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Left Party veteran Lars Werner dead

Politics: 12 Jan 13
The former leader of Sweden's Left Party has died at the age of 77 after suffering from heart problems. READ »

Sweden 'helped US bomb Iraq in 2003': report

Politics: 3 Sep 12
Swedish military intelligence provided the United States with data on bombing targets in Bagdad ahead a 2003 attack on the Iraqi capital, despite the Swedish government's opposition to the US invasion, US military documents reveal. READ »

Swedish police apologise for Roma tweet

Society: 24 Jul 12
Stockholm police have apologised for tweeting the words "Romani appearance" on an official Twitter account in connection with a reported theft on Sunday. READ »

Sweden's Left: singing the same old song?

Politics: 6 Jul 12
Jonas Sjöstedt, the fresh face of the Left Party, was expected to use Almedalen to show he was taking the party in a new direction, but correspondent and commentator David Linden was left unconvinced the new party leader managed to do so. READ »

Sjöstedt chosen as new Left Party leader

Politics: 6 Jan 12
Jonas Sjöstedt was chosen to replace Lars Ohly as the new leader of Sweden's Left Party when the congress voted on Friday. READ »

Sweden's Greens continue to climb in polls

Politics: 18 Dec 11
Support for Sweden's Green Party rose to 12.3 percent, yet another record-high result, while the Social Democrats hit a new low in research institute Sifo's December poll. READ »

Left Party proposes Sjöstedt as new leader

Politics: 10 Dec 11
Sweden's Left Party's nomination committee suggested Jonas Sjöstedt take over as the party's new leader from Lars Ohly, who won't run for re-election in January. READ »

Left Party rejects shared leadership

Politics: 5 Nov 11
Top brass with Sweden’s Left Party, Vänsterpartiet, has said ‘no’ to a shared party leadership on the grounds of a current well-working organization. The party’s congress must now decide who will succeed Lars Ohly. READ »

'It's dangerous to disregard experience'

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 11
As Sweden's politicians return to business at the Riksdag after a period of party-leadership reshuffling, The Local's Rebecca Martin examines concerns that youth has begun to trump experience in Swedish politics. READ »

New Left Party head hard to predict: poll

Politics: 4 Sep 11
The battle for the position as new Left Party leader is going to be a close one, and introducing dual leadership is gaining popularity, a recent survey shows. READ »

'Reinfeldt unclear on terror': Ohly

Politics: 14 Aug 11
Resigning Left Party head Lars Ohly criticised prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in his traditional summer speech on Saturday, accusing Reinfeldt of holding a weak standpoint in the battle against racism, islamophobia, and xenophobia. READ »

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

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

Ohly quits as Left leader

Politics: 9 Aug 11
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has informed the nominating committee that he won't stand for the post when the party elects a new leader during its 2012 congress. READ »

Linde challenges Ohly for Left Party post

Politics: 4 Aug 11
The leadership battle for the Left Party has intensified after the party's foreign policy spokesperson Hans Linde announced his intention to challenge current leader Las Ohly for the post. READ »

Growing demands for Ohly to step down

Politics: 5 Jul 11
A growing number of leading Left Party members want to see the party's head, Lars Ohly, step down before the next election in 2014. Over half of district leaders want a new head, according to a Swedish newspaper report. READ »

Reinfeldt and Juholt spar in first debate

Politics: 15 Jun 11
The leaders of Sweden’s two largest political parties clashed for the first time on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt warning that pressure from opposition parties on the right and left were pushing his minority government towards crisis. READ »

Sweden reaches new deal on Libya mission

National: 8 Jun 11
The Swedish government has reached an agreement with the Social Democrats and the Green Party to extend the country's military mission in Libya. READ »

Broad political backing of Gripen deployment

Politics: 30 Mar 11
The Left party agreed Wednesday to vote through the government proposal to send fighters to Libya, while continuing to support the Social Democrat line restricting Sweden's involvement. READ »

Swedish house backs Libya involvement

Politics: 21 Mar 11
The Swedish government can count on the broad support in parliament to send JAS Gripen aircraft to assist the UN-backed Libyan operation, with only the Sweden Democrats expressing a dissenting opinion. READ »

