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Stockholm riots: a view from the street in Husby

Analysis & Opinion: 22 May 13
Following three nights of violence that left cars smouldering in several Stockholm suburbs, The Local travelled to the north-western district of Husby where the disturbances began to see how the riots have affected local residents. READ »

Stockholm man lay dead in flat for two years

National: 22 May 13
Workmen in southern Stockholm found the body of man who may have lain dead in his flat for over two years, with the police blaming the belated discovery on society's broken social networks. READ »

'Sweden next in line for housing market crash'

Business & Money: 17 May 13
Sweden tops a list of countries that risk suffering a housing market crash, Germany's Commerzbank has warned, citing the slackening off of Swedish property prices as a harbinger of a potential downswing. READ »

Solna voted best place to live in Sweden

Business & Money: 17 May 13
Solna, a suburb just north of Stockholm, is the best place to live in Sweden, according to a new ranking published on Friday by Swedish news magazine Fokus. READ »

Young Swedes forced to live with mum and dad

Business & Money: 15 May 13
More than half of Swedes in their twenties are stuck living at home with their parents in major metropolitan areas, with observers blaming politicians for abdicating any responsibility for dealing with lack of housing. READ »

Illegal rentals thrive in Stockholm flat crunch

National: 6 May 13
The black market for first-hand rental contracts in Stockholm is alive and well as Swedes desperate for a place to live won't report illegal sales to the police, an investigation has revealed. READ »

Mural depicting mayor as Roman soldier unveiled

Society: 5 May 13
A painting that features a conservative mayor from south Sweden as a Roman legionary was unveiled Saturday amid protests about the high cost of the art work, commissioned by the mayor from his friend. READ »

Lumberjack declared dead after 102 years

Society: 5 May 13
A Swedish man who was last heard of in April 1911 has been officially declared dead by Swedish authorities, over a century after sending his last letter home from across the Atlantic. READ »

Malmö to fine people who fail to sort their trash

Business & Money: 2 May 13
Waste managers in Sweden's third city may introduce a fine for Malmö residents who don't properly sort their garbage after finding parts of a table in a food waste container. READ »

'Let's tell the truth about women's progress'

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Apr 13
Political leaders in Sweden and elsewhere could do themselves and women a favour by sticking to the facts when beating the drum for gender equality, argues liberal commentator Nima Sanandaji. READ »

Pensioners charged over Iron Maiden revenge

Society: 28 Apr 13
An elderly Stockholm couple grew so tired of the noises emanating from their neighbour that they took revenge by booming Iron Maiden at top volume, leading to a charge of harassment. READ »

Malmö locals cash in on Eurovision frenzy

Lifestyle: 19 Apr 13
Hosting the Eurovision Song Contest finals is bringing a cash windfall for Malmö, not least for some locals who are renting out their apartments to devoted music fans, The Local's Patrick Reilly discovers. READ »

Stockholm flat prices hit new record high

Business & Money: 16 Apr 13
Apartment prices in central Stockholm and Gothenburg have reached record high levels, according to the latest housing market figures, while the late spring has impacted negatively on the holiday home market. READ »

Zlatan puts Malmö mansion on the market

Business & Money: 12 Apr 13
Swedish star footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic is selling his five-bedroom mansion in Malmö, southern Sweden, six years after he snapped it up in extravagant circumstances. READ »

Swedish café owner defends his kid ban

Business & Money: 5 Apr 13
A Swedish café owner who told parents to keep their kids away from his shop stands by his decision, despite losing a fair chunk of his "latte parent" customers and complaints about discrimination. READ »

Swede endures 28-year wait for Stockholm flat

Business & Money: 28 Mar 13
A 64-year-old Swedish woman has finally got the home of her dreams in central Stockholm after waiting on the city's housing queue for 28 years, a story that experts explain is becoming all too common. READ »

