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Löfven takes over: 'our values are timeless'

Politics: 27 Jan 12
Stefan Löfven was formally installed as the new leader of Sweden's struggling Social Democrat party on Friday, following the resignation of Håkan Juholt last weekend. READ »

Union boss tipped as new Social Democrat head

Politics: 26 Jan 12
Stefan Löfven, current chair of Sweden’s IF Metall trade union, is set to take over as interim head of the Social Democrats, according to Swedish media reports, which were subsequently confirmed by his mother. READ »

'We will have an answer on Monday': Jämtin

Politics: 23 Jan 12
When the Social Democrats' crisis meeting broke up for the evening just before midnight on Sunday night, the executive committee had not yet decided their next move. READ »

Raoul Wallenberg – Sweden's Not-So-Favourite Son

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jan 12
The Swedish government has announced that it will designate 2012 as the official "Raoul Wallenberg Year" and the honour is more than deserved, according to historian Susanne Berger. READ »

Borg grabs top spot in Financial Times' ranking

Business & Money: 23 Nov 11
The Financial Times (FT) has elected Swedish finance minister Anders Borg as the best minister for finance in Europe for 2011, news met with scepticism by Borg's Social Democratic opponent, who claimed he would also have won the top spot if he had been finance minister. READ »

Reinfeldt rejects resignation rumour

Politics: 23 Sep 11
Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has denied speculation that he intends to resign his post before the general election in 2014, and pave the way for current finance minister Anders Borg to take over. READ »

Former Swedish minister joins Goldman Sachs

Business & Money: 26 Jul 11
Former Swedish finance minister Eric Åsbrink has been given a new position as an advisor at the United States' largest investment bank Goldman Sachs. READ »

Sahlin slams Social Democrats over Libya

Politics: 30 May 11
Former Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has criticised the party's u-turns over Sweden's participation in the UN-backed Libya mission, and new leader Håkan Juholt for being "harsh" to former justice minister Thomas Bodström. READ »

Thomas Bodström: Sahlin victim of a coup

Politics: 23 May 11
Mona Sahlin was ousted by a group of her main opponents for the post as leader of the Social Democrats, according to revelations in a new book published by former justice minister Thomas Bodström. READ »

Labour market divides Swedish budget debate

Politics: 13 Apr 11
Sweden's finance minister Anders Borg emphasised falling unemployment figures in the budget debate in the Riksdag on Wednesday, while the Social Democrats argued that Sweden was suffering from "mass unemployment". READ »

Juholt: 'There is another way, a different choice'

Politics: 26 Mar 11
Håkan Juholt, the new leader of Sweden's Social Democrat party, attacked the government's record on youth unemployment, child poverty and 'growing divides' in society, in his inaugural speech on Saturday. READ »

Dark horse MP named as Sahlin's successor

Politics: 10 Mar 11
Håkan Juholt, current chair of the Riksdag's Committee on Defence, has been put forward as the Social Democrats' top choice to become the party's new leader, the chair of the party's nomination committee announced on Thursday. READ »

Nuder: I'm not running for party leader post

National: 24 Jan 11
Former Swedish Democratic finance minister Pär Nuder has said he will not run for the post of party leader following weekend speculation that he was a favourite to take over after Mona Sahlin. READ »

Reinfeldt dealt first Riksdag vote defeat

Politics: 9 Dec 10
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Thursday suffered his first parliamentary defeat since reelection as the far-right Sweden Democrats and centre-left opposition voted in favour of major cuts to the government's administrative budget. READ »

FT ranks Borg fourth of EU financial chiefs

Business & Money: 6 Dec 10
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg came in fourth among a ranking of 19 European finance ministers published by the Financial Times (FT) newspaper on Monday. READ »

Swedish ire stopped CIA 'terror flights'

National: 5 Dec 10
Suspicions that the United States was transporting terror suspects via Sweden on clandestine flights resulted in a diplomatic crisis, according to documents released by WikiLeaks. READ »

Party leader candidate joins Albright group

Politics: 19 Nov 10
Senior Social Democrat Pär Nuder, formerly Göran Persson's finance minister and hotly tipped as a candidate to succeed outgoing party leader Mona Sahlin, has been recruited by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright as a consultant. READ »

Social Democrats face chaos as Sahlin departs

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Nov 10
Sweden's Social Democrats, for decades the dominant force in Swedish national politics, are facing chaos after leader Mona Sahlin announced her imminent departure over the weekend, with no clear successor to fill her shoes, writes the AFP's Rita Devlin Marier. READ »

