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German ambassador: 'Sweden feels like home'

Analysis & Opinion: 23 May 12
Harald Kindermann, the German ambassador to Sweden, talks to The Local about the importance of the German language, nuclear power, and the legacy of the Stasi. READ »

Swedish opposition to nuclear energy on the up

Science & Technology: 28 Apr 12
Swedes have become more negative towards nuclear power in the year since Japan's nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, a new survey shows. READ »

Red-Greens overtake Alliance government: poll

Politics: 18 Mar 12
The Red-Green opposition has claimed 50.1 percent of the vote in a new poll, with support for the government falling to 43 percent as the Social Democrats continue to recover under new leader Stefan Löfven. READ »

Löfven ready to negotiate over nuclear power

Politics: 13 Feb 12
The new leader of the Social Democrats Stefan Löfven has indicated he's ready to negotiate with the government over the future of nuclear power despite a previous party decision to phase out nuclear energy in Sweden. READ »

Swedish nuclear safety needs improving: report

Science & Technology: 20 Jan 12
Sweden must take measures to increase nuclear plant security against terror attacks, including the introduction of armed guards, according to a new government-sponsored report. READ »

'Uncertainty' over Swedish nuke waste storage: experts

Science & Technology: 17 Dec 11
There are still questions surrounding some important points in the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management's application for final disposition, concluded an international expert group. READ »

'Vacuum cleaner' behind Swedish nuke plant fire

Science & Technology: 13 Nov 11
The fire in reactor 2 at nuclear power plant Ringhals, south of Gothenburg, will cost roughly 1.8 billion kronor ($267 million) in lost profits, reports and was caused by a forgotten vacuum cleaner. READ »

Vattenfall suing Germany over nuke phaseout

Business & Money: 3 Nov 11
Sweden's state-owned energy giant Vattenfall is reportedly planning to file suit against the German government over the closure of its nuclear power plants. READ »

Vattenfall sheds Polish operations

Business & Money: 24 Aug 11
Swedish state-owned energy giant Vattenfall announce don Tuesday that it had reached a deal to sell two subsidiaries in Poland for €1.8 billion ($2.6 billion), signalling its exit from the country. READ »

Vattenfall hit by German nuclear phase out

Business & Money: 28 Jul 11
Swedish state-owned energy concern Vattenfall on Thursday announced a massive net loss in the second quarter, blaming the decision in Germany to phase out nuclear power. READ »

Centre Party should leave alliance: members

Politics: 6 Jul 11
Several leading Centre Party members want to break free of the centre-right government alliance before the next election, in a bid to regain the party's own identity, according to a report in Swedish media. READ »

Vattenfall 'worst' nuclear power firm in Europe

Business & Money: 20 Jun 11
Sweden' state-owned energy company Vattenfall has the worst performance among 27 European nuclear power operators, according to a report from the United Nations energy agency. READ »

Olofsson to resign as Centre Party head

Politics: 17 Jun 11
Enterprise minister Maud Olofsson plans to resign from her position as leader of the Centre Party, according to Swedish media reports. READ »

Vattenfall 'may gain' from German nuclear move

Business & Money: 7 Jun 11
Swedish energy giant Vattenfall may end up benefiting from a recent decision by Germany to ditch nuclear power, according to the company's CEO. READ »

Nuclear weapons threat remains high: study

National: 7 Jun 11
Swedish think tank SIPRI warns in a new report that meaningful nuclear disarmament remains unlikely in the near future, observing that 5,000 nuclear weapons are currently deployed worldwide. READ »

Sweden critical of German nuclear decision

Politics: 30 May 11
Sweden's environment minister Andreas Carlgren has criticised Germany's decision to decommission its nuclear power stations by 2022 as "unrealistic", predicting that it will be forced to import nuclear power from EU partners. READ »

Swedish 'underwater kite' looks to make clean energy waves

Lifestyle: 26 Apr 11
A Swedish company believes a device modeled on a children's toy will make harnessing energy from the world's oceans as easy as flying a kite, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers. READ »

Vattenfall stops German green fund payments

Business & Money: 10 Apr 11
The German subsidiary of Swedish state owned energy company Vattenfall announced plans to stop payments to a German environmental fund due to the German government’s review of its nuclear policy. READ »

Sweden launches review of nuclear security

Science & Technology: 30 Mar 11
Security at Swedish nuclear power stations is set to undergo a comprehensive review following the incidents at the Fukushima plant in Japan, the nuclear industry and the Radiation Safety Authority announced on Wednesday. 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 »