'Fairness of Sweden's rental queues is a myth'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Mar 13
Finding a place to live is key for integrating immigrant families in Sweden, but Swedish housing policy throws a spanner in the works for even the most enterprising immigrant families, argues local Liberal Party politician Robert Hannah. READ »

Posh Östermalm pushed off top flat-price list

Business & Money: 21 Mar 13
Several affluent but less traditionally upper-crust neighbourhoods in inner-city Stockholm have managed to rob Östermalm of its status as the most expensive for property owners in Sweden. READ »

Business brief: Casa Mazzoni

Travel: 9 Mar 13
After traveling to 27 countries, Angelo Guzzi discovered the delights of Tuscany and decided to settle down. Now owner and manager of the Country Inn Casa Mazzoni, he wants to share the secrets of the place he calls paradise. READ »

'The northern lights are simply spectacular'

Travel: 8 Mar 13
In our weekly profile of people's lives in different parts of Sweden, The Local catches up with a Spanish couple who traded the sunny climes of Galicia for the snow, reindeer, and northern lights of Skellefteå. READ »

Bienvenido to The Local Spain!

National: 5 Mar 13
Today The Local Spain is throwing open its doors, bringing locally-sourced Spanish news to English speakers – both in Spain and abroad. READ »

Sony slaps Beyoncé uploader with damages

Business & Money: 1 Mar 13
Sony Music is demanding 1.5 million kronor ($200,000) in damages from a Swedish man who fileshared Beyoncé's as yet to be released album in a case that has legal experts scratching their heads. READ »

'Tighten mortgage rules': housing agency

Business & Money: 28 Feb 13
Rising mortgage lending is outpacing the increase in property prices in Sweden, leading a key state oversight board to raise a warning flag. READ »

Teens' online habits 'lead to better behaviour'

Science & Technology: 26 Feb 13
A new review of 15-year-old students in Sweden has shown a marked improvement in behaviour, with experts suggesting that students' online habits may be contributing to better attitudes toward crime. READ »

'Be cool! Remember that Swedes admire humility'

Analysis & Opinion: 25 Feb 13
In our second networking instalment of JobTalk Sweden, American management consultant Beth Topolovsky tells The Local why it is important to tone it down when out and about in Sweden. READ »

'We're love refugees too - but not the usual kind'

Lifestyle: 22 Feb 13
After his son started a family in a small central Sweden village, Scotsman Tom Smith ditched his dreams of retirement in France and followed his family to Nannberga, where he teaches Swedes the intricacies of stained glass making. READ »

Swedes' high debts spark housing bubble fears

Business & Money: 19 Feb 13
Swedes should brace for a downturn in housing prices in the face of overvalued homes and ballooning household debt, the head of Sweden's financial regulator has warned. READ »

Swedes slam 'outdated' farming subsidies

Politics: 9 Feb 13
Agricultural subsidies are set to fall under the new EU budget deal, but Swedish critics are mostly concerned about how the money will be spent. READ »

Sweden's average home price at 'record high'

Business & Money: 7 Feb 13
New housing figures reveal that would-be homeowners will be set back back 1 million kronor ($157,634) on average when buying a house anywhere in Sweden. READ »

Skanska posts heavy drop in annual net profit

Business & Money: 7 Feb 13
Swedish construction firm Skanska reported on Thursday a drop in annual net profit by 59 percent, despite a strong fourth quarter. READ »

'Immigrant areas have fewer social problems'

National: 3 Feb 13
Some areas of Sweden with low levels of immigration have more pronounced social problems than towns with higher numbers of immigrants, according to the conclusions of a new report based on the UN Human Development Index. READ »

The Lowdown: Sweden's new subletting law

Analysis & Opinion: 31 Jan 13
Wondering what changes to Sweden's subletting law might mean for you and what you pay in rent? The Local gets the lowdown from one of Sweden's largest housing organizations. READ »

Ikea bananas sprout in Swede's living room

Society: 31 Jan 13
A 61-year-old man from southern Sweden doesn't head to the supermarket for a banana - he simply pops into his living room where his Ikea banana plant has just bloomed for the first time in years. READ »

