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Science & Technology: 4 Jun 13
A landmark private donation has allowed plans to move forward for a new Nobel Center in the Swedish capital that will offer more space for both visitors and researchers alike than the current location in Stockholm's Gamla Stan.
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Science & Technology: 23 May 13
Scientists at three Swedish universities have managed to muddle through the genetic code for fir trees, seven times larger than the human genome, with potential benefits for the Swedish forestry industry.
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National: 6 May 13
Australian officials declared Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, as the country's first honorary citizen at a ceremony in Canberra on Monday.
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National: 15 Apr 13
Australia on Monday paid homage to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, by making him the country's first honorary citizen.
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National: 27 Feb 13
Horsemeat contamination fears have prompted Swedish furniture giant Ikea to halt the sale of additional meat products after new tests by a Sweden-based meatball supplier confirmed horsemeat content.
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National: 22 Feb 13
A Swedish court on Friday convicted five young men for assaulting a younger student in a high-profile hazing case that took place at the same prestigious Swedish boarding school once attended by King Carl XVI Gustaf.
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Education: 5 Feb 13
A student told a court on Monday of being beaten by five other students facing charges in a hazing scandal that has rocked the same prestigious Swedish boarding school once attended by King Carl XVI Gustaf.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jan 13
A year after Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca announced the closure of its research facilities in Södertälje, south of Stockholm, officials are cheering plans to create a new research park financed in part by the powerful Wallenberg family.
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Politics: 4 Jan 13
Top Swedish politicians have introduced an official memorial day for the "great Swede" Raoul Wallenberg, who saved 100,000 people from the Holocaust in Budapest during World War II.
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Business & Money: 29 Dec 12
Scandinavian airlines SAS was on the brink of collapse in November, the company's board vice chair Jacob Wallenberg admitted in an interview on Saturday.
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Education: 24 Nov 12
New incidents of hazing have been reported at the prestigious Swedish boarding school once attended by King Carl XVI Gustaf, including a case of a young girl forced to perform oral sex on a snowman.
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Politics: 23 Nov 12
Only one woman, Enterprise Minister Annie Lööf, has made it into an annual top-ten list of the most powerful Swedes.
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National: 19 Nov 12
With Scandinavian airlines SAS and unions working furiously to avoid potential bankruptcy, The Local brings you the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding the troubled airline.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Nov 12
Aviation experts doubt a massive savings plan announced on Monday by Scandinavian airline SAS can save the company, with one analyst forecasting the airline would cease to exist within 12 months.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Oct 12
With the opening of a conference in Stockholm examining historical research on Raoul Wallenberg, historian Susanne Berger argues that more must be done to force Russia to open up records that could shed light on the still-disputed fate of the Swedish diplomat.
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Society: 8 Oct 12
Hundreds of people gathered in Stockholm on Sunday to show solidarity with the Jews of Malmö, where a Jewish community building was attacked last month.
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Science & Technology: 13 Sep 12
Sweden's famed 17th century Vasa warship, housed in a Stockholm museum, is deteriorating faster than previously believed despite renewed preservation efforts, researchers have warned.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Aug 12
Contributor Susanne Berger explains how the confusion about other Swedish prisoners in the Gulag complicates the search into Wallenberg’ fate.
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National: 4 Aug 12
As the 100 year anniversary of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg’s birth is commemorated in Sweden and globally, democracy minister Birgitta Ohlsson suggests making August 4th Wallenberg’s own annual day in the Swedish calendar.
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Lifestyle: 4 Aug 12
With the centenary of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg's birth on Saturday, The Local catches up with Brian Palmer, a researcher at Uppsala University who has created a calendar to commemorate individuals of exceptional civic courage.
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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.
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Lifestyle: 3 Aug 12
As Sweden celebrates the centennial of the birth of one of its most loved heroes, Raoul Wallenberg, AFP's Stuart Williams reports how mystery and anger still shrouds the disappearance of the Swedish diplomat in 1945.
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Society: 1 Aug 12
An Israel-based group has asked the Swedish government to request for Interpol assistance to try to track possible witnesses to the fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Jul 12
Official claims from Russia about when Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg died appear ever more doubtful as new evidence emerges, argues historian Susanne Berger, who has called for the investigation in Wallenberg's fate to be re-opened.
