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Swedish feminists praise Peace Prize winners

Society: 7 Oct 11
Swedish women's rights activists and peace groups hailed the awarding of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to three women who have been instrumental in promoting women's role in peace-building activities in Africa and the Middle East. READ »

Lars Ohly: Seven years at the helm of Sweden's Left Party

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Aug 11
Lars Ohly on Tuesday said that he is to step down as leader of Sweden's Left Party. While widely respected as a person and as a skilful debater, his tenure will be remembered more for his stance on Communism and electoral decline. READ »

Harvard to host Stieg Larsson lectures

Society: 19 Jul 11
Students at the prestigious Harvard University will soon have the chance to study the Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson when an expert on Swedish crime fiction joins the faculty for a guest lectureship. READ »

Swedish media join in foolish April fun

Society: 1 Apr 11
Shampoo for shaggy hardrocker festival-goers, dog poop fireworks to save the environment, as well as The Local's own anti-feminist Viking village, were among the April Fools' Day hoaxes in the Swedish media on Friday. READ »

Anti-feminist 'Viking' community uncovered in Swedish wilds

Society: 1 Apr 11
An isolated community of “Vikings” has been found in one of the most remote parts of Europe, living on the fringes of civilisation near Sweden's Sarek national park and established in response to ‘feminist dogma’. READ »

Swedish feminists elect leadership triumvirate

Politics: 27 Mar 11
Swedish political party the Feminist Initiative has elected two women and a man to succeed the outgoing founder and spokesperson Gudrun Schyman. READ »

New details emerge about Assange accusers

National: 19 Dec 10
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vows to fight against his extradition from the UK to Sweden, police reports have shed more light on the women and the events at the centre of the sex crime allegations against him. READ »

Robyn: leading a new generation of pop

Lifestyle: 10 Dec 10
With a trifecta of newly released albums and a Swede Of The Year Award under her belt, Swedish singer Robyn may find 2010 hard to top. But as the AFP’s James Pheby discovers, one should never underestimate Sweden’s reigning pop sensation. READ »

'Eat, Pray, Love' thinking a 'feminist challenge'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Nov 10
While there are certainly benefits to positive thinking, Swedish feminist Jenny Sonesson argues that women might not have the right to vote today if suffragettes had been satisfied writing gratitude diaries. READ »

An indictment of the Social Democrats?

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Nov 10
While Mona Sahlin bears ultimate responsibility for the Social Democrats' poor electoral performance, her departure as party leader can also be seen as an indictment of a party in deadlock, writes social democratic commentator Eric Sundström. READ »

Live Blog: election night in Sweden

Politics: 20 Sep 10
The Local's correspondents bring you all the latest news from the Swedish election, live from the main parties' headquarters in Stockholm. See the drama unfold live here. READ »

Introducing the Feminist Initiative

Analysis & Opinion: 13 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Feminist Initiative, bidding to enter parliament for the first time. READ »

Introducing the Social Democrats

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Social Democrats, bidding to assume power at the head of the Red-Green coalition. READ »

Big claims, little evidence: Sweden's law against buying sex

Analysis & Opinion: 23 Jul 10
A new review of Sweden's ban on buying sex has provided little hard evidence that the policy of prohibition has worked, writes Laura Agustín, but few politicians have dared to point out its obvious failings. READ »

Birgitta Ohlsson - A maverick in a ministerial suit

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jun 10
Sweden's Minister of EU Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson talks to The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson about freedom of expression in Sweden and Europe today; the euro and Sweden's status outside of it; and what can be done to encourage and promote universal European liberal values. READ »

'Don't force mothers to stay at home'

Analysis & Opinion: 25 Feb 10
The European Commission's proposed new directive on maternity leave is well-meaning but fatally flawed, argues Minister for EU Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson. READ »

February in Sweden: No sex please, we're cold

Lifestyle: 4 Feb 10
The Year in Sweden - February: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966. READ »

Profile: Sweden's new EU minister Birgitta Ohlsson

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 10
Birgitta Ohlsson was named as Sweden's new EU minister on Tuesday. An outspoken advocate of feminism, equality and civil liberties issues, as well as a keen supporter of Nato membership, Ohlsson also harbours dreams of a top UN human rights post. READ »

Gender trouble - time to bury the feminist hatchet?

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Oct 09
Since when is the ubiquitous Anna Anka a feminist? And why are feminists apportioned blame for so many of the worlds ills? The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson enters the Hollywood housewife debate. READ »

Anna Anka conjures bygone era of Bad Girls and Mad Men

Analysis & Opinion: 13 Oct 09
An outspoken Hollywood housewife prompts The Local's Jeanne Rudbeck to weigh up her options: stay a wage slave to the grave or get back to bitchin' in the kitchen. READ »

'Taxpayers should not have to fund feminist porn'

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 09
The idea of feminist porn may be attractive to some but there is no reason for the state to cough up half a million kronor to fund its production, argues Beatrice Fredriksson, a member of the Moderate Party's youth organisation and author of the Anti-Feminist Initiative blog. READ »

Gudrun Schyman's quest for equality

Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 09
Feminist Initiative lynchpin Gudrun Schyman speaks to The Local about her vision for a gender equal Europe. READ »

