to South Africa has turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. READ »

Housing boss guilty in Gothenburg bribe trial

National: 28 Apr 11
A former housing chief was sentenced to 6 months in prison on Thursday for aggravated bribery as the court delivered its verdict in the first trial of the major Gothenburg bribery scandal. READ »

Moderate u-turn on political party donations

Politics: 28 Apr 11
In a reversal of a long-held position, the Moderate Party announced on Thursday it would "immediately" reveal the names of individuals who donate substantial sums of money to the party. READ »

New Swedish aid portal a 'transparency guarantee'

Politics: 4 Apr 11
The Swedish government on Monday launched a new online service - Openaid.se - in a bid to increase transparency within development aid and enable interested parties to follow the entire aid chain. READ »

Vattenfall bosses in 90 million kronor pay offs

Business & Money: 3 Apr 11
The Swedish state-owned energy utility Vattenfall has paid out more than 90 million kronor in severance pay to three German executives, reported newspaper Sydsvenskan. READ »

Gothenburg bribery trial gets under way

Business & Money: 31 Mar 11
The first trial in a major bribery scandal began in Gothenburg on Thursday as a former housing chief faced charges of having accepted 24 tonnes of free bricks for a private building project. READ »

Olofsson in the dark over Vattenfall pay off

National: 26 Mar 11
The Swedish government has denied that it, or enterprise minister Maud Olofsson, had any knowledge of the golden parachute payment that led to the sacking of Vattenfall chair Lars Westerberg last week. READ »

Vattenfall board in corruption unit probe

National: 24 Mar 11
Sweden's National Anti-Corruption Unit is to investigate whether to open a case against the board of energy firm Vattenfall, after revelations of the 12 million kronor ($1.9 million) golden parachute payment to the former CEO. READ »

Libyan embassy staff resign in Stockholm

Society: 21 Feb 11
Three employees of the Libyan embassy in Stockholm have resigned in protest over what they called the "genocide" currently taking place in the country. READ »

Sweden climbs in competitiveness rankings

Business & Money: 16 Feb 11
Sweden has ranked second in the World's Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011, falling behind Switzerland, but leaping ahead of Singapore and the US. READ »

Scania MAN merger on hold

Business & Money: 2 Feb 11
Swedish truckmaker Scania reported booming profits in its 2010 report published on Wednesday, advising that the proposed merger with Germany's MAN is on hold. READ »

Sweden's economy on display in Davos

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Jan 11
Sweden's strong economy is in focus at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, giving the centre-right Alliance government a chance to spread a new image of Sweden, writes Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and three of his ministers. READ »

Health fund pledges 'zero tolerance' on corruption

Politics: 25 Jan 11
The head of the Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria pledged "zero tolerance" for corruption on Monday after Sweden announced it would not commit to its contributions amid reports of "grave misuse" of about $34 million in four African countries. READ »

Sweden refuses health aid due to corruption

Politics: 23 Jan 11
Sweden has announced that it will not pay its 1.5 billion kronor ($226 million) contribution to the global fund to fight AIDS unless more is done to ensure the cash does not fall into the wrong hands, a report said Saturday. READ »

MAN demands millions from Swedish ex-CEO

Business & Money: 17 Jan 11
Swedish businessman Håkan Samuelsson, the former CEO of German truckmaker MAN, has been ordered to pay the company €237 million ($315 million) in damages for his alleged part in a major corruption scandal. READ »

Bid to reform Swedish political donations fails

Politics: 2 Dec 10
Donations to political parties in Sweden will remain unregulated after the centre-right Alliance government remained unified against calls by the opposition for increased transparency for political party financing. READ »

Swedish politicians reject corruption rules

Politics: 4 Nov 10
Sweden's parliamentary parties have no wish to see universal regulations to govern complimentary trips and hospitality, despite recent focus on the issue of corruption. READ »

Sahlin in the clear over tennis ticket gift

Politics: 3 Nov 10
There will be no investigation into alleged corruption against Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin for accepting hospitality at the Stockholm Open tennis tournament, the prosecutor has ruled. READ »

Corruption unit to investigate Mona Sahlin

Politics: 2 Nov 10
Sweden's National Anti-Corruption Unit is to investigate whether to open a case against Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin, who accepted complimentary tickets to the Stockholm Open tennis tournament. READ »

No bribery probe for Arkelsten: prosecutor

Politics: 1 Nov 10
A Swedish prosecutor has decided not to launch a preliminary investigation into whether sponsored trips taken by Moderate party secretary Sofia Arkelsten amounted to bribery. READ »