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Business & Money: 29 Jun 12
Percy Barnevik, the former head of Swedish-Swiss industrial giant ABB and one of Sweden's most well-known business figures, was arrested in London in June on suspicions of committing sex crimes. However, police dropped the probe in October.
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Politics: 22 May 12
The American intelligence service CIA prompted an investigation by Sweden into the Wallenberg case in the 1970s, using false witness statements, according to a new Swedish book.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 May 12
Abba's famous refrain fails to capture the true cause for concern when Swedish politicians leave government to fatten their wallets in the private sector, argues commentator and historian David Linden.
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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.
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Education: 24 Apr 12
Five students from the same prestigious Swedish boarding school once attended by King Carl XVI Gustaf have been arrested on suspicions of violently beating a fellow student in a long-running hazing campaign.
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Society: 20 Apr 12
US president Barack Obama praised the "selfless acts" of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in a special video message released Thursday to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Business & Money: 11 Apr 12
A 20-year-old Swede who has yet to graduate from high school has nominated himself to the board of Investor, one of Sweden's most powerful investment companies.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Mar 12
A so far unidentified Swedish prisoner in Soviet captivity in the 1950s may provide historians with more clues as to the fate of missing WWII diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, argues historian Susanne Berger.
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Business & Money: 25 Jan 12
The Saab museum of automobile rarities, which has struggled to find a buyer following the company’s recent bankruptcy, has been saved by a Wallenberg-family trust that wanted the museum to remain intact.
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National: 18 Jan 12
The Swedish foreign ministry announced on Wednesday that a new probe into the fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who vanished after being taken into custody by Soviet Union soldiers 67 years ago.
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National: 17 Jan 12
Sweden was aware that Soviet secret police were obstructing an investigation into the fate of Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, researchers claim, citing a newly discovered document.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jan 12
The Swedish government has announced that it will designate 2012 as the official "Raoul Wallenberg Year" and the honour is more than deserved, according to historian Susanne Berger.
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National: 10 Dec 11
Right-wing extremist groups clashed with counter protesters at in Gamla Stan, as an annual demonstration relocated from Salem to Stockholm.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Oct 11
While the frustration expressed recently by the children of imprisoned Swedish-Eritrian journalist Dawit Isaak is understandable, it's important to consider how Isaak would handle a case such as his, argues historian Susanne Berger.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Oct 11
Just as Sweden helped win the release of two American journalists captured in North Korea in 2009, the US can hopefully find a way to return the favour in Ethiopia before Sweden considers supporting US anti-terror efforts in the region, argues historian Susanne Berger.
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Business & Money: 14 Oct 11
Percy Barnevik, the former CEO of industrial giant ABB who was disgraced over a pension scandal in 2003, has answered charges from ex-Investor board chair Peter Wallenberg that Barnevik was a terrible business leader.
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Business & Money: 25 Aug 11
Sweden's powerful Wallenberg family has been left out of pocket following the premature collapse of Italian sport and pornography television channel Dahlia TV.
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National: 2 Aug 11
A new book containing statements from a cellmate of missing Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg proves that Russian officials deliberately withheld information about the fate of the man credited with saving thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, researchers allege.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Jul 11
As Swedish citizen Dawit Isaak endures his tenth year in Eritrean captivity, publicist Arne Ruth and historian Susanne Berger explain why the Swedish government should give its full backing to a new legal initiative aimed at securing his release.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Jun 11
Historical documents related to the capture of seven Swedes by the Gestapo in Poland in 1942 puts Sweden's subsequent ball bearing deliveries to Nazi Germany in a new light, argue historians Susanne Berger and Ingela Magner.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 May 11
While conspiracy theorists have long viewed the exclusive global network of elites known as the Bilderberg Group as a secretive global government, a new book by a Sweden-based academic argues the group's influence is often overstated, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson explains.
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Business & Money: 22 Mar 11
Swedish fund EQT Monday announced the sale of Kabel BW, a German cable operator, to US-based Liberty Global for 3.16 billion euros ($4.49 billion).
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Education: 25 Feb 11
Sweden's education minister Jan Björklund has sharpened his tone against privately-run "free schools", conceding that there are several indications that profit takes precedence over quality.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 11
Rather than denounce Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, people should instead take aim at the Swedish system that forced him to move the company’s fortunes abroad, argues business school professor Hans Sjögren.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 11
With Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak in prison in Eritrea and questions still swirling about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, historian Susanne Berger argues that Sweden needs to do more to shorten its ignominious line of unsolved disappearances.