Swedish Left looks to halt privatised healthcare

Business & Money: 2 Mar 11
Sweden's Left Party has set its sights on stopping the privatisation of Sweden’s largely publicly-funded healthcare system. READ »

Royal court mulls suing over King book review

Society: 1 Feb 11
Sweden's Royal Court has allowed its lawyers to scrutinise a book review of the biography on King Carl XVI Gustaf published in the Left Party's newspaper to see if there are grounds to pursue legal action. READ »

Ohly affirms plans to stay on as Left Party leader

Politics: 14 Jan 11
Despite a growing chorus of criticism from within his party, Left Party leader Lars Ohly reaffirmed his plans to continue at the helm beyond the party’s 2012 congress. READ »

The debate over Swedish troops in Afghanistan

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 10
As the Riksdag prepares to vote on Sweden's military mission in Afghanistan, contributor David Stavrou examines how the distant conflict became such an important foreign policy issue--even before being mentioned in a warning sent by the Stockholm suicide bomber. READ »

Reinfeldt and Borg top Sweden power rankings

Society: 4 Dec 10
Prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and finance minister Anders Borg are Sweden’s two most powerful people for the second year in a row, according to a new ranking. READ »

Sweden to probe US embassy surveillance

Politics: 8 Nov 10
A Swedish prosecutor announced plans on Monday to open a formal investigation into the legality of information gathering activities carried out by the US embassy in Stockholm. READ »

Political parties mull future leadership plans

Politics: 8 Nov 10
Speculation is rife that a majority of the parties in Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, may be mulling changes at the top following the general election in September as they contemplate their futures. READ »

Left Party members seek Red-Green split

Politics: 2 Nov 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has insisted that the Red-Green coalition should continue its cooperation, although a majority of the party districts across the country want the party to break away on its own. READ »

Deal struck on Swedish troops in Afghanistan

Politics: 1 Nov 10
The centre-right Alliance government has reached an agreement with the Social Democrats and the Green Party regarding Sweden’s military mission in Afghanistan. READ »

Left Party drops out of Afghanistan talks

Politics: 1 Nov 10
The Left Party has dropped out of talks on a broad agreement on Sweden's troops in Afghanistan, the party said in a statement. READ »

Swedish leaders see unity on Afghanistan

Politics: 21 Oct 10
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin both expressed satisfaction that common ground could be found after talks on the Swedish force in Afghanistan on Thursday. READ »

Swedish forces present report on Afghanistan

National: 19 Oct 10
The supreme commander of the Armed Forces stressed the importance of the troops' work in Afghanistan to Sweden's parliament on Tuesday as the loss of a soldier this weekend was mourned. READ »

Sparks fly in first Left- Sweden Democrat duel

Politics: 8 Oct 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly and his Sweden Democrat counterpart Jimmie Åkesson sparred over immigration and other issues in their first debate on Thursday, READ »

Thousands demonstrate against racism

National: 5 Oct 10
Over 4,000 people gathered in central Stockholm on Monday to demonstrate for diversity and against racism, with the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats in focus as the party took its place in parliament for the first time. 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 »

Welfare and taxes dominate final debate

Politics: 18 Sep 10
Sweden's welfare state overshadowed the possible entrance into parliament of the far-right Sweden Democrats in the final televised party leader debate before elections on Sunday. READ »

Tempers flare in final party leader debate

Politics: 17 Sep 10
Mona Sahlin accused Fredrik Reinfeldt of spreading lies as the two traded jabs in a heated Thursday night debate pitting the leaders of Sweden’s seven Riksdag parties against each other just four days before election day. READ »

Sweden's Saab sold arms to Saudi Arabia: report

Business & Money: 17 Sep 10
Swedish defence firm Saab Bofors Dynamics sold anti-tank missiles to Saudi Arabia, according to Swedish media reports, despite previous denials by trade minister Eva Björling that weapons has been sold to the Saudis. 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 »

Left leader condemns attack on far-right

National: 13 Sep 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has condemned an attack on a local politician representing the far-right Sweden Democrats in Malmö on Friday, while the party on Monday suspended a rally in Gothenburg due to a counter-demonstration. READ »

Introducing the Left

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Left Party, bidding to assume power within the centre-left Red-Green coalition. READ »

