May 28, 2012
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Politics: 28 Aug 11
The man convicted of the 2003 murder of Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh, Mijailo Mijailovic, has finally spoken out about the case after eight years in prison.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Sep 10
Here's a look at the centre-right Alliance, which is looking to win another term as Sweden's ruling coalition.
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Politics: 17 Jun 09
Liberal Party Riksdag member Tobias Krantz will take over as Sweden’s Minister for Higher Education and Research, the Swedish government announced on Wednesday.
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Politics: 11 Jun 09
Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg has resigned from the cabinet. "I feel like doing something different," the minister said in a statement.
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Society: 1 Jun 09
The Swedish state should not engage in the training of imams, a commission of inquiry into the issue has concluded in its report submitted to the government on Monday.
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National: 25 May 09
Sweden's Globalisation Council has proposed 28 billion kronor in reforms to taxes and social insurances in its final report published on Monday.
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Education: 12 May 09
The Swedish government’s proposal to charge university tuition fees to non-European students has been postponed by one year, officials say.
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Education: 13 Mar 09
The government has said it plans to reject applications from Swedish colleges (högskolor) interested in upgrading their status to full-fledged universities.
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Education: 25 Feb 09
A new government proposal calls for compulsory membership in student unions to be made voluntary for students enrolled in Swedish colleges and universities starting in July 2010.
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Lifestyle: 31 Dec 08
As 2008 draws to a close, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention over the last twelve months.
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Politics: 30 Dec 08
Swedish finance minister Anders Borg is ranked highly by his party colleagues with a 71 percent approval rating. Defence minister Sten Tolgfors meanwhile has the backing of only 3 percent of his peers.
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Education: 8 Dec 08
Universities and colleges in Sweden ought to cut ties with the state in order to have more freedom to raise funds and control their own affairs, a government commission has proposed.
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Education: 25 Nov 08
Sweden’s National Agency for Higher Education has criticized the ranking of different universities and colleges, arguing the lists don’t help students pick the right school.
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Education: 22 Oct 08
Several colleges and universities in Sweden are to receive money to set up offices of innovation which will help researchers turn their discoveries into commercial enterprises.
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Society: 5 Oct 08
The stock market downturn is punishing Swedish shareholders, with losses averaging 10,000 kronor ($1,400) per shareholder. But the outlook for King Carl XVI Gustav is considerably gloomier.
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Education: 18 Sep 08
The Swedish government wants to devote 100 million kronor ($15 million) to provide additional training to people with academic degrees from other countries.
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National: 17 Sep 08
The government announced plans on Wednesday to make entrepreneurship a unifying theme in the Swedish education system.
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Politics: 6 Sep 08
Liberal party (Folkpartiet) leader Jan Björklund has rejected reports that he is set to remove his predecessor Lars Leijonborg from the government in October.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Jun 08
David Landes takes a look at how the papers reacted to the idea of charging fees to non-European students who wish to study at Swedish universities.
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Education: 23 Jun 08
Sweden is to start charging tuition to non-European university students, according to higher education minister Lars Leijonborg.
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Science & Technology: 28 May 08
The government has changed its strategy for green cars, deciding that electric is better than ethanol.
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Education: 22 May 08
The government announced plans on Thursday to examine whether Sweden should implement a special training program for imams.
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National: 5 Feb 08
The Swedish government has begun exploring the possibility of providing religious training for Muslim leaders.
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Politics: 26 Dec 07
Fredrik Reinfeldt has been overtaken by Mona Sahlin as the most popular party leader in Sweden. Voter confidence in the prime minister has dropped to 45 percent.
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Politics: 14 Sep 07
Voters have greater confidence in Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt than any of the other party leaders, according to a new poll. The Social Democrats' Mona Sahlin is in second place.
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Science & Technology: 9 Sep 07
Sweden is to commit an extra 300 million kronor to research in the autumn budget, according to higher education and research minister Lars Leijonborg.
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Politics: 7 Sep 07
Sweden's Liberal Party, one of the four parties making up the governing Alliance for Sweden, has formally confirmed Schools Minister Jan Björklund as its new leader, at a conference in Västerås.
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Politics: 5 Sep 07
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has seized on the resignation of Defence Minister Mikael Odenberg as a sign of governmental weakness. The head of Sweden's armed forces expressed regret.