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National: 14 Jan 11
An increasing number of Sweden's top business executives are hiring bodyguards as the threat and risk of robbery and extortion grows in the country.
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Business & Money: 16 Dec 10
Swedish holding company Investor has agreed to double its stake in the NASDAQ OMX Group, the Wallenberg family powerhouse announced on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 10 Dec 10
Swedish television and internet company Com Hem is up for sale and expected to fetch 13 billion ($1.89 billion) to 18 billion kronor, according to media reports.
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Business & Money: 26 Nov 10
Union representatives for workers at Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux have railed against the generous pay package for incoming American CEO Keith McLoughlin.
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Business & Money: 13 Oct 10
Swedish holding firm and Wallenberg family powerhouse Investor indicated in its interim report that it is prepared to dig deep and invest when the time is right, as its asset portfolio showed a 9 percent increase.
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Business & Money: 8 Oct 10
Two of Sweden’s largest banks are flirting with Swedbank about a possible merger, according to media reports. Swedbank denies any talks are underway, however.
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Business & Money: 23 Sep 10
Sweden's Electrolux, the world's second-largest home appliance manufacturer, has announced that Keith McLoughlin will succeed outgoing Hans Stråberg as the company's new president and CEO.
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Society: 20 Jun 10
Guests at the royal wedding party danced into the early hours after Prince Daniel’s moving speech brought tears to the eyes of a radiant Crown Princess Victoria.
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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.
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National: 4 Apr 10
The Swedish state should focus on developing new investment funds for venture capital as well as seeking out international and national capital investment, according to a proposal published this week in Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
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National: 3 Apr 10
Two researchers have said there is strong evidence to suggest that Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was still alive after the date on which the Soviet Union claimed he had died of a heart attack.
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National: 2 Apr 10
Russian archivists have said that Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg may have been alive after July 17, 1947. Wallenberg is credited with rescuing thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
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Business & Money: 5 Mar 10
The Wallenberg-family controlled firm Investor has purchased 11.2 million b-shares, 10.2 percent of the capital, in defence concern Saab. The price tag comes in at 1.1 billion kronor ($150 million).
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National: 21 Feb 10
The governments of Sweden, Norway and Denmark have agreed to pump 4.7 billion kronor ($684 million) into the sagging Scandinavian airline SAS while all want to sell their stakes as biggest shareholders.
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National: 14 Feb 10
Saab Automobile has been losing money for years. But the separate Saab military products company is posting nice profits, though not quite meeting market expectation.
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National: 6 Nov 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt can once again lay claim to the title of Sweden’s most power person, having nudged his own finance minister Anders Borg from the top spot in a new ranking released on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 13 Oct 09
Swedish investment group Investor turned a profit in the third quarter, the company reported on Tuesday, capitalizing on global financial markets’ decreased volatility.
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Business & Money: 14 Jul 09
Despite strong second-quarter profits at Investor, the CEO of the Swedish holding company said Tuesday he doesn’t expect the global economy to rebound quickly.
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Business & Money: 15 Apr 09
Swedish holding company Investor reported net losses of 3.02 billion kronor ($368 million) for the first quarter on Wednesday. The firm's CEO forecast continued economic turbulence in 2009.
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National: 14 Mar 09
Swedish bank SEB CEO Annika Falkengren on Saturday apologized to the bank's customers and employees after the outcry that followed a decision to hike executive pay.
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Politics: 12 Mar 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has joined Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin in lashing out against the SEB banking group over a decision to hike executive pay.
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Business & Money: 9 Mar 09
The chief executive of Investor, the holding company of the Wallenberg family, received a pay packet worth 15.4 million kronor for 2008, despite the company posting a loss of 37 billion kronor.
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Society: 2 Mar 09
New documents have shown that the mother and stepfather of Raoul Wallenberg both committed suicide in 1979 having dedicated much of their lives in a despairing search for the missing Swedish diplomat.
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National: 15 Feb 09
New documents have emerged indicating that Swedish finance minister, Ernst Wigforss, approved secret Swedish bank credits to Nazi Germany in 1941.