Alliance dominates the polls as election nears

Politics: 8 Sep 10
The centre-right Alliance coalition enjoyed a clear lead in a brace of opinion polls published on Wednesday, with a Novus survey showing a 5.5 percentage point lead over the centre-left Red-Greens. READ »

Berlitz provides the language boost for your career

Education: 7 Sep 10
Although Valérie Frohly had learned another Scandinavian language before moving to Stockholm, the French expat turned to Berlitz to help her further her career in an almost exclusively Swedish-speaking work environment. READ »

Left Party's Ohly rebuked for 'breast pump' advice

Society: 6 Sep 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has been slammed by breastfeeding experts and Red-Green coalition colleagues for advising nursing mothers to pump milk out of their breasts so that they can go back to work earlier. READ »

Introducing the Red-Greens

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Sep 10
Here's a look at the centre-left Red-Greens, who hope they can move from opposition to Sweden's governing coalition. READ »

Poll: Alliance on track for absolute majority

Politics: 4 Sep 10
The Alliance coalition are heading for an absolute majority of the votes in the upcoming general election, according to the latest opinion poll, while the Social Democrats plumbed record lows. READ »

Fiery debate over Red-Green spending plan

Politics: 1 Sep 10
Anders Borg on Wednesday took aim at the opposition’s "rampant" spending programme, prompting his Social Democratic counterpart to call the finance minister's analysis "defective and silly". READ »

Red-Greens split over revamped wealth tax

Politics: 28 Aug 10
Sweden's three-party Red-Green opposition remains split on how best to reintroduce a wealth tax system if the government is defeated in next month's election. READ »

Red-Greens: Troops out of Afghanistan 2011

Politics: 27 Aug 10
A Red-Green government would begin the withdrawal of Swedish troops from Afghanistan in July 2011, with the last soldiers home by the 2013, the three party opposition coalition announced on Friday. READ »

Alliance leads, Social Democrats at record low

National: 27 Aug 10
The Alliance parties lead over the opposition has increased a little in the latest opinion poll by Synovate with 48.7 percent to 45 percent for the Red-Green opposition, while the Social Democrats dropped to their lowest level since 1997. READ »

Red-greens split on pensioner tax cuts

Politics: 25 Aug 10
The red-green coalition revealed a split on a proposal to cut taxes on pensioners to the levels of wage earners on Wednesday morning. READ »

Alliance parties gain absolute majority: poll

Politics: 22 Aug 10
Sweden's four-party centre-right Alliance would achieve an outright majority if a general election were held today, according to pollster Sifo's third August survey. READ »

Minister: Mink neglect must stop

National: 11 Aug 10
Sweden's agriculture minister Eskil Erlandsson has demanded an end to the neglectful treatment of minks after having been presented with macabre film footage from Sweden's mink farms. READ »

Party leaders slam opinion poll flood

Politics: 13 Jul 10
There are too many voter opinion polls with the large number of polls meaning that they lose their value - on this point parliamentary party leaders are in agreement, according to a survey by the Svenska Dagbladet daily. READ »

Liberals slam Left Party for dictatorship aid

National: 5 Jul 10
Liberal Party MP and foreign affairs spokesperson Fredrik Malm has accused the Left Party of funneling millions of kronor in development aid to leftist authoritarian and totalitarian regimes and causes. READ »

Left Party changes name to 'Welfare Party'

Politics: 5 Jul 10
The Left Party has changed its name, albeit temporarily, in order to profile its core issues and arrest the long-term slide in voter support, hoping to deflect criticism of party leader Lars Ohly. READ »

The Royal Wedding: Live Blog

National: 19 Jun 10
Today's the day that Crown Princess Victoria will get her man of the people. We'll be following the whole thing live - with reporters around Stockholm providing the latest news, reactions and (hopefully) informed speculation from the Royal Wedding. READ »

Green Party favours selling parts of Vattenfall

Business & Money: 18 Jun 10
Green Party spokesman Peter Eriksson believes that state power company Vattenfall is a major problem and is willing to sell off parts of the company. READ »

Roxette star among wedding guests

National: 17 Jun 10
Roxette’s Per Gessle, Eurovision contestant Malena Ernman and businesswoman Cristina Stenbeck: the great, the good and the celebrated of Sweden will be out in force at Saturday's royal wedding. READ »