Stockholm sublets set for 'dramatic' rent hike

Business & Money: 24 Jan 13
Tenants' advocates warn that rents charged to sublet flats in Stockholm could double next month due to changes in Sweden's subletting laws, amid reports that rents are already higher than current laws allow. READ »

Two questioned over Ikea France spy scandal

Business & Money: 23 Jan 13
Two former Ikea employees in France were questioned on Tuesday about their suspected role in a spying scandal involving the use of an illegal police database that rocked the Swedish furniture giant last year. READ »

Man suspected of killing his mum

National: 20 Jan 13
A 27-year-old man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of killing his mother her home in Uppsala in eastern Sweden. READ »

Minister calls for law on corporate gender equality

Politics: 20 Jan 13
Sweden's equality minister Nyamko Sabuni has proposed a new law requiring companies to strive for a balance between women and men in the boardroom, while rejecting the idea of direct quotas. READ »

Swedish pilot risks drop after 'Top Gun' stunts

Society: 19 Jan 13
A Swedish pilot who performed dangerous 'barrel' rolls in a Jas Gripen fighter aircraft stands to lose his job with the Armed Forces. READ »

Sweden's ten priciest places to live revealed

Business & Money: 18 Jan 13
The costs of maintaining a house in Sweden can vary by as much as 15,000 kronor ($2,300) per year depending on where the house is located, according to a report published on Friday. READ »

Building company freed from compensation claim

National: 18 Jan 13
The Gothenburg Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that a construction company does not have to compensate 23 families seeking redress for moisture damage linked to a specific insulation technique. READ »

Riksbank probes mortgage-repayment law

Business & Money: 15 Jan 13
The head of Sweden's central bank, Stefan Ingves, said on Tuesday that the government could be forced to make Swedes pay off their mortgages if the country's banks don't "take the responsibility" themselves. READ »

Danish labour law attracts Swedish workers

Business & Money: 27 Dec 12
Many thousands of Swedes flock across the sound to Denmark for work every day, but now Copenhagen is trying to tailor the country's labour market 'flexicurity' to a new reality of sluggish growth and rising unemployment. READ »

Municipality buys Mouse Trap strip joint

Business & Money: 23 Dec 12
After a long campaign to evict a strip club from Barnarp in the south of Sweden the local municipality has stepped in, buying the property for 3 million Swedish kronor ($470,000). READ »

Swedish ISP forced to give out customer info

Science & Technology: 21 Dec 12
In a landmark anti-piracy ruling, Sweden’s Supreme Court said on Friday that broadband provider ePhone must share information about a customer who put audio books online and made them available for illegal downloading. READ »

The Local's guide to moving in Sweden

Lifestyle: 14 Dec 12
There are lots of things to keep track of when you move home. The Local has teamed up with our friends at Adressändring to provide you with a guide to the most important things to think about. READ »

Foreigners to help plug Jokkmokk brain drain

Lifestyle: 7 Dec 12
Jokkmokk in Sweden's far north is hoping to entice foreigners to make their home on the Arctic Circle by offering cheap housing and a helping hand, all in a drive to help repopulate the area, The Local's Ann Törnkvist discovers. READ »

Fifteen Hells Angels jailed after party attack

National: 6 Dec 12
Fifteen men with connections to the Swedish Hells Angels biker gang were sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on Thursday for their involvement in a violent attack on party-goers in southern Sweden in May. READ »

Subletting in Sweden set to get more expensive

Politics: 5 Dec 12
It may be easier to sublet a flat or home in Sweden next year, but it may also be more expensive, according to a government bill which cleared an important legislative hurdle on Tuesday. READ »

Irish ambassador: We're learning from the Swedes

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Dec 12
James Joseph Carroll, Ireland's ambassador to Sweden, talks to The Local about Ericsson, the West Bank, and how Swedish brainpower is helping turn around the Irish economy. READ »

