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'We'll have a decision on Friday': Jämtin

Politics: 23 Jan 12
No concrete decision about the future leadership of the Social Democrats will be made until Friday, party secretary Carin Jämtin announced on Monday afternoon, as speculation mounted about who might take over following Håkan Juholt's resignation. 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 »

Social Democrats plumb new poll depths

Politics: 22 Jan 12
As the Social Democrats begin the search for a new leader after Håkan Juholt's resignation, an opinion poll conducted prior to the dramatic events on Saturday show the party at its lowest ebb since the 1960s. READ »

Swedish cop filmed naked female colleagues

National: 29 Dec 11
A Swedish police commissioner has been suspended after it was revealed that he had secretly filmed female officers in the nude with a video camera hidden inside a locker in the station's changing room. READ »

'Tattoo' star Rooney Mara laughs off 'bush' wig

Society: 16 Dec 11
Rooney Mara, who portrays hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander in the Hollywood remake of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” has made light of the measures taken to ensure the star's hirsute nether regions were also in character for the film. READ »

Marking the death of Sweden's 'TV oak'

Society: 25 Nov 11
An old oak tree standing in a boulevard outside the Sveriges Television (SVT) building in Stockholm was cut down on Thursday morning, following weeks of protests over the fate of what quickly became Sweden’s most famous piece of vegetation READ »

Summing up Stockholm Fashion Week 2011

Lifestyle: 17 Aug 11
As fashionistas in the Swedish capital settle down after a frenetic Stockholm Fashion Week, The Local's Caroline Bursell takes a look back at some of the event's highlights. READ »

Sex and the human form - Robert Mapplethorpe raises eyebrows

Lifestyle: 12 Jul 11
US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is the subject of a major new exhibition at Stockholm’s Fotografiska museum which recently fell foul of the social media censor, contributor Katherine Dunn paid a visit to see what all the fuss is about. READ »

Swedish museum takes aim at Facebook censor

Society: 27 Jun 11
Fotografiska, a contemporary photography museum in Stockholm, has elected to censor its own promotional material for an upcoming exhibition featuring Robert Mapplethorpe to draw attention to Facebook's strict nudity ban. READ »

Naked baby grad sign reported for child porn

Society: 14 Jun 11
A sign featuring a naked baby picture of a graduating student in southern Sweden so offended a bystander that it was reported to authorities for violating Sweden's laws prohibiting child pornography. READ »

Male lust/female vice? Swedish museum touts sex through the ages

Lifestyle: 15 Apr 11
While the National Museum's new "Lust & Vice" exhibition has titillated the viewing public, it has incurred the scorn of an art world used to seeing sex exploited for financial gain, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson writes. READ »

Swedish nude gets Facebook axe

Society: 23 Mar 11
A painting by Anders Zorn, one of Sweden's most prized painters, has fallen foul of Facebook's zero tolerance policy for its depiction of a naked woman in a loft. READ »

Understanding the Social Democrats' leadership crisis

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Mar 11
The Swedish Social Democrats' selection of a replacement for outgoing party leader Mona Sahlin has turned into the most acute crisis in the party's history, political scientist Nicholas Aylott explains. READ »

Social Democrat party secretary to quit

Politics: 6 Mar 11
The Social Democrats’ party secretary Ibrahim Baylan announced on Sunday that he plans to leave his post at the party’s extra congress at the end of March. READ »

Politician on trial for nude Muhammad poster

National: 3 Mar 11
A Swedish politician facing charges for producing a poster depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad naked together with his nine-year-old wife was found not guilty by a jury in Malmö on Wednesday. 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 »

Hunt for new Social Democrat leader begins

Politics: 24 Jan 11
The Social Democrats' 26 party districts spent the weekend having their say on who should lead the party by formulating the requirements for outgoing leader Mona Sahlin's successor. READ »

'Nothing wrong' with naked Swedish farm student video

Education: 22 Nov 10
An internet video featuring naked Swedish high school students frolicking with farm animals and riding tractors on school property is no big deal, according to the school’s principal. 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 »