Jobs in focus during party leader debate

Politics: 16 Jun 10
The jobs, the environment and unemployment were the dominant themes in the party leaders' debate in Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, on Wednesday. READ »

Big royal turnout expected for wedding

National: 16 Jun 10
Sweden’s royal wedding is set to attract one of largest gathering of kings and queens seen in Europe for years, a guest list for Friday’s pre-wedding concert has revealed. READ »

Greens call for 35-hour working week

National: 16 May 10
The Green Party voted at its annual congress on Saturday to include demands for a 35-hour work week in its manifesto for this September’s general election. READ »

Opposition touts tax cuts to fuel employment

National: 2 May 10
Sweden's left-green opposition parties have vowed to cut general payroll taxes for small businesses by 8 billion kronor ($1.1 billion) over the next two years in a bid to stimulate employment if they are elected into government this autumn. 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 »

Opposition calls for Stockholm bypass vote

Politics: 20 Apr 10
The left-green opposition wants to hold a referendum on the Bypass Stockholm traffic link that will cost the state around 27 billion kronor ($3.75 billion) and has been strongly criticised on environmental grounds. READ »

Royal court releases wedding details

National: 15 Apr 10
The launch of a new web page with details of the royal marriage of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling on June 19th has caused a stir of interest in Sweden. READ »

Lars Ohly turns down royal wedding invite

Politics: 14 Apr 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has declined the invitation to attend Crown Princess Victoria's wedding to Daniel Westling on June 19th, citing his opposition to the monarchy as grounds for staying away. READ »

Opposition lead widens in new poll

Politics: 10 Apr 10
Sweden's left-green opposition has stretched its lead over the governing centre-right coalition to 8.7 percentage points in a new poll. READ »

Reinfeldt leads voter support poll

Politics: 20 Mar 10
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt retains his position at the top of the party leader board in a new survey on voter confidence while support for opposition leader Mona Sahlin continues to decline. READ »

Opposition to end housekeeping tax relief

Politics: 2 Mar 10
The left-green opposition has confirmed that it plans to abolish the system of tax relief for household services that the government claims has generated 7,000 jobs. READ »

Housekeeping tax relief divides opposition

National: 28 Feb 10
Sweden's Moderate Party is launching a campaign today to make housekeeping a major issue in the country's upcoming elections thereby exploiting divisions between opposition parties. READ »

Green Party stumbles in new poll

Politics: 5 Feb 10
The two political blocs have drawn to within three percentage points of each other, a new voter poll shows. The Green Party is the biggest loser in the new survey. 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 »

Sweden slapped with hefty Development Days limousine bill

Politics: 22 Dec 09
Sweden has received a bill of almost 3.5 million kronor ($480,000) limousine services transporting delegates during a five-day summit meeting of European development aid ministers hosted this autumn by the Swedish EU presidency. READ »

Sweden reacts with dismay to Saab closure

National: 18 Dec 09
The news that carmaker Saab is to be closed down by owner General Motors might have been expected, but it has been greeted with dismay in Sweden. READ »

War of words erupts over scuttled Saab sale

Politics: 25 Nov 09
A verbal spat has broken out between the political opposition and Sweden’s industry minister Maud Olofsson after Left Party leader Lars Ohly blamed the government for the failed sale of Saab. READ »

Green Party makes ground among voters

Politics: 7 Nov 09
Green Party co-leader Maria Wetterstrand has surpassed Mona Sahlin as the main challenger to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt for the affections of Swedish voters, according to a new poll READ »

Left coalition partners in show of conference unity

Politics: 1 Nov 09
The Social Democrats welcomed their centre-left coalition partners, the Green and Left parties, to their ongoing conference on Sunday - the first time outside parties have taken part. READ »

Far-right 'no threat' to red-green cooperation

Politics: 20 Oct 09
Left Party leader Lars Ohly on Tuesday changed his stance regarding pre-election cooperation with other parties on the left, emphasizing that the far-right Sweden Democrats would never threaten to split the nascent red-green partnership. READ »

Time to accept EU membership: Left Party

Politics: 27 Sep 09
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has stated that it is time for the party to discard its demand for Sweden's withdrawal from the European Union, the last of the major Swedish parties to do so. READ »

Ohly declares royal residence 'a scandal'