Ericsson sues Samsung for patent infringement

Business & Money: 27 Nov 12
Telecom giant Ericsson is suing Samsung in US court, claiming its South Korean rival violated the Swedish company's patents. READ »

Skanska blames profit drop on eurozone

Business & Money: 8 Nov 12
Swedish construction and engineering giant Skanska announced a drop in third-quarter profits of 23 percent, citing the uncertainty of the European economy. READ »

Foreigners' identities stolen in housing scam

National: 7 Nov 12
Fraudsters are finding new ways to trick house-hunters in Sweden, stealing the identities of real people in other countries to convince desperate would-be tenants to part with their money. READ »

Top ten: Sweden's most expensive addresses

Society: 1 Nov 12
Sweden’s most expensive addresses have been revealed by a Swedish real estate agency, including one where US golfer Tiger Woods has a home. READ »

Swedish banks 'a safe haven' from euro crisis

National: 14 Oct 12
Swedish banks report having seen a boost in foreign investors seeking safer investments away from the troubled eurozone. READ »

Hells Angels trial opens after violent party crash

National: 2 Oct 12
The trial against 19 members from motorcycle gang Hells Angels, who crashed a biker party in southern Sweden earlier this year, began in Gothenburg on Tuesday. READ »

Swedish raid prompts new cyber attack threat

Science & Technology: 2 Oct 12
Sweden should prepare for further cyber attacks in retaliation for Monday's raid against web hosting company PRQ – previous hosts to The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks – hacktivist network Anonymous has warned. READ »

Swedish police raid Stockholm web host

Science & Technology: 2 Oct 12
Swedish police on Monday raided Stockholm-based web hosting company PRQ – previous hosts to The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. READ »

Two held as debate on Malmö Jews' safety rages

National: 28 Sep 12
Two teens have been detained in connection with an explosion that damaged a Jewish community centre in Malmö early Friday morning in an incident that has rekindled debate about the safety of Jews in Sweden's third largest city. READ »

Mayor painted as Roman soldier with public funds

Business & Money: 26 Sep 12
A mayor from southern Sweden has been slammed for paying an artist friend 600,000 kronor ($91,584) in public funds to paint a depiction of the mayor dressed as a Roman legionary. READ »

Ikea denies reports of founder's retirement

Business & Money: 17 Sep 12
Ikea on Monday denied media reports that Ingvar Kamprad, the 86-year-old founder of the Swedish furniture giant, had passed responsibility for running the company to his three sons. But the company did announce another management change. READ »

Ikea founder passes torch to three sons

Society: 17 Sep 12
Ingvar Kamprad, the 86-year-old founder of Ikea, has confirmed that the Swedish furniture giant has been handed over to his three sons, with each taking over a third of the company. READ »

Police catch 'ruthless' subway robber

National: 15 Sep 12
Police on Saturday said they are certain that the man arrested on Friday is the man caught on security camera emptying the pockets of an unconscious victim at a Stockholm station, leaving him to be run over by a train. READ »

Burglars target Royals' summer residence

National: 23 Aug 12
When the Swedish King and Queen were fast asleep in the Royal family’s summer residence on the Baltic island of Öland, a burglar struck against a property on the estate. READ »

Ikea to build 'district' in northern Germany

Business & Money: 22 Aug 12
Swedish flat-back furniture chain Ikea has announced plans to build a whole district in the northern German town of Hamburg, complete with shops, flats, and offices. READ »

Man beats victim with axe, dumps body in well

National: 21 Aug 12
A 39-year-old man in southern Sweden has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after repeatedly hitting his 59-year-old victim in the head with an axe and a frying pan, and dumping the body into a well. READ »

Sweden's Ipred law had little effect: report

Science & Technology: 17 Aug 12
A recent review of Sweden's controversial Ipred law, giving copyright owners the right to request IP-addresses of suspected illegal file sharers, shows that there were only eleven cases between 2009 and 2012. READ »