Farms, homes evacuated after dam bursts

National: 7 Nov 10
A dam burst in Hästberga in southern Sweden on Sunday caused floods and forced residents to evacuate. 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 »

Britain looks to Sweden for austerity plan ideas

Analysis & Opinion: 24 Oct 10
As Britain braces for massive spending cuts, observers say Prime Minister David Cameron should take note of Sweden's successful battle to shrink its huge deficit in the 1990s, writes AFP's Nina Larson. READ »

Bodström chooses family over Riksdag

Politics: 15 Oct 10
Former Social Democratic justice minister Thomas Bodström is leaving politics and giving up his seat in the Riksdag to remain with his family in the United States. 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 »

Sahlin and Reinfeldt enter final sprint for lasting political glory

Politics: 18 Sep 10
With polls set to open in 24 hours rivals Fredrik Reinfeldt and Mona Sahlin are both looking for an electoral victory to cement their leadership status after long political comebacks. 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 »

Hägglund turns down Stockholm Pride invite

Politics: 15 Jul 10
Christian Democrat (KD) leader Göran Hägglund is the only party leader to have turned down an invitation to attend Stockholm Pride and KD will be the only parliamentary party without representation at the annual LGBT festival. READ »

Social Democrats seek apology over Sahlin slur

Politics: 27 Apr 10
Top Social Democrat Thomas Östros has demanded an apology from Mats Odell after the local government minster dredged a 15-year-old scandal back up to the surface of Swedish politics. READ »

Swedes back housekeeping tax relief

Politics: 3 Mar 10
A new poll shows Swedes are in favour of the system of household services tax relief that the left-green opposition has declared it will abolish - despite its popularity among top Social Democrats - if it wins the autumn election, READ »

Opposition poll lead 'very worrying': Reinfeldt

Politics: 14 Dec 09
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has admitted he is concerned by poll results showing the opposition in a commanding lead over the centre-right coalition government. READ »

Overwhelming support for Reinfeldt over Sahlin

Politics: 4 Sep 09
60 percent of Swedes expressed faith in Fredrik Reinfeldt as prime minister in a new voter survey. Opposition leader Mona Sahlin has the confidence of only 20 percent. READ »

EU commissioner Wallström praises Swedish government

Politics: 4 May 09
The Alliance government is doing a better job in the EU than the previous Social Democratic government headed by Göran Persson, the Swedish EU commissioner and Social Democrat Margot Wallström has said. READ »

Sweden spied on CIA 'terror flights': report

National: 24 Apr 09
The government led by former Prime Minister Göran Persson knew that Sweden was used as a transit destination for clandestine CIA flights transporting suspected terrorists, according to reports that emerged on Friday. READ »

Nuder to leave Riksdag

Politics: 23 Feb 09
Pär Nuder, a prominent Social Democrat and former finance minister, has announced he won’t seek re-election to the Riksdag in 2010. READ »

Arla exec to take over as head of Systembolaget

Business & Money: 23 Jan 09
Sweden’s state-run liquor monopoly Systembolaget has named a successor to Anitra Steen, who is set to retire from her position as managing director on April 30th. READ »

Bodström reported over CIA terror deportations

National: 19 Jan 09
Former justice minister Thomas Bodström and former prime minister Göran Persson have been reported to the Riksdag's constitutional committee after new details emerged over the expulsion of two terror suspects from Sweden to Egypt in 2001. READ »

Sweden pressured in 2001 terror case: report

National: 19 Jan 09
Fresh details have surfaced about the deportation of two terror suspects from Sweden to Egypt in December 2001, including allegations of US pressure and the role of former foreign minister Anna Lindh, following the release a new book on Monday. READ »

Social Democrats praise government equality record

Politics: 2 Jan 09
The Swedish government has received plaudits from the opposition Social Democrats over new figures which show that state appointments are in line with Sweden's gender and ethnic diversity. READ »

More Swedes favourable toward the euro: poll

Politics: 24 Nov 08
Support for the euro in Sweden is increasing, although a majority of Swedes would still vote to retain the krona if a referendum on the matter were held today, according to a new poll. READ »

Ex-policeman: Lindh murder investigation 'full of mistakes'

National: 10 Nov 08
The investigation into the assassination of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in 2003 was just as poorly handled in the first 24 hours as the Olof Palme investigation in 1986, according to a former police chief. READ »