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Business & Money: 3 Feb 09
Scandinavian airline SAS reported major losses for 2008 on Tuesday as it announced plans to accelerate restructuring, lay off thousands, and divest several subsidiaries.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jan 09
In the first of a series highlighting different communities in Sweden, The Local’s David Landes takes a look at how the sprawling and complex history of Swedish-Russian relations affects life for Russians living in Sweden today.
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Business & Money: 20 Jan 09
The Wallenberg industrial holding company Investor reported huge losses for 2008 on Monday, despite a reduction in fourth quarter losses.
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National: 6 Jan 09
German sports car maker Porsche is obliged to place a bid for Swedish truck firm Scania after acquiring more that fifty percent of the voting stock in Volkswagen.
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Business & Money: 4 Dec 08
Ford has said it wants to sell Volvo Cars for $6 billion, just shy of what the US carmaker paid when it bought the Swedish company a decade ago.
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Business & Money: 14 Nov 08
Despite their billions, Sweden’s wealthiest individuals have shown that not even they can withstand the effects of the financial crisis coupled with a dismal year on the stock market.
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Lifestyle: 10 Nov 08
Nina Liljeqvist looks at ten Swedish inventions that have changed the world.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Oct 08
Sweden means many different things to many different people. Just ask the United States Secret Service, writes Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute.
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Business & Money: 14 Oct 08
Swedish investment giant Investor expressed optimism for the future on Tuesday despite suffering massive third quarter losses.
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Business & Money: 14 Oct 08
Following Monday’s upward trend, the Stockholm stock exchange had climbed more than 5 percent in the first ten minutes of trading on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 13 Oct 08
The Stockholm stock exchange recovered some of the ground lost in recent weeks with a massive 8.8 percent rise on Monday.
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Society: 29 Sep 08
Three Swedish women are among Fortune magazine’s most powerful business women in the world, with SEB bank CEO Annika Falkengren coming in seventh place.
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Business & Money: 10 Jul 08
Investor, Northern Europe's biggest industrial holding company, fell into the red in the second quarter with a net loss of 3.52 billion kronor.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jul 08
A new Swedish snoop law has sparked the wildest political debate in many years. Cold War press veteran David Bartal wonders why people seem so surprised.
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Business & Money: 29 May 08
Telecom operator 3 has filed a suit against TeliaSonera for what it argues are deceptive claims about the latter’s mobile broadband coverage.
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Business & Money: 28 Apr 08
Scania on Monday posted strong first quarter results and increased sales while flagging a sharp fall in new orders ahead.
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Lifestyle: 17 Apr 08
What's on this week in Sweden: Alcoholic drinks fair in Stockholm, Speedminton in Gothenburg, Angie Stone in Malmö.
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Business & Money: 10 Apr 08
The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority has concluded that the German truck manufacturer MAN AG is not obliged to launch a bid on Scania AB.
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National: 31 Mar 08
Reaction from Sweden’s press and political establishment ranged from shock to scathing criticism following Monday’s announcement that Pernod Ricard would assume ownership of Vin & Sprit.
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Business & Money: 28 Mar 08
Unions argue that the Sweden-based bid for the takeover of Vin & Sprit, owner of the vodka brand Absolut, is probably the worst alternative available.
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Business & Money: 3 Mar 08
Volkswagen's acquisition of truckmaker Scania saw one of the Swedish auto industry's last crown jewels pass into foreign hands, following in the footsteps of Volvo and Saab.
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National: 3 Mar 08
Scania's main workers union has said it was pleased German car maker Volkswagen had taken control of the Swedish truck maker.
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Business & Money: 3 Mar 08
Volkswagen is to raise its voting rights in Scania following an accord with Investor and the Wallenberg foundation. The move is seen as a possible prelude to a merger of Scania and MAN.
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Business & Money: 7 Dec 07
Two of Sweden's most powerful financial families, the Wallenbergs and the Stenbecks, have had a bumpy ride on this year's turbulent stock market.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Nov 07
Combining your name with that of your spouse seems like a perfectly natural thing to do in a modern society. But things can be complicated if you live in Sweden, says Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius.
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Business & Money: 18 Oct 07
Shares in heavy lorry maker MAN leapt in early trading in Frankfurt on Thursday after a press report said Scania of Sweden was set to launch a bid for the German group. Shares in Volkswagen also benefited.
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Business & Money: 17 Oct 07
The Swedish Food Workers Union has rejected moves by Wallenberg-owned venture capital firm EQT to acquire drinks maker Vin & Sprit.
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