New Saab owners will not get rights to logo

Business & Money: 16 Aug 12
Truck maker Scania announced Thursday that the new owners of Saab will not get the rights to the iconic Saab logo. READ »

Ikea to open 100 budget hotels across Europe

Business & Money: 15 Aug 12
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is planning to build 100 budget hotels around Europe in its most recent push to join the property market. READ »

23-year-old charged for shooting axe victim

National: 10 Aug 12
A 23-year-old man has been charged with the murder of 51-year-old Esa Rano, known in Sweden for surviving a vicious axe attack in a village feud in 2008. READ »

Nuns ask council for help finding new convent

Society: 8 Aug 12
Three catholic nuns have asked local authorities in Gällivare for help in finding a suitable convent in northern Sweden after allegedly being called by God for this very purpose. READ »

'I waved and flapped like a swan in a cattery'

Lifestyle: 7 Aug 12
While house-hunting up north, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly comes face to face with the scourge of the northern Swedish summer; the bloodthirsty and dreaded mygga, or mosquito. READ »

Man reports police for 'too low' finders-fee

Society: 7 Aug 12
A man in southern Sweden has reported the police to the Parliamentary Ombudsman after being dissatisfied with the reward he was given for turning in a lost bike. READ »

Stockholm battles 'smart' rat invasion: report

Science & Technology: 6 Aug 12
Compared to last year, the number of pest control call-outs in Stockholm for mice has almost doubled and for rats increased by a third, according to experts. READ »

'One individual can save the lives of thousands'

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Aug 12
As Sweden celebrated the centennial of diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in August, the national coordinator for the Wallenberg year, Olle Wästberg, ponders the importance of individual responsibility. READ »

Two men found with 90 kilogrammes of cannabis

Business & Money: 2 Aug 12
Two men in southern Sweden have been charged with aggravated narcotics crime after police found them in possession of some 90 kilogrammes of cannabis earlier this year. READ »

Gunman shoots himself after police chase

National: 27 Jul 12
A man who shot at his wife and her daughter, set alight to the family home and then fled from police in western Sweden on Friday morning, finally turned his hunting rifle on himself is now in hospital recovering from gun shot wounds. READ »

Two injured in suspected Malmö arson attack

National: 26 Jul 12
Two people had to be taken to hospital after a serious fire broke out in a Malmö parking garage on Thursday morning in an incident described by witnesses as an “explosion”. READ »

Swedbank CEO demands amortization law

Business & Money: 24 Jul 12
Swedbank CEO Michael Wolf has proposed that Sweden adopts a law requiring mortgage amortization to ward off the threat of spiralling household debt to the Swedish economy. READ »

New wave of arson attacks hits Ystad

National: 24 Jul 12
A fire broke out on Tuesday morning in a house in Ystad in southern Sweden, the fifth of a spate of suspected arson attacks in the past week which have raised fears of a new "dusk and dawn" pyromaniac. READ »

Berry pickers targeted in rock-throwing attack

National: 19 Jul 12
Berry pickers at a makeshift camp in eastern Sweden were forced to call police on Wednesday night after unknown assailants threw rocks at them in the latest round of escalating tensions between locals and the migrant workers. READ »

Libor scandal prompts calls for probe in Sweden

Business & Money: 16 Jul 12
Calls are mounting in Sweden for a review of the country's interbank lending system following revelations about alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate (Libor). READ »

Sweden to be 'protecting power' for UK in Iran

Politics: 13 Jul 12
Sweden is set to look after Britain's interests as a "protecting power" in Iran starting Sunday, foreign Minister Carl Bildt confirmed Thursday. READ »

Sweden world's second 'most innovative' country

Business & Money: 3 Jul 12
Sweden has been ranked as the second most innovative country in the world, and the first in the European Union, according to the 2012 Global Innovation Index. READ »

