Even if there is a change of government at the next election, the current crop of ministers have their finances well-secured: half of them will continue to receive salaries until they retire without lifting a finger.
Average families where both parents are in blue-collar jobs on a collective wage agreement are no longer able to afford to buy a house in most parts of Sweden, according to a new report.
The stoppage of security transits in Sweden's major cities last weekend led government ministers to call for a reduction in the cost of using cards for payment instead of cash.
Over 1,000 children in Sweden are evicted from their homes each year. Many of them go on to lead an unsettled, itinerant existence, according to the first nationwide survey of the problem.
A 36 year old man from Visby on Gotland has become Sweden's biggest-ever lottery winner, picking up a tidy 122.9 million kronor. Now he says he wants to buy Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic for his local team.
Sweden, Finland and Denmark have, together with England, accounted for half of all price bubbles on the world property markets in the past 25 years, credit rating company Standard & Poor's has shown in a new study.
Private Swedish investors who choose so-called 'ethical funds' could be pouring their money into weapons, tobacco and booze, according to an investigation by the Fair Trade Center.
The operator of Sweden's stock exchange OM Gruppen AB is mulling over a bid for the London Stock Exchange PLC, and is sounding out potential advisers and partners, the Sunday Times reported, without citing sources.
A Swedish woman and her English husband have found it so tricky to find their dream home in Stockholm that they have sought outside help - from a popular British property-based television show.
Swedish house prices rose four percent between May and July, according to official figures released today. The average price of a detached, semi-detached or terraced house in Sweden is now 1.4 million kronor.
The Swedish Radio programme 'Kaliber' reported on Sunday that "almost all" Islamic schools and congregations in Sweden have contacted potential sponsors in Saudi Arabia. Many of these Saudi foundations ask for influence in return. However, an expert thinks the chances are slight that violent organisations will gain a foothold in Sweden's muslim communities.
Sweden’s property boom looks set to continue - but at a more moderate pace. This is according to the findings of a new "estate agents barometer" put together by Statistics Sweden (SCB) on behalf of SBAB, the Government-owned mortgage provider.
The average price of terraced houses and smaller semi-detached houses remained the same in the first quarter of 2005 compared to the final quarter of last year, according to Statistics Sweden.
Women risk having considerably lower pensions than men. The reason, according to a study by the alliance of insurance companies, Länsförsäkringar is quite simple: they're not saving enough.
Thousands of Swedes with a state-managed national savings account have been paid one billion kronor in error, it emerged on Friday. Now, the National Debt Office, which runs the saving scheme, wants the money back.
Legislation that will give lesbian couples the right to be inseminated and receive test tube fertilisation treatment on the Swedish health service appears to be imminent.
World Bank survey of 145 countries reveals that it is easy to buy a commercial property in Sweden, with it taking just two days to complete a transaction. Sweden ranked second after Norway while Croatia came last where, according to the survey, it takes 956 days to complete such a transaction.
A 69 year old man has been sentenced to five years in jail after subjecting his stepdaughter to violence and sexual abuse for eight years, according to Metro and Svenska Dagbladet.