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Politics: 29 Aug 07
Lars Leijonborg will remain a minister after he is replaced as Liberal Party leader by Jan Björklund next month, although will take a more junior role, Sveriges Radio reports.
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Society: 12 Jul 07
One in four Swedish students has considered quitting education because of financial problems, according to a report from Sweden's largest white-collar union. Education minister Lars Leijonborg has promised an inquiry.
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Politics: 25 Jun 07
Sweden's student loan authority, CSN, should be abolished, according to the Centre Party. Instead, the role financing students through their university years should be handed over to banks.
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Politics: 15 Jun 07
Schools Minister Jan Björklund looks certain to become the Liberal Party's next leader, after the party's nominations committee unanimously recommended him for the post.
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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.
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Politics: 22 May 07
Jan Björklund appears ever more likely to become the next leader of the Liberal Party with party branches almost unanimous in their support of his candidacy. Only Gotland deviated from the norm at Monday's branch meetings.
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Politics: 8 May 07
Momentum is building behind Schools Minister Jan Björklund to be the next leader of the Liberal Party, succeeding Lars Leijonborg. Several local party districts have now declared for Björklund.
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Politics: 4 May 07
She's been named by Forbes as one of the hundred most powerful women in the world. Now businesswoman Antonia Ax:son Johnson has been put forward as leader of the Liberal Party.
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Politics: 27 Apr 07
Three people have been convicted over attempts by Liberal Party officials to access the Social Democrats' internal computer network. A further three were cleared, including former party secretary Johan Jakobsson.
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Society: 24 Apr 07
Sweden's education minister wants to wait until Muslim organizations have reached full agreement before introducing a national education programme for trainee imams.
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Politics: 24 Apr 07
Cecilia Malmström has ruled herself out as a candidate to succeed Lars Leijonborg as leader of the Liberal Party. Leijonborg resigned on Monday after ten years in charge.
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Politics: 23 Apr 07
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has said he is sad that Liberal Party leader Lars Leijonborg has resigned, but added that he hoped he would stay on as education minister. Maud Olofsson and Göran Hägglund also praised his contribution.
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Politics: 23 Apr 07
Lars Leijonborg is to resign as Liberal Party leader at the party's conference in September, after ten years in the job. His leadership has come under attack from within the party over recent months.
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Politics: 23 Apr 07
The Liberal Party looks set to come one step closer to ejecting leader Lars Leijonborg. The party's Stockholm district is reportedly set to withdraw its support for the veteran leader.
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Politics: 21 Apr 07
Fredrik Reinfeldt has said he will not debate with Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson. He should not be given one millimetre more publicity, the prime minister said.
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Politics: 13 Apr 07
Liberal Party leader Lars Leijonborg is coming under renewed pressure from members of his own party, with a second party district calling on him to resign.
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Politics: 9 Apr 07
Those involved in the Liberal Party's pre-election spying scandal have their first day in court on Tuesday. Can party leader Lars Leijonborg survive yet another bout of bad publicity?
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Politics: 6 Apr 07
The Centre Party is becoming far too 'new Liberal', warned the Liberals' own party secretary Erik Ullenhag in a recent, highly critical, opinion article. Now he has withdrawn his comments.
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Politics: 6 Apr 07
Three ministers have indicated that newly arrived immigrants and asylum seekers will no longer be free to live where they want. Instead they are to be placed in areas where there are jobs.
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Politics: 28 Mar 07
The move to get rid of wealth tax has been widely welcomed in political and business circles. But union movement LO has said it is "unacceptable" that pension savers will have to pay the price.
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National: 28 Mar 07
Wealth tax will disappear this year, the leaders of the governing Alliance parties have promised in a surprise move.
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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.
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Politics: 21 Feb 07
Education minister Lars Leijonborg wants languages and maths to be worth more than wine studies and manicure courses to college applicants.
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National: 23 Jan 07
Press subsidies should be scrapped, advertising tax should be abolished, and a new national radio news channel should be started, Liberal leader Lars Leijonborg has said.
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National: 2 Jan 07
Two local Liberal Party politicians want to ban the use of languages other than Swedish in Malmö schools. MP Allan Widman points to the city's "very unique situation".
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Science & Technology: 10 Dec 06
Sunday saw the Swedish party of the year: the Nobel banquet. And as usual, genius and royalty took centre stage at the Stockholm celebrations.