Nazis assault feminist festival-goers

Society: 19 May 08
At least seven people attending a festival promoting feminism were assaulted on Sunday evening by a group of neo-Nazis in a small village in eastern Sweden. READ »

'Swedish feminists should embrace free markets'

Analysis & Opinion: 18 Mar 08
Swedish feminists could well secure more support if they decided to embrace free markets rather than left wing ideologies, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank. READ »

Lessing finally receives Nobel Prize

National: 31 Jan 08
British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to come to Stockholm. READ »

Doris Lessing too ill to attend Nobel Prize ceremony

National: 28 Nov 07
Doris Lessing will not attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on December 10th due to illness, it has been announced. READ »

What's the point of protesting?

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Apr 07
When Sweden's labour movement takes to the streets on May 1st this year, they will for once have something other than a socialist government to protest against. But, argues Captus's Nima Sanandaji, they overestimate the influence of ideology on politics. READ »

Sweden's youth politics comes of age

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Aug 06
With Sweden's closest general election in more than a decade looming, the country's political future is, more than ever before, in the hands of the fickle youth. Eddie de Oliveira talks to the young pretenders. READ »

Left Party: teach all girls self-defence

Politics: 28 Jun 06
Sweden's Left Party wants all girls to be offered 'feminist self-defence' training from the seventh grade, aged 13-14. Meanwhile, boys should attend courses in feminism. READ »

"It's rubbish that we want to abolish marriage"

Lifestyle: 24 May 06
Straight-talking feminist politician Gudrun Schyman will be giving a speech next week in a Stockholm pub next week - in English. READ »

Stockholm Syndrome: Men are the new women

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 05
After considerable effort our Stockholm Syndrome correspondent realises that when it comes to appearance, he cannot hope to compete with the men of Sweden. READ »

FI has damaged feminism - LO chief

Politics: 25 Oct 05
The head of union movement LO has accused Sweden's Feminist Initiative of harming feminism. Wanja Lundby-Wedin also admits that former Social Democrats are being tempted by the Moderates. READ »

Fi ? equality's worst enemy

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 05
Sweden's feminist party is made up of self-serving, politically correct pseudo intellectuals. Gudrun Schyman should sink this initiative before its extremism harms the cause of equality. READ »

Swedish company boards "could face sex quotas"

Society: 11 Jun 05
Sweden may be The Most Equal Country in The World® but the higher up the corporate ladder women climb, the more slippery it becomes. Now Justice Minister Thomas Bodström says men's dominance of business is "unnacceptable". READ »

Comment: Swedish Television cheapens the feminism debate

Lifestyle: 27 May 05
SVT's controversial TV programme on 'extreme feminism' has provoked a week of fierce media debate, with the chairwoman of ROKS, the national women's refuge organisation, portrayed as a man-hating loon. But how much of that was down to selective editing? READ »

Green Party split on feminist approach

Politics: 5 May 05
The F-word looms large over the Greens' national congress, with an all-female group calling for greater status within the party. But the leadership disagrees. READ »

L?emploi en Suède

Smörgåsbord: 5 May 05
Qu’il s’agisse des discours du premier mai, des propositions des syndicats pour réagir face au chômage, ou encore d’un nouveau site internet d’offres d’emplois aux méthodes très controversées, les problèmes lies à l’emploi sont au cœur de l’actualité de la semaine. READ »

Feminist party "could undermine government"

Politics: 8 Mar 05
International Women's Day brings intensified rumours of a new feminist party - much to the dismay of Sweden's social democrats, whose party secretary Marita Ulvskog marked the occasion by launching a new feminist network. Plus: what kind of feminist are you? READ »

One in five Swedes could vote for feminist party

Politics: 14 Dec 04
A new poll adds credibility to rumours that Left Party black sheep Gudrun Schyman is planning her own feminist party. And then another unpaid bill undermines that credibility. READ »

Media glee as Schyman quits Left Party

Politics: 8 Dec 04
Why is Sweden so hot on gender equality?
First she stopped drinking, then she stopped reporting her taxes correctly. Then she stepped down as leader of the Left party, and now she's leaving the party entirely. Every time Gudrun Schyman calls it quits, the headlines just get bigger. READ »


Highlights from Follow Sweden

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

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 »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

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 »


Blog Update: Julie's Nordic Island

12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"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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'Drunkorexia' on the rise in Sweden: report
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Seven Swedish designs that will blow your mind
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Star Wars in Swedish causes fan outrage
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The Swedish language needs a new pronoun free of preconceived notions about gender, a Swedish linguist and representatives from a publishing house argue
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Madonna set for July 4th concert in Sweden
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An inside look at 'The Office' in Swedish
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Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer
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A duvet cover designed to look like cardboard boxes, on sale at a luxury department store in Stockholm, has some arguing that the city's homeless are being exploited for profit.
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Five Swedish songs that never made Eurovision
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Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley explains how ‘three bespectacled English guys’ plan to make Swedes laugh
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Move over Bugs – a Swedish bunny is rapidly becoming the most popular rabbit in the world!
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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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