Radiation reaches Sweden from Japan

National: 24 Mar 11
Radioactivity from Japan’s earthquake-hit nuclear power plants has reached Sweden, but the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority says the levels recorded do not pose any danger to people or the environment. READ »

Sweden to check Japan food imports for radiation

Science & Technology: 23 Mar 11
Sweden is to follow an EU recommendation to check all Japanese foodstuffs imported after the March 11th earthquake, the National Food Administration announced on Wednesday. READ »

More Swedes favour nuclear phase out: poll

National: 22 Mar 11
Some 36 percent of Swedes now support a phasing out of nuclear power, more than double the number two years ago and a direct result of the disaster in Japan, a poll showed Tuesday. READ »

Swedes oppose new nuclear power: poll

Science & Technology: 19 Mar 11
The ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan has prompted renewed debate over nuclear power in Sweden, with a new poll indicating that a majority of Swedes are opposed to its expansion. READ »

Sweden to evacuate citizens from Japan

National: 18 Mar 11
The Swedish foreign ministry has offered to fly Swedes and other Scandinavians wishing to leave quake-hit Japan out of the country via Bangkok to escape from the escalating nuclear crisis. READ »

Sweden mulls evacuating citizens from Japan

National: 17 Mar 11
Swedish prime minister said on Thursday the government was working on an evacuation plan for Swedes after the foreign ministry further extended its warning against "non-essential" travel to Japan amid a growing nuclear crisis. READ »

Thinking about Sweden's nuclear future

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Mar 11
Swedish nuclear safety expert Frigyes Reisch from the Royal Institute of Technology speaks with The Local's Gabriel Stein about how the situation in Japan may impact the nuclear energy development in Sweden. READ »

Japan blasts reignite Swedish nuke debate

Politics: 15 Mar 11
The growing nuclear crisis in Japan has breathed new live into Sweden's anti-nuclear movement and prompted politicians to call for a renewed discussion about Sweden nuclear energy policy. READ »

Radiation fears prompt Volvo shut down in Japan

Business & Money: 15 Mar 11
Swedish truckmaker Volvo is shuttering operations of its Japanese subsidiary amid fears of radiation leaking from nuclear plants damaged in last week's devastating tsunami, the company said on Tuesday. READ »

Sweden extends Japan travel warning

National: 15 Mar 11
Following the detection of heightened levels of radiation in Tokyo and surrounding areas, the Swedish foreign ministry has extended its warning against non-essential travel to Japan. READ »

Sweden issues Japan travel warning

National: 13 Mar 11
The Swedish foreign ministry on Sunday issued a recommendation against "non-essential" travel to the earthquake-hit areas of Japan. READ »

Swedes flee Japan amid quake's devastation

National: 12 Mar 11
Many Swedes in Japan are trying to leave the country following Friday's earthquake and tsunami, while the Swedish foreign ministry reported on Saturday it had heard from all the Swedes thought to be in the area worst hit by disaster. READ »

Unsolved Palme murder still hurts after 25 years

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Twenty-five years after Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down in central Stockholm, many Swedes still consider the murder an open wound, the AFP's Nina Larsson discovers. READ »

Sweden launches major nuke accident exercise

National: 2 Feb 11
Sweden's largest-ever crisis management exercise on how to act in the event of a nuclear accident was launched on Wednesday. READ »

Swedish electricity prices hit all time high

Business & Money: 30 Dec 10
The spot price for electricity in Sweden averaged 0.83 kronor per kWh in December, a record high since the deregulation of the electricity market in 1996. READ »

Pricey power threatens Swedish industry: CEO

Business & Money: 10 Dec 10
The head of a Swedish pulp manufacturer forced to shut down production has slammed the country's high energy prices, citing Sweden's lack of energy policy as a threat to the industry. READ »

How Moderate success could doom the Alliance

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Dec 10
While Sweden's Moderate Party enjoys record high support, the struggle by its junior partners for recognition could ultimately spell the end of the four-party centre-right Alliance, contributor Naomi Powell explains. READ »

Reinfeldt backs Moderate party secretary

Politics: 28 Oct 10
Fredrik Reinfeldt has come out in support of the Moderate Party's new party secretary Sofia Arkelsten, while one in four voters think she should step down in the wake of revelations that she accepted several all-expenses paid trips. READ »