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Science & Technology: 7 Dec 06
Sweden is crossing its fingers as the country's first astronaut prepares to head into space. Christer Fuglesang has said his family goodbyes, and is now fully focused on the mission ahead.
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Politics: 13 Nov 06
Sweden's Liberal Party has published the findings of its internal investigation into the party's unauthorized access to the Social Democrats' internal computer network.
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Society: 27 Oct 06
A proposal to charge students from countries outside Europe who want to study at Swedish universities has been met with caution by the higher education establishment.
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Politics: 26 Oct 06
Prosecutors in Stockholm have said they may pursue cases against six current and former officials from the Liberal Party, who are accused of spying on the Social Democrats' internal network.
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Politics: 10 Oct 06
In a move being interpreted as an attempt to rediscover its social-liberal roots, Sweden's Liberal Party on Tuesday appointed Erik Ullenhag as its new party secretary.
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Politics: 7 Oct 06
The appointment of Carl Bildt as foreign minister may have been seen by many as a masterstroke by Fredrik Reinfeldt - but he was not the new prime minister's first choice, it has emerged.
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Politics: 6 Oct 06
Former prime minister Carl Bildt has been named Foreign Minister in the new government presented by Fredrik Reinfeldt. Ten of the 21 new ministers are women, and nine ministers are Moderates.
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Politics: 25 Sep 06
Liberal leader Lars Leijonborg has denied that his party tried to bribe former press secretary Per Jodenius to keep quiet over how much he knew about attempts to spy on Social Democrats.
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Politics: 25 Sep 06
Johan Jakobsson, the Liberal party's former secretary, says that no other senior members of the party knew of the unauthorised access to the Social Democrats' computer network.
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Politics: 23 Sep 06
The Social Democrats' party secretary Marita Ulvskog has said that she regrets comparing Liberal Party leader Lars Leijonborg to a rapist before last weekend's election.
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Politics: 18 Sep 06
Fredrik Reinfeldt is expected to meet speaker Björn von Sydow on Tuesday to be asked to form a government. The Alliance leaders have been meeting to discuss how to deal out ministerial jobs.
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Politics: 18 Sep 06
To cheers of "the Alliance, the Alliance", the four leaders of Sweden's new governing parties took to the stage at the Moderates' election party. "Tomorrow we start building a new Sweden," says Reinfeldt.
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Politics: 17 Sep 06
The four leaders of the opposition Alliance party went against tradition on Sunday as they took to the streets of Stockholm to hand out flowers to voters. Fredrik Reinfeldt says he's taking nothing for granted.
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Politics: 16 Sep 06
Liberal leader Lars Leijonborg says his party has been cast between hope and despair, and notes that the election is closer than any for generations. He also accused the Social Democrats of exploiting the network scandal.
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Politics: 16 Sep 06
The leaders of Sweden's main parties crossed swords in a final televised debate, as they tried to persuade floating voters to tip Sunday's election in their favour. Once again, jobs dominated.
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Politics: 15 Sep 06
Thursday's penultimate party leader debate sees an irritable Göran Persson accusing the Alliance of "unpleasant right-wing policies". Friday's papers were not impressed.
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Politics: 13 Sep 06
The man at the centre of the row over the Liberal Party's unauthorized logins into the Social Democrats' computer network has said party leader Lars Leijonborg did not know about the spying.
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Politics: 8 Sep 06
A journalist from tabloid Expressen has been officially named a suspect in the scandal over unauthorized attempts to log in to the Social Democrats' computer network.
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Politics: 8 Sep 06
Liberal leader Lars Leijonborg faced a grilling following the party's week of scandal. He asked Sweden for forgiveness but maintained he knew nothing about the unauthorized logins to the Social Democrats' network.
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Politics: 7 Sep 06
Liberal Party leader Lars Leijonborg reckons he got lucky when he was picked to be the last of Swedish Television's pre-election leader interviews. On Thursday evening he has the chance to save his shattered party.
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Politics: 6 Sep 06
Moderates leader Fredrik Reinfeldt speaks out for the first time about the Liberal computer scandal. It's serious, he says, but slams Marita Ulvskog for comparing Lars Leijonborg to a rapist.