Society: 13 Jul 09
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has spoken out against the Swedish government's decision to turn Haga Palace in Stockholm into a royal residence following Crown Princess Victoria's wedding to Daniel Westling next year. READ »

Increase state bank ownership: Left Party

Politics: 29 Jun 09
Kicking off Sweden's top annual political event, Almedalen Week in Visby, the Left Party said it wants to limit the size of banks as well as increase state ownership of financial institutions. READ »

Euro support hits six-year high: poll

Business & Money: 23 Jun 09
Support for Sweden joining the eurozone has reached its highest point since the 2003 referendum, with voters in favour of retaining the krona maintaining a lead of just one percentage point in a new poll. READ »

Swedish Pirate Party headed for Brussels

Politics: 7 Jun 09
Sweden's pro-file sharing Pirate Party is on its way to Brussels having secured more than 7 percent of the country's votes in the European Parliament elections, according to early exit polls. READ »

Left party leader rushed to hospital

Politics: 13 Apr 09
Lars Ohly, the leader of the Swedish Left party, was rushed to hospital on Friday. After experiencing stomach pains Ohly underwent an emergency operation. READ »

Sahlin hit by massive crisis of confidence

Politics: 8 Apr 09
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt enjoys almost twice as much voter support as Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin, according to a new survey. 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 »

Record high voter confidence for Reinfeldt: poll

Politics: 18 Mar 09
Confidence in Fredrik Reinfeldt has climbed by more than 10 percentage points in the last 12 months, with a record high 52 percent of voters supporting the Swedish prime minister. READ »

Opposition presses ahead with anti-nuke stance

Politics: 9 Feb 09
Sweden’s three opposition political parties plan on arriving at government energy talks on Thursday armed with a common position, the parties announced on Monday. 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 »

Sweden decks the halls for Nobel festivities

Society: 10 Dec 08
Over a million Swedes are expected to stay glued to their television sets on Wednesday to watch monarchs, politicians and assorted clever clogs tuck in to the annual Nobel banquet. READ »

Opposition parties to build coalition

Politics: 7 Dec 08
Sweden’s opposition political parties have announces plans to build a united coalition government following the 2010 Riksdag elections. READ »

Left party makes comeback in the polls

Politics: 7 Dec 08
The Left party is now Sweden's third largest party, after the Social Democrats and the Moderates. A new poll from Demoskop gives the Left party 7.7 percent of the vote. READ »

Sahlin sets Christmas cooperation deadline

Politics: 19 Nov 08
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has said a decision will be reached by Christmas as to whether the main parties of the opposition will run for election in 2010 on a joint electoral platform. READ »

Left Party: 'force pastors to perform gay weddings'

Politics: 11 Nov 08
As Sweden moves closer to a same-sex marriage law, Left Party leader Lars Ohly wants to include a provision to force pastors to wed gay couples. READ »

Sweden welcomes Obama

Politics: 5 Nov 08
Swedish politicians welcomed the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States on Wednesday morning, following the Democratic candidate’s defeat of rival John McCain. READ »

Sahlin retains hope for Ohly cooperation

Politics: 1 Nov 08
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin is hopeful that a tripartite coalition with the Green party and the Left party remains possible. The Left party leader Lars Ohly has declared meanwhile that talks are in deadlock. READ »

Economy and the Left dominate party debate

Politics: 13 Oct 08
Following a week of downbeat news about the economy and speculation about the Left Party's role in a future Social Democratic-led government, leaders of Sweden's seven major political parties squared off in a televised debate on Sunday night. READ »

Sahlin says 'door open' to Left Party

Politics: 10 Oct 08
Responding to a storm of criticism, Social Democratic party leader Mona Sahlin backtracked on Friday, saying she would no longer rule out including the Left Party in an eventual governing coalition. READ »

Outcry after Sahlin's Left Party snub

Politics: 9 Oct 08
Mona Sahlin has come in for withering criticism from both labour groups and members of her own Social Democratic Party following a decision to embrace the Greens at the expense of further cooperation with Sweden’s Left Party. READ »

Left Party snubbed by Sahlin and Greens

Politics: 8 Oct 08
Social Democratic party leader Mona Sahlin confirmed on Wednesday that Sweden’s Left Party was not welcome at the table as her party and the Greens announced plans to deepen their cooperation. READ »

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