Olof Palme and Obamania: Swedes' love-hate relationship with the US

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Nov 10
On the eve of the US mid-term elections, libertarian Swedish commentator and author Fredrik Segerfeldt takes a look at the evolution of Swedes' attitudes toward the United States – with some help from one of Sweden’s most revered singer-songwriters. READ »

An old-fashioned Swedish witch hunt

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Oct 10
The hounding of Moderate Party secretary Sofia Arkelsten may not be the best approach to fighting corruption in Swedish politics, writes The Local's David Landes. READ »

Moderate party secretary criticised for oil firm trip

Politics: 27 Oct 10
The Moderate Party’s new party secretary Sofia Arkelsten came under fire on Wednesday for accepting an all-expenses paid trip to the south of France from Dutch oil company Shell. READ »

Sweden slammed for political funding secrecy

National: 26 Oct 10
Transparency International Sweden has criticised the country for its lack of regulations governing the financing of political parties, arguing that "it is high time to wash off this unnecessary blemish on our democracy". READ »

Sweden tops global rule of law ranking

Society: 15 Oct 10
Rule of law and government effectiveness in Sweden are among the best in the world, according to a new ranking. READ »

First arrest made in Gothenburg bribe probe

National: 7 Sep 10
A contractor with a municipal housing company became the first suspect arrested in connection with a bribery scandal that rocked Gothenburg earlier this year, a prosecutor announced on Tuesday. READ »

Social Democrats back law on contributions

Politics: 6 Sep 10
The Social Democrats have changed course and have proposed a law requiring all Swedish political parties to disclose from where they receive private contributions. READ »

Princess's honeymoon gift 'not a bribe'

National: 20 Aug 10
Crown Princess Victoria’s decision to accept free use of a billionaire’s private jet for her honeymoon will not lead to a bribery investigation, a prosecutor has ruled. READ »

Politicians say no to free biogas car over bribe risk

National: 11 Aug 10
Volkswagen and Eon were hoping to raise the profile of biogas-fuelled cars during the ongoing election campaign by loaning them free of charge to politicians but the risk of being seen as a bribe has put a stop to their plans. READ »

Princess accused of taking honeymoon bribe

National: 9 Aug 10
Prosecutors are to consider whether Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel accepted bribes after a tycoon paid for the couple’s luxury honeymoon. READ »

Sahlin makes first visit to Afghanistan

Politics: 26 Jul 10
The Social Democrats' leader, Mona Sahlin, is visiting Afghanistan for the first time. During her trip, she will visit Swedes in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). READ »

Top outgoing UN Swede slams Ban Ki-moon

National: 22 Jul 10
Aides to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were in damage control mode on Wednesday after a blistering attack on his leadership by the outgoing Swedish head of a UN unit battling internal fraud. READ »

Interview: How a Swedish model exposed Goa's drug dealing cops

Lifestyle: 4 Jun 10
Swedish model Lucky Mångårda Amori went to Bollywood to act, but first she directed a real-life Indian crime drama. Paul O’Mahony meets the former reality TV show contestant who trained a camera on the police and captured corruption on an epic scale. 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 sacks aid agency chief in major overhaul

National: 27 May 10
The Swedish government on Thursday announced a major overhaul of the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) replacing the director-general Anders Nordström with former Save the Children head Charlotte Petri Gornitzka. READ »

Curb on online income snoopers moves closer

Business & Money: 25 May 10
The Swedish parliament's Constitutional Committee has approved Justice Minister Beatrice Ask's proposed a law change that will make it harder to find out other people's incomes online. READ »

'Firms report recession corruption increase'

Business & Money: 24 May 10
Fraud and corruption has increased during the recession with Swedish firms harder hit than the global average, a new survey shows. READ »

Auditors critical after Gothenburg review

Politics: 10 May 10
An independent report commissioned by the municipality of Gothenburg to audit the accounts of the city's sports and clubs division amid allegations of bribery, has stated that the material submitted is incomplete. READ »

Gothenburg opens probe into bribery claims

Politics: 4 May 10
Gothenburg municipality is set to appoint a special review team to conduct a full examination of the entire public administration in the wake of a bribery scandal that has rocked the western Swedish city. READ »

Swedish pavilion at Expo aims to strengthen country's brand

National: 30 Apr 10
The Swedish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo, which opens on Saturday in Shanghai, aims to both increase Sweden's visibility in China and promote trade in the country. READ »

Bribery scandal rocks Gothenburg

National: 30 Apr 10
Sweden's anti-corruption unit has opened an investigation into allegations of aggravated bribery against several officials in Gothenburg after revelations concerning a construction magnate. READ »