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Politics: 6 Sep 06
Marita Ulvskog, party secretary for the Social Democrats, said Lars Leijonborg is "acting like a rapist who blames the victim." Feminist Initiative spokeswoman Gudrun Schyman criticizes her choice of words.
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Politics: 6 Sep 06
Lars Leijonborg must take responsibility for the Liberal Party's violation of the Social Democrats' internal computer network, says Social Democrat party secretary Marita Ulvskog.
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Politics: 5 Sep 06
The woes of the Liberals grow, as party secretary Johan Jakobsson becomes the latest victim of the scandal surrounding unauthorized entry into the Social Democrats' network.
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Politics: 5 Sep 06
The Liberal Party's top press officer is now the subject of a criminal investigation over the use of log-in details to gain unauthorized access to the Social Democrats' computer network.
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Politics: 5 Sep 06
Prime minister Göran Persson has said he is 'disgusted' by the attempts of people within the Liberal Party youth movement to access the Social Democrats' internal computer network.
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Politics: 4 Sep 06
The Young Liberals employee who admitted to gaining unauthorized access to the Social Democrats' internal computer network was the organisation's press officer, Per Jodenius, it has emerged.
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Politics: 30 Aug 06
People who want to stay home longer with their children will get more support from the state, in a new agreement from the Alliance launched on Wednesday.
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Politics: 26 Aug 06
Newly refugees will have to sign a personal contract establishing their rights and responsibilities, says integration minister Jens Orback. And if they don't learn Swedish, they won't get paid.
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Politics: 24 Aug 06
Swedish finance minister Pär Nuder has said the government will create more places on job seeker courses and subsidize more jobs, as part of efforts to tackle unemployment.
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Politics: 20 Aug 06
With less than a month to go before the election, the leader of the Liberal Party, Lars Leijonborg, has repeated his demand that no new independent religious schools be opened in Sweden.
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Politics: 18 Aug 06
The Liberal Party has called for more to be done to cut off the finances of organized criminal gangs. Leader Lars Leijonborg also called for stiffer penalties for those involved in organized crime.
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Politics: 18 Aug 06
Poll: Alliance lead extended
The four leaders of the opposition Alliance have criticised the lack of job creation initiatives in the Social Democrats' manifesto.
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Politics: 13 Aug 06
The leader of Sweden's Left Party, Lars Ohly, fiercely attacked the government's foreign and criminal justice policies in a summer speech at the launch of his party's election campaign on Sunday.
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Society: 9 Aug 06
The Swedish employment service manipulates jobless figures to make unemployment look lower, the Alliance says. We've always done it this way, replies employment Minister Hans Karlsson.
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Analysis & Opinion: 8 Aug 06
By the end of September, the four parties of the Alliance could well be ruling Sweden. But how can they ensure success, and how will they govern together if they win? David Stavrou finds out.
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Society: 5 Aug 06
Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund was jeered as party leaders answered questions at Stockholm Pride gay festival. I'm not going to change my message just because I'm here, he said.
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Politics: 23 Jul 06
Liberal leader Lars Leijonborg has confirmed that Fredrik Reinfeldt is the "obvious candidate" to be prime minister if the Alliance forms a government after the election.
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Politics: 21 Jul 06
The leaders of all of Sweden's major parties are heading to Öland on Friday to face questioning from a leading Swedish evangelist. The politicians are also set to sing hymns and join in prayers.
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National: 4 Jul 06
With the Baltic Sea in an ever more parlous state, Sweden's environment minister promises to look into banning the use of phosphorous in washing powders.
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Politics: 3 Jul 06
Göran Persson has kicked off the annual Almedalen political fest on Gotland saying that the Alliance has made a "terrible mistake" by focusing on cuts in unemployment and sick benefits.
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Politics: 18 Jun 06
Support for the Liberal Party has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since May, according to a new poll.
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Politics: 14 Jun 06
The opposition Alliance has said it will increase the effect of remaining nuclear power stations, but will not build any new stations or reopen closed plants, in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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Politics: 9 Jun 06
An Alliance deal over energy policy came one step closer on Friday after the Liberal Party dropped its demand for new nuclear power stations to be built during the next parliament.
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Politics: 23 May 06
The Centre Party's proposal to tackle youth unemployment by making it easier to fire young people was rejected by the other Alliance parties in a televised debate in front of a youthful audience.
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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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