Swedish woman killed in Florida murder-suicide

National: 23 Oct 10
A Swedish woman killed by her husband in Florida in a murder-suicide on October 15th had told authorities one month earlier that his swinging lifestyle had led to physical and mental abuse. READ »

Three naked German women found in woods

National: 2 Aug 10
A search party was called off in southern Sweden on Sunday as three naked German women lost in the woods eventually managed to relocate their holiday home without the aid of a police helicopter or sniffer dogs. READ »

Naked horn player named Sweden's Water Fairy of the Year

Society: 21 Jul 09
A nude saxophone player surprised four similarly dressed violinists in northwestern Sweden to claim victory as the year’s best incarnation of a water fairy, a mythical creature from ancient Swedish folklore. READ »

Swede charged for soliciting nude pics from pre-teen girls

National: 10 Jul 09
An Uppsala University education student has been charged for requesting nude pictures over the internet from hundreds of underage girls across Sweden. READ »

Paedophile found guilty of webcam sex crimes

National: 9 Jul 09
A Swedish court has ruled that a 32-year-old father of two is guilty of having used threats to force more than 60 young girls to pose nude for him in front of their webcams. READ »

Paedophile charged for webcam sex crimes

National: 29 May 09
A man who allegedly threatened to kill dozens of girls if they didn’t pose nude for him in front of a webcam was charged on Friday by the district court in Uppsala. READ »

Woman charged over seduction of pupil

Society: 25 Mar 09
A teacher in Kungsbacka in western Sweden has been indicted on charges of sexual harassment after allegedly sending nude photos and trying to seduce a 16-year-old pupil. READ »

Swedish cops 'baked cake' in the nude

National: 14 Mar 09
The nine Swedish cops in western Sweden that posed naked with a weapon at a party, frolicked in the nude on several more occasions, it has emerged. READ »

Outrage over politican's high-priced home rental

Society: 5 Mar 09
A Social Democratic politician and former Swedish reality TV star has sparked a backlash over plans to charge what many characterized as exorbitant fees for the rental of two separate properties. READ »

Nude Swedish cops back in action

National: 24 Feb 09
A group of nine newly trained riot police who posed naked with service weapons in their hands at a graduation party have been allowed to return to active police service. 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 »

Probe to follow naked Swedish police party

National: 9 Feb 09
The presence of a male stripper and pictures of naked police officers brandishing their service weapons have prompted an investigation of a party thrown for members of the Gothenburg police force. READ »

Sweden quizzed over underage nude film acquittal

National: 23 Jan 09
The European Court of Human Rights is taking Sweden to task over its privacy laws after a man escaped without conviction despite secretly filming his 14-year-old stepdaughter in the shower. READ »

Spring fashion: Frills, thrills and jumpsuits

Lifestyle: 4 Dec 08
The weather might be bleak outside, but that's no excuse not to start planning your spring wardrobe as Jennifer Heape rounds up the hot trends for the new year. READ »

Noise and nudity top Swedish list of neighbour no-nos

Society: 31 Oct 08
Swedes would rather live next to sex-crazed exhibitionists than rambunctious party animals, according to a new study, which also lists mean old ladies as the least desirable neighbours of all. 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 »

Swedish man fined for putting nude pics of wife on porn site

Society: 9 Sep 08
A 40-year-old man from Medelpad in northern Sweden has been convicted for gross slander for secretly putting nude photos of his wife on pornographic websites. READ »

Nuder wrote book rather than casting Riksdag votes

Politics: 31 Jul 08
Former Social Democratic finance minister Pär Nuder is facing questions for having written a book while still drawing his salary as a member of the Riksdag. READ »

Politician resigns over 'naked Jesus' exhibition

Politics: 19 Jun 08
A local Moderate Party politician has resigned over the upcoming 'Ecce Homo' exhibition in Örnsköldsvik, northern Sweden. READ »

Swedish justice: A matter of interpretation

Analysis & Opinion: 26 May 08
As a growing array of languages jostle for position in the towns and suburbs of Sweden, Faisal Enayat Khan examines some linguistic shortcomings in the country's legal system. READ »