Hate cleric will not participate in Swedish conference

National: 3 Apr 10
A US-born Muslim preacher who has described Jews as "filthy" and advocates the execution of homosexuals will not be participating in a Swedish young muslim conference he was scheduled to speak at over Easter weekend. READ »

Swedes' generosity undented by recession

National: 14 Mar 10
The economic downturn and rising unemployment figures have not dented Swedish support for charities, according to new figures from the Swedish Fundraising Council (FRII). READ »

Ikea forecasts 'flat' profits for 2010

Business & Money: 22 Feb 10
In a rare comment on Swedish furniture giant Ikea's financials Monday, the firm's CEO reported flat profits for 2009 with more of the same forecast for 2010. READ »

Sweden keeps secret party donations despite EU criticism

Politics: 18 Feb 10
Despite strong criticism from the Council of Europe the Swedish government does not plan to outlaw anonymous donations to political parties. READ »

Sida officials reject aid minister's criticism

Business & Money: 22 Dec 09
Five top officials at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) have issued a statement criticizing development aid minister Gunilla Carlsson. READ »

Afghanistan must bridge credibility gap: Bildt

Politics: 11 Nov 09
With Kabul's credibility "bordering disaster", Swedish foreign minster Carl Bildt has called on Hamid Karzai to instigate widespread reforms during his second term as president of Afghanistan. READ »

German author wins Nobel Literature Prize

National: 8 Oct 09
German writer Herta Müller has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009. READ »

Afghanistan talks should be held in Kabul: Bildt

Politics: 15 Sep 09
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has said the EU would like to see Kabul host an impending international conference on Afghanistan's future. READ »

'No time line for Afghanistan exit': Bildt

Politics: 1 Sep 09
The international community will not leave Afghanistan until the country has undergone a secure transition, Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt said on Tuesday. READ »

Israel organ harvesting scandal 'medically impossible'

Analysis & Opinion: 31 Aug 09
Aftonbladet's organ harvesting allegations are ludicrous from a medical perspective, writes Johns Hopkins medical school lecturer Andrea Meyerhoff, who also argues that Sweden has missed an opportunity to "reject anti-Semitism and reaffirm principles of good journalism." READ »

Aid minister calls for debate over corruption

Politics: 24 Aug 09
Sweden's development aid minister Gunilla Carlsson, has called for an open debate over the role of aid money in the wake of a corruption scandal involving Swedish funds in Zambia. READ »

Nobel corruption probe dropped

National: 8 Aug 09
An investigation into the alleged corruption of several members of the Nobel prize science committee will be laid down, a Swedish prosecutor announced Friday. READ »

Wallander: a Swedish detective in America

Lifestyle: 22 Jul 09
Kurt Wallander, the brooding protagonist of Henning Mankell’s famed crime novels, recently came to United States’ television screens in a performance by Kenneth Branagh, giving viewers an unexpected opportunity for reflection, The Local’s Marge Thorell explains. READ »

Almedalen — Swedish openness galore

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Jul 09
Anyone who doubts that Sweden is a country characterised by openness and informality should visit Visby during the first week of July, writes Olle Wästberg, Director-General of the Swedish Institute. READ »

Remand order for Red Cross fraud suspect

Society: 16 Jun 09
The former head of communications at the Swedish Red Cross has been remanded in custody on suspicions of having defrauded the organization. READ »

Polling stations open doors for EU vote

Politics: 7 Jun 09
Polling stations across Sweden opened their doors at 8am on Sunday for voting in the EU parliamentary elections. The parties of discontent continue to ride high in the polls as private funding becomes a late election issue. READ »

Latvia police probe targets Swedish banks

Business & Money: 8 May 09
Aggressive methods employed by Swedish banks for collecting money from borrowers in Latvia are the subject of a police investigation, according to the Latvian prime minister. READ »

Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial

Society: 23 Apr 09
A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives. READ »

Volvo execs charged for Saddam-era bribes

Business & Money: 6 Mar 09
Three executives from Volvo’s construction equipment subsidiary have been charged for paying bribes to the regime of Saddam Hussein to skirt restrictions related to the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Programme. READ »

Examiner charged over driving licence bribes

National: 25 Feb 09
A driving examiner from Gothenburg has been indicted on bribery charges. The woman is alleged to have accepted half a million kronor ($57,000) in exchange for approving driving licences for 70 test candidates. READ »

Nord Stream gift prompts bribery probe

Science & Technology: 19 Feb 09
A Swedish prosecutor is looking into suspicions of bribery and corruption after a college on the island of Gotland received a donation from Nord Stream, which wants to build a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. READ »

'Internet rapist' enrolled in computer security class

National: 6 Feb 09
One of Sweden’s most notorious rapists who made contact with his victims over the internet, successfully enrolled in a distance learning course on computer security offered by a Swedish university. READ »

Newspaper rich lists: public service or invasion of privacy?