Vattenfall keeps German plants despite cost cuts

Business & Money: 21 Sep 10
State-owned energy giant Vattenfall is pursuing a cost-cutting plan involving 6 billion kronor ($862.67 million), but it has ruled out the sale of its much-criticised lignite power plants in Germany, according to CEO Øystein Løseth. READ »

Åkesson waits for party invites to cooperate

Politics: 20 Sep 10
One day after its history entry into parliament, the Sweden Democrats now await an invitation to join a coalition with the other parties. However, so far no parties have contacted leader Jimmie Åkesson. READ »

Left leader makes on-air wedding proposal

Politics: 16 Sep 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly took the opportunity of a televised party leader debate to propose to his long-term girlfriend, Åsa, who accepted the offer. READ »

Introducing the Greens

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Green Party, bidding to assume power within the centre-left Red-Green coalition and become Sweden's third largest party. READ »

Introducing the Liberals

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Liberal Party, bidding to retain power and regain their place as third largest party in Swedish politics. READ »

Government slammed on environment policy

Politics: 25 Aug 10
The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) has in a new report criticised the government for having "gone backwards" in several key environmental issues, arguing that the smaller parties have had to defer to the Moderates. READ »

Support for new nuclear reactors grows: survey

Politics: 10 Jul 10
A decision in Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, to allow old nuclear reactors to be replaced has broad support among Swedes, according to a survey presented by the Liberal Party. READ »

Heightened security urged at nuclear plant

National: 2 Jul 10
Swedish authorities on Friday called for tighter security at Forsmark nuclear power station, a day after Greenpeace activists were issued with fines for breaking into the plant in June. READ »

Court fines Greenpeace nuclear activists

National: 1 Jul 10
A Swedish court on Thursday fined 29 Greenpeace activists who broke into a nuclear power plant earlier this month. READ »

Nuclear vote condemned as activists face trial

National: 18 Jun 10
Environmental group Greenpeace has condemned the Swedish parliament vote in favour of the construction of new nuclear reactors, as activists went on trial for illegal trespass at the Forsmark plant north of Stockholm this week. READ »

Sweden approves new nuclear reactors

Politics: 17 Jun 10
Sweden's parliament on Thursday narrowly passed a landmark government proposal allowing the replacement of nuclear reactors at the end of their life span. READ »

Activists arrested after nuclear plant breach

National: 14 Jun 10
Police have arrested 50 Greenpeace activists who broke into Forsmark nuclear power plant in eastern Sweden on Monday, demanding that parliament vote against the building of new nuclear facilities. READ »

Nuclear plant heads propose armed security

National: 3 Jun 10
The heads of Sweden's nuclear power plants have called for the installation of armed rapid reaction forces to be put in place in order to increase security. READ »

Opposition outlines billion kronor tax hike

Politics: 28 Apr 10
The left-green opposition has proposed the raising of environmental taxes by a total of 11 billion kronor ($1.52 billion) over the coming two years, as well as reintroducing wealth taxes to raise a further four billion per annum. READ »

Sweden plans 2,000 wind turbines

Politics: 2 Mar 10
The Swedish government has announced plans for the construction of 2,000 wind turbines over the next ten years. READ »

Sweden's top ten tasty buns

Lifestyle: 16 Feb 10
It’s Fettisdag, Fat Tuesday, the day known in English as Shrovetide, Pancake Tuesday and, er, Mardi Gras. In Sweden, the day is synonymous with the creamy semla, one of many fine buns that make this country great. READ »

Taxes and jobs dominate party leader debate

Politics: 1 Feb 10
Sunday's televised debate between the five leaders of Sweden's major political parties was dominated by taxes and labour market policy, while exposing divisions within the opposing blocs. READ »

'Hire non-Swedes for sensitive posts': Säpo

Business & Money: 7 Dec 09
Swedish security service Säpo wants to make it easier for foreign nationals to fill sensitive positions within the Swedish state as part of a “necessary modernization”. READ »

Liberals call for lower taxes at party congress

Politics: 20 Nov 09
Liberal party leader Jan Björklund has rallied members during a speech at the party conference in Växjö calling for lower taxes, developments in nuclear power production and for Sweden to adopt the euro as its currency. READ »

Pressure mounts on Vattenfall CEO

Business & Money: 13 Nov 09
The Seko union has announced its withdrawal from the board of Swedish state-owned energy firm Vattenfall stating that it no longer has confidence in the company's CEO, Lars G Josefsson. READ »