Plenty to see at nudist B&B

Travel: 13 May 08
A couple of avid naturists in southern Sweden have revealed plans to begin catering for like-minded tourists at a picturesque farm near the village of Skurup. READ »

Commander tried to suppress film of naked shooting

National: 12 May 08
The highest officer in a Swedish amphibious military unit is accused of trying to cover up an incident in which new conscripts fired shoulder mounted artillery cannons while in the nude. READ »

Witnessing Eurovision nightmares in a Gothenburg downpour

Travel: 28 Apr 08
In his book Cycling Back to Happiness, English journalist Bernie Friend covers 6,000 kilometres of northern Europe on a bicycle in a bid to overcome his paranoia. In the last of our three excerpts, Bernie and his pal Rhys get unexpectedly Eurovisioned in Gothenburg. READ »

Elaborate sex pic scam nets boy thousands

National: 11 Apr 08
A 16-year-old con artist who used nude pictures to empty his victims’ bank accounts has been sentenced to community service. READ »

Teacher accused of sending nude pics to seduce student

National: 7 Apr 08
A teenage student in possession of sexually explicit photos of his Swedish school teacher claims the woman was trying to seduce him. READ »

Boys convicted for distributing nude video of classmate

National: 3 Mar 08
Two teenage boys have been convicted of slander and sentenced to community service for distributing a nude video of a classmate. 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 »

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 »

Sahlin set to ditch Nuder

Politics: 24 Jan 08
Finance Minister Pär Nuder is expected to be asked to step down from his position as economic spokesman for his party. READ »

Man spread nude video of 15-year-old girl

National: 2 Nov 07
An 18-year-old man has been convicted of aggravated libel after sending a nude video of his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend to hundreds of people over the internet. 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 »

Swedish teens tricked friend into posing nude for webcam

National: 1 Oct 07
Careful before you disrobe in front of your web camera - you never know who may be at the other end. Seven teenagers were found guilty on Monday of tricking a classmate into posing naked for films which were then uploaded onto the internet. READ »

Budget focuses on jobs and the environment

Politics: 20 Sep 07
Benefit cuts, more money to bring down Sweden's CO2 emissions, and tax cuts aimed at the low paid. These were the highlights of Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg's second budget, which he presented on Thursday. READ »

Liberal leader-in-waiting calls for ageism ban

National: 4 Sep 07
The Liberal Party's upcoming leader Jan Björklund has called for a ban on age discrimination in Sweden. Using the phrase "meat mountain" to describe the older generation is not helpful, he says. READ »

Ingmar Bergman dead

National: 30 Jul 07
Legendary Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89. He died at his home on the island of Fårö, his daughter Eva Bergman told news agency TT. READ »

Student berated for nude pics

Society: 14 May 07
Gothenburg University has been reported to the Justice Ombudsman after staff castigated a student who posed for a pornographic magazine. READ »

Naked motorbike man on the loose

National: 4 May 07
Police in southern Sweden are chasing up reports of a nude biker spotted driving around the town of Höör at lunchtime on Friday. READ »

Nude smoker allowed to stay in home

National: 17 Apr 07
A woman who sunbathed and smoked in the nude outside the apartment block in which she lived cannot be evicted, despite the protests of neighbours, a court rules. READ »

Jobs dominate spring budget

Politics: 16 Apr 07
Finance Minister Anders Borg's spring budget meets with mixed reactions. "Irresponsible, unjust and outdated," said Pär Nuder. But business lends the budget its cautious support. READ »

Introducing...Runar Sögaard

Lifestyle: 10 Apr 07
It takes a special kind of man to be an Pentacostal preacher, a tireless Stockholm socialite and Carola's ex-husband. But Runar Sögaard takes it all in his stride, as Paul O'Mahony explains. READ »

Sweden gets a dose of liberalism

Politics: 8 Apr 07
Sweden's election of a centre-right government in September has led to a whole host of reforms to nudge the country away from its high tax, high spend traditions, as Delphine Toitou reports. 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 »

Social Democrats 'cannot reverse benefit cuts'

Politics: 16 Mar 07
The government's cuts in benefits and taxes cannot be reversed by an incoming Social Democratic government, former finance minister Pär Nuder has written in a secret memo. READ »