Free trade fears cloud Sweden's embrace of Obama

Politics: 5 Nov 08
Amid the excitement in Sweden over Barack Obama’s victory, there remains real concern among members of the political and business establishment over how the US president-elect will approach the issue of free trade. READ »

'Meat mountain' ex-minister slams Swedish security service

Politics: 22 Oct 08
Sweden's former Finance Minister Pär Nuder has criticized the country's security service over its failure to protect assassinated Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. READ »

Sweden is in the eye of the beholder

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Oct 08
Sweden means many different things to many different people. Just ask the United States Secret Service, writes Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute. READ »

Volvo gives go-ahead for black liquor car fuel

Science & Technology: 11 Sep 08
A unique project set up to demonstrate the viability of DME as a new eco-friendly fuel was given the go-ahead by Volvo on Tuesday. If the BioDME scheme proves to be successful, DME could become a major fuel source in Sweden, writes Jennifer Heape. READ »

Sweden reflects on Anna Lindh's death

Politics: 11 Sep 08
On the fifth anniversary of the assassination of foreign minister Anna Lindh, Sweden is reflecting more on the legacy of her work in politics than the tragic circumstances surrounding her death. READ »

Anitra Steen to leave Systembolaget

Society: 4 Sep 08
Anitra Steen has informed the board of Swedish alcohol retail monopoly Systembolaget that she intends to step down from her post as managing director in May 2009. READ »

Lars Danielsson appointed as Hong Kong consul

National: 7 Aug 08
The government has appointed former under-Secretary of State to Göran Persson, Lars Danielsson, as Sweden's consul-general to Hong Kong and Macau. The Social Democrats have accused foreign minister Carl Bildt of engaging in a personal vendetta. READ »

Swedish snoop law targets Russia

National: 9 Jul 08
Sweden's new surveillance law will enable the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) to scan massive quantities of Russian computer and telecom data. READ »

Persson enlarges country manor

National: 2 Jul 08
Sweden’s former prime minister Göran Persson continues to expand his country estate in Sörmland County south of Stockholm, having recently purchased an additional 88 hectares. READ »

Bus strike underway in Stockholm

National: 1 Jul 08
More than 6,000 Stockholm-area bus drivers went on strike at midnight, causing commuting headaches for thousands of area residents. READ »

Teachers: 'Go back to state schools'

Education: 23 May 08
Eight out of ten teachers would like the state to exert more influence over Sweden's schools, a new study has shown. READ »

State job appointments shrouded in secrecy

Politics: 27 Apr 08
The government has been accused of a lack of transparency when filling top state jobs. Only one in three appointments have been advertised since the Alliance parties took office. READ »

Sweden's welfare state 'alive and kicking'

Lifestyle: 6 Apr 08
The sale of Absolut vodka was the latest in a wave of liberal reforms by Sweden's centre-right government. But AFP's Pia Ohlin finds that, despite privatizations and new tax laws, Sweden is still very much a welfare state. READ »

Making history: the Gulag, the Holocaust, and Sweden

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Apr 08
Who suffered more, victims of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, or victims of Hitler, Eichmann, and Himmler? And what role does the Swedish state have in answering the question? David Landes looks at what Sweden’s papers have to say about the issue. READ »

Prominent Social Democrat named head of Svenska Spel

Business & Money: 4 Apr 08
Margareta Winberg (l), a former Social Democratic Deputy Prime Minister, was named by Finance Minister Anders Borg (r), as the new chair of Sweden’s state-owned gaming operation. READ »

Sahlin pushes for more paternity leave

Politics: 11 Mar 08
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has said she is ready to fight to ensure that dads spend more time with their kids. READ »

Former PM maxes out on tax break he opposed

Politics: 1 Feb 08
Göran Persson bitterly opposed tax breaks for employing cleaners or other domestic help, but now he is making maximum use of the deductions. READ »

Social Democrats opt for Östros

Politics: 30 Jan 08
Thomas Östros has been elected new economic policy spokesman for the Social Democrats following a meeting of the party's parliamentary group on Tuesday. READ »

Reinfeldt gives chairman job to Persson

Politics: 29 Jan 08
Former Prime Minister Göran Persson has been made chairman of state forestry company Sveaskog. The outgoing chairman claims a political stitch-up. READ »

Sahlin criticized for Nuder sacking

Politics: 26 Jan 08
Social Democratic party leader Mona Sahlin has been criticized for her handling of the sacking of economic policy spokesperson Pär Nuder. READ »