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Feb 09
Income details are public property in Sweden - so much so that neighbourhood rich lists are regularly published in the press. Paul O’Mahony peers behind the figures to examine attitudes to a practice that is coming under increasing fire. READ »

Sweden seen as land of bribes in EU sculpture

Society: 16 Jan 09
A controversial art installation in Brussels has made a less-than-subtle jab at Sweden’s alleged involvement in attempts to bribe Czech politicians into approving a massive fighter jet order earlier in the decade. READ »

Nobel Committees investigated for bribery

Science & Technology: 18 Dec 08
Swedish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into possible bribery after revelations that members of three Swedish Nobel Committees received free trips to China from the Chinese government. READ »

Swedish inventions - from the zipper to the pacemaker

Lifestyle: 10 Nov 08
Swedish inventors were the ones who made it possible to strike a match and light a stick of dynamite. Nina Liljeqvist examines how innovators from Sweden have managed to create such a big bang. READ »

US election watch: The case for Obama

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Oct 08
With the US election just around the corner, we ask people living in Sweden to outline their reasons for supporting either of the candidates. First up, Peter Dahlen of Democrats Abroad explains why he believes Barack Obama is the right man for the job. READ »

Sweden to stop adoptions from Vietnam

Society: 22 Oct 08
The Swedish government plans to halt adoptions of children from Vietnam citing concerns over corruption and fears that the child’s best interests don’t always come first. READ »

Aid agency Sida hit by spending scandals

Politics: 8 Oct 08
Swedish development aid organization Sida has been shaken this week by allegations of corruption and questionable spending habits. READ »

Sweden tops new transparency ranking

National: 23 Sep 08
Sweden, along with Denmark and New Zealand, achieved the highest score in a new survey ranking 180 countries on perceived levels of public-sector corruption. READ »

Castro in show of solidarity with disgraced taekwando star

Sport: 26 Aug 08
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Monday defended the former Olympic taekwando champion who kicked a Swedish referee in the head at the weekend. READ »

Nobel a likely no-no for Sweden's king of crime fiction

Analysis & Opinion: 20 Aug 08
The most popular work of crime fiction ever published in Sweden is never likely to win a Nobel Prize. But it should, argues Jeanne Rudbeck, who is left spellbound by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. READ »

Swedish wrestler refuses bronze medal

Sport: 14 Aug 08
Greco-Roman wrestler Ara Abrahamian of Sweden refused to receive his bronze medal on Thursday as the Beijing Olympics was treated to a raised-fist protest. READ »

Booze licences subject to bribes

National: 1 Jun 08
Four out of ten local officials claim to have been offered bribes to secure alcohol licences. Six out ten claim that many licences should never have been issued, according to a new survey. READ »

Making sense of the Iraq conference

Analysis & Opinion: 30 May 08
David Landes reviews what the Swedish press had to say about the importance of the Iraq conference held this week in Stockholm. READ »

Bildt seeks to expand Middle East cooperation

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Apr 08
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's recent visit to the Middle East marks a possible shift in Sweden’s traditionally cautious, “two-steps forward, one-step back” approach to Middle Eastern conflicts, writes Rami Abdelrahman. READ »

The path to Swedish asylum: A smuggler speaks

Lifestyle: 19 Mar 08
Rami Abdelrahman travels to Jordan and tracks down the first link in the chain of an underground operation involved in the smuggling of Iraqi refugees to Sweden. READ »

Sweden and France compromise on Turkey

Politics: 11 Dec 07
France and Sweden resolved a row on Monday highlighting their differences over Turkey's suitability to join the EU. READ »

Kalmar's Chinese market put on ice

Business & Money: 10 Dec 07
Plans for a giant Chinese wholesale market in Kalmar have been put on ice. READ »

TV4 files complaint against prosecutor

Politics: 9 Nov 07
TV4 has reported chief prosecutor Christer van der Kvast to the Chancellor of Justice following a raid on the station's offices this week. READ »

Police raid offices of TV4

National: 7 Nov 07
Police raided the offices of TV4 in Stockholm on Wednesday in an attempt to obtain a copy of a restaurant bill paid by reporter Anders Pihlblad. READ »

A leap of faith

Lifestyle: 12 Oct 07
Swedish women who convert to Islam: Of the 400,000 people in Sweden estimated to be celebrating the end of Ramadan this weekend, around 5,000 are ethnic Swedes who have converted to Islam. Two women converts tell Rami Abdelrahman about how they square their faith with society's expectations. READ »

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