Introducing...Victoria Silvstedt

Lifestyle: 26 Feb 07
The Local takes a long, lingering look at Victoria Silvstedt, the former child skiing star now known worldwide for her frequent lapses into semi-nudity. READ »

'Sahlin will lead Social Democrats'

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Jan 07
Sweden's Social Democrats are looking for a new leader and Mona Sahlin seems to be the front runner. The Local asked political expert Stig-Björn Ljunggren to help us size up the contenders. READ »

LO takes benefits battle to the streets

Politics: 14 Dec 06
Sweden's largest trade union confederation, LO, is today staging nationwide demonstrations to protest the government's controversial new unemployment insurance reforms. READ »

Next Social Democrat chief 'need not be a woman'

Politics: 27 Oct 06
While many senior figures in the Social Democratic Party are insisting that the next leader must be a woman, local party representatives say they don't care – as long as he or she wins the next election. READ »

Hunt for Persson's successor begins

Politics: 21 Oct 06
Former foreign minister and deputy prime minister Lena Hjelm-Wallén has been tasked with finding a successor to Göran Persson, who will step down as party leader in March. READ »

Jobs dominate Borg's first budget

Politics: 16 Oct 06
The battle to generate jobs was at the top of the government's agenda, finance minister Anders Borg made clear as he presented his first budget on Monday. READ »

Social Democrats announce 'shadow government'

Politics: 8 Oct 06
The defeated Social Democrats have reorganized for opposition, appointing former ministers to lead the party's charge in the parliamentary committees. READ »

Borg a surprise choice as finance minister

Business & Money: 6 Oct 06
The choice of the Moderates' chief economist Anders Borg as Sweden's new finance minister has proven a surprise, although largely a positive one, for many analysts. READ »

Five charged over nude slaughterhouse pics

National: 27 Sep 06
Five young Swedes decided to photograph themselves nude in their workplace for fun. Alas, their workplace was a slaughterhouse and on Tuesday they were charged with breaking food hygiene laws. READ »

Israeli officials "dance a jig" over Alliance win

National: 22 Sep 06
Sweden's change of government is reported to have caused delight in the Israeli government, which saw the Social Democrats as extra-critical of the Jewish state. But a Green MP says things won't change much. READ »

Wallström: I don't want the job

Politics: 21 Sep 06
She's the runaway favourite among party members to be the next Social Democrat leader and take the party back to government, but there's one problem: Margot Wallström doesn't want the job. READ »

Swedish government: our job forecast is right

Politics: 28 Aug 06
The unemployment numbers don't add up and the benefit figures don't exist. But the Swedish government denies that it's hiding anything. "Our description of the reality is the right one," says industry minister Thomas Östros. READ »

Social Democrats plan new job schemes

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. READ »

Nuder: no big tax cuts

Politics: 16 Aug 06
Finance minister Pär Nuder told Swedes that they couldn't expect any significant tax cuts if the Social Democrats win the next election. But he said the economy was in good shape. READ »

Suspicion over Persson's growth prediction

Politics: 11 Aug 06
Swedish economic growth results were leaked to officials in the Ministry of Finance several days in advance. Now opposition politicians suspect that the secret figures were mentioned by prime minister Göran Persson in a speech. READ »

Nuder promises property tax freeze

Politics: 8 Aug 06
First the Alliance promised to abolish the unpopular property tax. Now the government has been forced to react, with Pär Nuder saying he'll freeze the tax for two years if the Social Democrats win the election. READ »

Swedish growth highest since 2000

Business & Money: 7 Aug 06
The Swedish economy is growing faster than at any time since 2000, according to new figures from Statistics Sweden. Household spending is up, exports are rising, and even tourism has increased. READ »

'Group sex' protests over Swedish nudist beach

Society: 20 Jul 06
Local residents near a nudist beach in Laholm, in southern Sweden, have complained to the council about the "white butts bouncing up and down", alleging that the beach has become a haven for group sex. READ »

Phophorous 'could be banned from detergents'

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. READ »

Alliance to abolish property tax

Politics: 4 Jul 06
The opposition Alliance has agreed to do away with property tax if it wins September's general election. The tax would be frozen next year, and gradually abolished altogether. READ »