Nuder jumps after rumours of push

Politics: 24 Jan 08
Social Democrat economic policy spokesman Pär Nuder has stepped down from the post following speculation that party leader Mona Sahlin was dissatisfied with his performance. READ »

Reinfeldt more visible in media

Politics: 21 Dec 07
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's low media profile would appear to have been raised - but it's not good news for the Swedish leader. READ »

Ryanair settles with Persson and Freivalds

Business & Money: 17 Dec 07
Ryanair has settled out of court its dispute with Göran Persson and Laila Freivalds. READ »

Reinfeldt: Schenström was on call

Politics: 1 Nov 07
Ulrica Schenström, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's closest aide, was on call when she was out drinking with a political reporter from TV4, Reinfeldt has said. READ »

Persson reflects on election defeat in new book

Politics: 23 Oct 07
Göran Persson has written a book about his ten years as Sweden's prime minister. In it, he explains how he could have won the election if he had only ignored the advice of his finance minister. READ »

Bodström to make crime fiction debut

Lifestyle: 15 Oct 07
Sweden's former Minister of Justice Thomas Bodström has taken adavantage of his new-found surplus of free time to write a crime novel. "There will be some revelations," he tells The Local. READ »

Reinfeldt and Sahlin clash over jobs

Politics: 8 Oct 07
Sweden's prime minister and main opposition leader met in a televised debate on Sunday night, with jobs the main focus of discussion. A low-key debate did not prevent sharp disagreements. READ »

Persson profits from retirement

Politics: 25 Sep 07
Former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson has been receiving a full ex-prime minister's salary, despite having a number of jobs in the private sector, it has been reported. READ »

Sweden big loser in EU budget

National: 24 Sep 07
Sweden was the second largest net contributor to the European Union's budget last year, paying €850 million more in contributions than it received back. Only the Netherlands lost out more. READ »

Reinfeldt one year on

Analysis & Opinion: 17 Sep 07
Political whizzes or hapless novices? The Local asked two leading analysts - PJ Anders Linder and Stig-Björn Ljunggren - to give their view of the Alliance government's first year in power. READ »

'Make personal information private'

Politics: 8 Sep 07
The new Liberal leader, Jan Björklund, has called for limits on the amount of personal information about citizens the state makes public. He also used his speech to attack Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin for "hypocrisy". READ »

Messing quits front-line politics

Politics: 24 Aug 07
Former minister Ulrica Messing has announced she is leaving full-time politics. A statement issued by her Social Democratic Party said she was quitting parliament to "try something different" after 16 years in the Riksdag. READ »

"Let Göran Persson run IMF" - Pagrotsky

Business & Money: 5 Jul 07
Former Swedish prime minister Göran Persson is a strong candidate to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund - that, at least, is the view of his old colleague Leif Pagrotsky. READ »

Tearful Ambassador alerted Sweden to tsunami

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. READ »

'Danielsson was too passive' - Catastrophe Commission

Politics: 14 Jun 07
The Catastophe Commission established to look into the government's handling of the tsunami disaster in 2004 has reinforced its previous view that staff at government offices were too passive during the initial stages of the crisis. READ »

Reinfeldt and Sahlin go head to head

Politics: 13 Jun 07
"What do you plan to do? How do you plan to do it? And who do you plan to do it with?" Fredrik Reinfeldt opened Wednesday's party leader debate with a salvo of questions for debutant Mona Sahlin. READ »

Danielsson tsunami story contradicted by tapes

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. READ »

Swedes warm to sociable Sahlin

Politics: 7 Jun 07
Swedes would rather socialize with the opposition leader than the prime minister. But Reinfeldt is the right person to lead the government, according to a new poll. READ »

Göran Persson fined for safety breaches

Politics: 1 Jun 07
Sweden's former Prime Minister Göran Persson has been fined for health and safety breaches discovered last year during the building of his mansion. READ »

Persson denies admitting building breaches

Politics: 25 May 07
Former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson has denied admitting breaching health and safety laws during the building of his new mansion, according to his lawyer. READ »

Persson slammed for PR job

Politics: 8 May 07
Former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson has been criticized by former colleagues and political experts for taking a job with a PR firm. Persson is joining a sector he himself has frequently slammed. READ »

Göran Persson becomes PR consultant

National: 8 May 07
Sweden's former Prime Minister Göran Persson has announced that he is to begin working as a PR consultant for JKL Group. There he will team up with his former press secretary, who started at the firm last year. READ »