Vattenfall to sell Swedish power grid: report

Business & Money: 11 Nov 09
Swedish state-owned power company Vattenfall wants to sell its Swedish electricity network to bring in funds for investment in nuclear power in Britain. READ »

Vattenfall mulls new Swedish nuke plants

Business & Money: 30 Oct 09
Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall on Friday unveiled plans which could result in the construction of a new nuclear power station. READ »

Pakistan Swedes arrive home

National: 11 Oct 09
The four Swedes deported from Pakistan arrived at Stockholm Arlanda airport late on Saturday night. They were met by plain clothes police and appeared tired from their ordeal. READ »

Terror suspect Swedes freed from Pakistan

National: 10 Oct 09
The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed that four Swedish citizens, arrested in Pakistan in August as terrorist suspects, have been released and put on a flight to Stockholm. READ »

Pakistan to free Swede held in terror probe

National: 7 Oct 09
The 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son, who have been imprisoned in Pakistan since August, are to be released “shortly”, according to the Swedish foreign ministry. READ »

Nuclear plant rapped over safety

Science & Technology: 3 Aug 09
Safety procedures at the Forsmark nuclear power plant in eastern Sweden have been criticised by inspectors, according to reports. READ »

Poster exhibition portrays glory days of 'progg'

Lifestyle: 13 Jul 09
The Local's Lydia Parafianowicz chats with Swedish musician Håkan Agnsäter, who has loaned out his auspicious poster collection to the Nordic Museum in Stockholm. READ »

More safety concerns for Vattenfall reactor in Germany

Business & Money: 10 Jul 09
Sweden’s Vattenfall suffered another setback on Thursday as the company announced it would carry out additional checks of suspected faulty fuel rods at a nuclear power station it operates in Germany. READ »

Sweden's biggest nuke plant under observation

Science & Technology: 8 Jul 09
Nuclear officials ruled on Wednesday to place the Ringhals plant in southwestern Sweden under observation following several recent incidents that risk jeopardizing security. READ »

Vattenfall suffers German nuclear setback

Business & Money: 8 Jul 09
Swedish energy company Vattenfall has been rocked by news that one of its major nuclear power plants in Germany is to be taken out of operation for almost a year following a safety scare at the weekend. READ »

Agency reacts to nuke plant safety lapses

Science & Technology: 7 Jul 09
Safety officials in Sweden may put one of the country’s nuclear power plants under special supervision following a number of safety violations. READ »

Vattenfall takeover of Dutch utility wins shareholder approval

Business & Money: 18 Jun 09
Swedish power company Vattenfall’s €8.5 billion ($12 billion) friendly takeover of Dutch utility Nuon was approved by Nuon shareholders on Wednesday. READ »

Ex-member arrested in Riksdag chamber

Politics: 17 Jun 09
Green Party politician Ewa Larsson, a former member of parliament who currently sits on the board of the Stockholm County police department, was arrested in the Riksdag on Tuesday. READ »

Östhammar wins bid to store nuclear waste

Science & Technology: 3 Jun 09
The eastern Swedish town of Östhammar has seen off rival bidder Oskarshamn and secured a lucrative deal to store nuclear waste for the next 100,000 years. READ »

Sweden poised to bury nuclear waste for 100,000 years

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jun 09
Two towns in eastern Sweden are competing to be the first in the world to store nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years, writes AFP's Pia Ohlin. READ »

Opposition wants end to nuclear power

Politics: 22 Mar 09
The three opposition parties have announced their intention to phase out Sweden's nuclear power capacity if they were to win the next election in 2010. READ »

Man dies at nuclear power station

National: 15 Mar 09
A 61-year-old man died while working on the O3 nuclear reactor at Oskarshamn nuclear power station in southern Sweden on Sunday morning. READ »

Alliance parties close on opposition: poll

Politics: 28 Feb 09
The huge lead long enjoyed by the tri-partite opposition in Swedish politics has been almost completely eroded as the Alliance parties continue to gain voter support, a new poll shows. READ »

Break down in talks on Swedish energy policy

Politics: 27 Feb 09
Joint talks on Sweden’s future energy policy between the government and the opposition have been called off, energy minister Maud Olofsson announced on Thursday. READ »

Vattenfall buys Dutch energy company

Business & Money: 23 Feb 09
Sweden’s Vattenfall announced Monday it has offered €8.5 billion ($10.9 billion) for Netherlands-based Nuon in a deal that would “create a leading European energy company”. READ »