Weathergirl in nude pics storm

Society: 21 Jun 06
Norwegian weathergirl Tone Bekkestad has been banned from screens by employer TV4 after showing too much warm front in a magazine spread about 'Sweden's best-looking women'. READ »

Protagonist or puritan? The truth about Sweden and porn

Lifestyle: 13 May 06
Sweden’s reputation as the first country of filth is one of those lingering stereotypes. Like high taxes. But whilst there’s no denying the latter, what truth really is there in the triple X typecast? The Local’s Christine Demsteader investigates. READ »

'Naked skydivers' article was hoax

National: 12 May 06
Journalists at Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet are left red-faced after a "sly hoaxter" persuades them that Stockholm skydivers had jumped naked over the city. READ »

Persson launches May 1st assault on Alliance

Politics: 1 May 06
The Social Democrats' big guns, including the prime minister, were firing at May 1st meets around Sweden. And they all had the conservative alliance and Swedish business in their sights. READ »

Swedish finance minister delivers 'budget of reforms'

Politics: 18 Apr 06
An evidently satisfied Pär Nuder declares that things are improving for Sweden and promises a wave of reforms. But opposition politicians are far from satisfied, slamming the budget's lack of real structural changes. READ »

Students benefit from spring budget

Politics: 5 Apr 06
The government presents its spring budget proposals with the blessing of the Left Party and the Greens. But only after overnight negotiations over how much extra cash students should be awarded. READ »

Young people stand to gain from budget proposals

Politics: 4 Apr 06
Students and the young unemployed stand to gain as finance minister, Pär Nuder, acknowledges the wishes of the Greens and Left party in the spring budget negotiations. READ »

Analysis: tsunami response - who didn't do what

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Mar 06
In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami tragedy, Swedes on the ground in Thailand were vocal in their criticism of the lack of assistance from the Swedish government. Now a parliamentary committee has delivered its verdict. READ »

Tsunami committee slams ministers

Politics: 30 Mar 06
ANALYSIS: WHO DIDN'T DO WHAT
The inquiry by the parliamentary constitution committee into the Swedish government's response to the tsunami disaster closed on Thursday with damning criticism of six ministers, including prime minister Göran Persson. READ »

Government plans to cut property tax

Politics: 29 Mar 06
The government's spring budget negotiations with its coalition partners, the Left Party and the Greens, begin on Wednesday amid rumours that a cut in property tax is planned. READ »

Sweden sued for property tax rule

National: 19 Mar 06
Sweden is being taken to court by the European Commission, which objects to the rule that allows people to postpone paying capital gains tax when they sell their homes. READ »

Swedish opposition laments 'jobless growth'

Politics: 16 Mar 06
Sweden's finance minister, Pär Nuder, predicts strong growth for the next two years. "Unfortunately Sweden is the world leader in jobless growth," says the opposition. READ »

Swedish police chief quits in nude pics storm

National: 17 Feb 06
A senior Swedish police officer resigns after posting "nude pictures" of himself on a dating site last week. In no defence of himself whatsoever, he claims he was in fact wearing skimpy blue trunks. READ »

Nuder: Sweden heading for higher growth

Business & Money: 30 Jan 06
Sweden's economy will grow by more than 3.5 percent this year, finance minister Pär Nuder has said. He now believes predictions he made last year were too pessimistic. READ »

No drop in alcohol tax - Nuder

Politics: 27 Jan 06
Plans for sharply reduced alcohol tax have been shelved by Sweden's finance minister Pär Nuder. He can't get support in parliament for the proposals, he claims. READ »

Persson promises more cash to students and elderly

Politics: 18 Jan 06
In the first party leader debate of the election year, Prime Minister Göran Persson announces increases in study support and care for the elderly. But, as opposition leader Fredrik Reinfeldt points out, he didn't mention jobs. READ »

New problem with stolen number plates

National: 17 Jan 06
Car owners who have never so much as set foot in central Stockholm have nevertheless received demands to pay the congestion charge. Their number plates have been stolen and photographed on another car passing a payment point. READ »


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