Introducing... 'Food' Tina

Lifestyle: 30 Apr 07
Sweden's answer to Martha Stewart, Tina Nordström mixes southern charm with a cheeky sense of humour. Paul O'Mahony takes a closer look at the woman everyone calls 'Food' Tina. READ »

'Persson's memory is flawed' - Freivalds

Politics: 10 Apr 07
Former Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds says that she personally informed Göran Persson about the sequence of events that led to the closure of a rival party's website. Persson claims to have read about it in a memo. READ »

Sweden to phase out Å, Ä and Ö

National: 1 Apr 07
A parliamentary group proposes scrapping the Swedish letters Å, Ä and Ö, citing globalization and competitiveness. Another reason may have been April Fool's Day... READ »

Documentary was too negative - Persson

Politics: 29 Mar 07
Göran Persson has slammed a television documentary about his time in power as an example of the media's 'clipping' of politics. Only his negative views were shown, he says. READ »

'Dagens Nyheter is a horrible newspaper' - Persson

Politics: 26 Mar 07
In the final installment of an interview series with Göran Persson, the former prime minister speaks out about his antipathy towards Dagens Nyheter in general and one of its columnists in particular. READ »

Reinfeldt and Wallström praise EU

Politics: 24 Mar 07
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and European Commissioner Margot Wallström have published a joint article praising the EU on the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the European bloc. READ »

Wallström slams party over EU

Politics: 23 Mar 07
European Commissioner and leading Social Democrat Margot Wallström has criticized her own party for its "timid" approach to the EU while in government. READ »

"Persson is lying" - Carl Bildt

Politics: 21 Mar 07
Part two of a documentary on former PM Göran Persson provided further insights into the mind of the man who led Sweden for over ten years. Carl Bildt, Gudrun Schyman and Yasser Arafat all come in for criticism. READ »

Catastrophe Commission looks to security guards

Politics: 21 Mar 07
Security guards at government offices have been given permission to break their vow of professional silence to speak out about the the period surrounding the tsunami crisis in 2004. READ »

Reinfeldt and Sahlin pleased with first debate

Politics: 20 Mar 07
Monday night saw the first televised debate between the Prime Minister and the new leader of the opposition. As in the election, jobs topped the billing. READ »

Persson slams Sahlin and Bildt in new documentary

Politics: 19 Mar 07
In a controversial documentary former Prime Minister Göran Persson criticizes Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin for her inability to think, while Carl Bildt is worthy only of pity, he says. READ »

Sahlin's first speech wows party faithful

Politics: 18 Mar 07
Mona Sahlin's first speech as the leader of the Social Democrats was received warmly by the party faithful at their conference in Stockholm on Sunday morning. READ »

Sahlin accepts Social Democrat leadership

Politics: 17 Mar 07
Mona Sahlin has been confirmed as Social Democratic leader at a conference in Stockholm. Accepting the job, Sahlin vowed to fight for Social Democratic years and vowed to reform parts of the party organization. READ »

Profile: Mona Sahlin

Politics: 17 Mar 07
Mona Sahlin has had a long political career in which she has swung between party darling and outcast. But much remains unknown about how she plans to lead the Social Democrats. READ »

Sahlin set for coronation as Social Democrat leader

Politics: 17 Mar 07
Six months after a crushing election defeat, the Social Democrats are due to elect a new leader on Saturday. The event is expected to be a coronation for sole candidate Mona Sahlin. READ »

Social Democrat voters not keen on Sahlin

Politics: 16 Mar 07
On Saturday Mona Sahlin is expected to be named the new leader of Sweden's largest political party. But only half of the party's voters have confidence in her ability to do the job. READ »

Government advertises jobs in newspapers

Politics: 15 Mar 07
In a tentative first step towards relinquishing the power of appointment, the government has placed job ads for top public sector posts in two major newspapers. READ »

Calls for journalist's release from Eritrean jail

National: 14 Mar 07
Senior figures in the Swedish media are demanding action from the government to free Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak from a jail in Eritrea, on his 2,000th day behind bars. READ »

Social Democrats 'no more electable' under Sahlin

Politics: 14 Mar 07
Fewer than half of Social Democrat voters believe that new leader Mona Sahlin will make the party more electable, according to a new poll. A majority of voters as a whole think her leadership will be negative or make no difference. READ »


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