Sweden has threatened to challenge Denmark in the EU over a ubiquitous debit card that the government says is an obstacle to free trade and to the integration of the Öresund region.
A family in Skellefteå in the north of Sweden have had their application to be a support family turned down - because the father plays in a hard rock band.
Swedish police have announced a series of tough measures to curb speeding drivers. The previous policy of tolerating people driving at up to 15 kilometres per hour over the speed limit will now be scrapped.
In August 2004 a currency salesman at Forex travelled to Thailand and persuaded a 28 year old colleague, who had stolen 2.8 million kronor, to return home.
George W. Bush is Swedish. Partly, at least, according to the Swedish Colonial Society, which has researched the president's ancestors going back ten generations.
The Swedish government's spring budget negotiations with its coalition partners, the Left Party and the Green Party, begin on Wednesday amid rumours that a cut in property tax is planned.
Hidden cameras in the TV programme Insider have revealed how some estate agents operate. False bids are among the disreputable practices shown. TV3's Insider revealed several estate agents with dubious ethics. The programme makers contacted 22 agents in the Stockholm area at random and said they had a property for sale.
The European Commission is suing Sweden in the European Court because of Sweden's law permitting home owners to postpone capital gains tax on the sale of homes.
There has been a mixed reaction to the Swedish government's growth forecasts for the next two years, which were presented by finance minister Pär Nuder on Wednesday.
The Swedish Employment Service (AMS) has admitted that the available jobs in its database have been counted twice in its reports of live job numbers. The Riksbank and other forecasters have been misled, but the scale of the error is still unclear.
The number of people who do not have a home is continuing to rise in Sweden. At least 17,800 people were homeless at the end of April last year and increasing numbers of women and immigrants are being affected, according to a survey by the National Board of Health and Welfare.
The European Commission said that it will take Sweden to the European Court of Justice on the grounds the the country's tax relief scheme on the sale of homes does not comply with EU legislation.
Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish billionaire who founded the Ikea budget furnishings chain, has maintained his position as Switzerland's richest resident, a magazine's rich list said Monday.
Sweden's Green Party has refused to back government proposals to cut out the religious aspect of independent religious schools in the country. The issue has stalled the negotiations over a new schooling law, which the government is due to put to the vote next Thursday.
For the price of a two bedroom flat on the exclusive island of Lidingö, near Stockholm, you could buy 95 similar apartments in Nyland, near Kramfors in Northern Sweden – and wave goodbye to traffic wardens and childcare queues in the process.
Swedes' willingness to pay the tax levels decided by the government is perhaps not as heartfelt as previously thought: according to new research every third Swede has bought services "black" - cash-in-hand, avoiding the tax - in the last twelve months.