Assange ‘will not comply’ with UK police orders

National: 29 Jun 12
Julian Assange will remain in the Ecuadorian embassy, choosing not to comply with UK police orders to turn himself in for extradition to Sweden, a spokesperson for the WikiLeaks founder said Friday. READ »

Nine-year-old boy with gun steals electric car

Society: 28 Jun 12
A gun toting nine-year-old took aim at shocked bystanders before stealing an electric car and embarking on a 30 km/h joyride that ended with him crashing at a roundabout in western Sweden. READ »

Sweden's 'priciest' country manor for sale

Business & Money: 25 Jun 12
Well-heeled buyers with 150 million kronor ($21.3 million) to spare can own an exclusive slice of real estate on the Baltic island of Gotland as Sweden's most expensive country estate was recently put up for sale. READ »

Harsher sentences for three Viking looters

National: 19 Jun 12
Tuesday saw the conclusion in the appeals court of the trial against three men charged with aggravated crime against relics following the looting of Viking age coins and artefacts on the Baltic island of Gotland. READ »

Swedish resident shot dead in Sarajevo

National: 15 Jun 12
A 55-year-old resident of central Sweden was gunned down outside his rental property in Sarajevo late on Wednesday night after what police believe to be a botched burglary attempt. READ »

'No nationalism please, we're Swedish'

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Jun 12
Following the celebrations of Sweden’s National Day on June 6th, a somewhat recent invention, Swedish journalist and columnist Ola Tedin reflects that there is nationalism and nationalism. READ »

Agency demands Norway clean-up crash site

Business & Money: 11 Jun 12
Sweden’s National Property Board is demanding that the Swedish government asks Norway to clear up the mess caused by the crash of a Norwegian Hercules plane on mount Kebnekaise in March. READ »

Zlatan Ibrahimovic buys Swedish 'hunting' island

Society: 9 Jun 12
Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has bought an island in Lake Mälaren west of Stockholm, the latest addition to his extensive property holdings. READ »

British flyer finds lost WWII plane on The Local

Lifestyle: 1 Jun 12
An aging WWII veteran who ditched his plane off the Swedish coast in 1943 has been able to share his harrowing tale thanks to an article on The Local about an airman who landed on a cow in a field in southern Sweden. READ »

Habo voted Sweden's 'best place to live'

National: 31 May 12
Habo, a small municipality in southern Sweden, is the best place in Sweden to live, according to a new ranking published on Thursday. Malmö, meanwhile, was ranked nearly dead last. READ »

Support for file sharing remains high in Sweden

Science & Technology: 19 May 12
File sharing is still going strong in Sweden as a new study reveals that levels have barely been affected by the new, harsh laws. READ »

Ikea bosses sacked over France spying scandal

Business & Money: 18 May 12
Ikea is sacking four managers at its French subsidiary following allegations that they spied on employees and customers using an illegal police database, the Swedish home furnishing retailer announced on Friday. READ »

Gold treasure behind Wallenberg arrest: report

National: 18 May 12
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg had at least 15 kilogrammes of gold and jewellery in his car when the Red Army arrested him in 1945, according to a new book by a Swedish author. READ »

Sweden extends police eavesdropping powers

Science & Technology: 11 May 12
Sweden on Thursday passed a law making it easier for police to conduct wiretaps as well as obtain data about the identities of individual computer users, much to the dismay of privacy advocates. READ »

Study: more Swedes surf the net anonymously

Science & Technology: 1 May 12
Swedes have become more inclined to surf the internet anonymously, in order to protect themselves from online surveillance, a new study shows. READ »

Drunk man charged with hijacking brewery truck

National: 26 Apr 12
An inebriated man from southeastern Sweden has been charged with hijacking a brewery truck loaded full of empty bottles outside one of Sweden’s state run alcohol retailers, spreading broken glass in his wake. READ »

Student chokes principal over slow computer

Education: 19 Apr 12
A student at a school in southern Sweden, angry that he couldn’t get his computer to work, went berserk on Monday throwing furniture around and trying to strangle the principal. READ »

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