Most Swedes favour more nuclear power

Politics: 13 Feb 09
As energy policy talks between the government and opposition parties continue, a new poll shows that six of ten Swedes are in favour of building new nuclear power plants. READ »

Voters back nuclear energy agreement: poll

Politics: 7 Feb 09
Seven out of ten voters back an agreement to reverse a decision to phase out the country's 10 nuclear reactors, announced by the four parties of Sweden's centre-right governing Alliance on Thursday. READ »

Sweden in nuclear energy reversal

Politics: 5 Feb 09
The four parties of Sweden's centre-right governing Alliance on Thursday announced they had reached an agreement to reverse a decision to phase out the country's 10 nuclear reactors. READ »

Nuke plant faulted for using janitors as guards

Science & Technology: 31 Oct 08
A decision by management of Sweden’s Oskarshamn nuclear power plant to have custodial workers stand in as guards has drawn a sharp rebuke from the country’s nuclear regulatory authority. READ »

'Sloppy security' at Forsmark nuclear plant

National: 6 Sep 08
Forsmark nuclear power plant has been criticized by the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) for sloppy security after it found that an emergency cooling system vent had been shut for a year. READ »

Fire at Swedish nuclear power plant

National: 11 Jul 08
A fire broke out on Friday on the roof of a turbine hall at a nuclear power plant on Sweden's west coast but was quickly extinguished and the reactor was never in danger, the plant said. READ »

Key nuke evidence stuck in the mail

National: 28 May 08
Police investigating last week's security incident at the Oskarshamn nuclear power are at odds over a decision to send the key piece of evidence by regular mail. READ »

Nuclear sabotage suspects released

National: 22 May 08
Two men being held on suspicions of preparing acts of sabotage against the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant have been released. READ »

No explosives found at nuclear plant

National: 22 May 08
Swedish bomb experts have not found any traces of explosives at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant after two men were arrested on suspicion of sabotage. READ »

Two arrests in nuke plant bomb plot

National: 21 May 08
Two Swedish contractors were arrested on Wednesday suspected of preparing to sabotage the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in southern Sweden, police said. READ »

Swedish-UK nuke power deal goes bust

Business & Money: 2 May 08
So far the Swedish government has kept pretty quiet about the state-owned energy company Vattenfall’s plans to buy up British Energy, a nuclear power company. READ »

Green Party policies fail to tackle emissions

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Apr 08
Just because a party calls itself Green doesn't necessarily mean it has the most environmentally friendly policies, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank. READ »

Support rises for new nuclear plants in Sweden

Politics: 21 Jan 08
Young Social Democrats play dead in a nuclear protest. But a new poll shows rising support for nuclear power. READ »

Sweden protests over EU emission targets

Science & Technology: 20 Jan 08
Sweden is protesting at EU plans to ask it to cut CO2 emissions to 50 percent of 1990 levels. Years of efforts to cut emission are not being taken into account, it says. READ »

Vattenfall removes new chief

National: 8 Dec 07
The head of Vattenfall Europe, an arm of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall, will be replaced after just four months in the post. READ »

Nuclear reactors given 38 more years to live

Science & Technology: 27 Nov 07
Sweden's nuclear power stations may survive longer than was previously imagined. READ »

Volvo in nuclear energy retreat

Business & Money: 12 Oct 07
Truck maker Volvo has announced that it will cease buying Swedish nuclear power at the end of this year. READ »

Swedish journalists 'more left-wing than public'

Politics: 26 Sep 07
Swedish journalists' views diverge wildly from those of their readers, with the average journalist more left-wing than the public as a whole, according to a new Gothenburg University survey. READ »

German Vattenfall boss resigns over nuclear incidents

Business & Money: 18 Jul 07
The head of the German arm of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall, has offerd to resign following a series of incidents at two of the group's nuclear power plants in Germany. READ »

Vattenfall boss fired over nuclear incidents

Business & Money: 16 Jul 07
The head of Vattenfall European Nuclear Energy has been fired after incidents at two nuclear plants in northern Germany. READ »

Vattenfall offices searched in German probe

Business & Money: 13 Jul 07
Swedish energy giant Vattenfall has had its offices searched by police in northern Germany as part of a probe into a fire at a nuclear power plant late last month. READ »

Vattenfall slammed for nuclear 'cover-up'

Science & Technology: 8 Jul 07
German authorities have blasted Swedish energy giant Vattenfall Europe for waiting several days to declare problems at a nuclear power plant in northern Germany. Vattenfall has denied a cover-up. READ »


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