The Sweden Democrats party has overtaken the ruling Social Democrats to top an opinion poll for the first time in Sweden, which represents a new landmark for the far-right party.
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD), which is likely to pick up major gains in Sunday’s election, has announced that it will boycott broadcaster SVT for the station’s controversial decision to weigh in on opinions aired in a Friday night debate.
The far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) on Friday said their leader Jimmie Åkesson has received a letter with a death threat as the party is on course to win record support in Sunday's legislative election.
Barring a major upset, Sweden's far-right is on course for a record result in September 9 legislative elections, capitalising on the mood of voters who feel they are being left behind in favour of hundreds of thousands of newly-arrived asylum seekers.
Leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats Jimmy Åkesson has reiterated his party’s support for a “Swexit” referendum on Sweden’s EU membership, in an interview on state broadcaster Sveriges Radio.
Sweden's far-right party is rejoicing: long shunned by the political establishment, it has suddenly been invited in from the cold by a main opposition party eyeing a return to power -- and Swedish politics is all shook up.
Stockholm’s Grand Hotel has issued an unprecedented public apology for hosting an awards ceremony for European right-wing politicians, following a storm of angry protest.
Nigel Farage, the unofficial leader of the campaign to bring Britain out of the EU, has told Swedish nationalists that he will return to British politics if he feels Brexit is betrayed.
The leader of Sweden’s centre-right Moderate Party has shut the door on cooperating with the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, describing them as “racist”, following a week of scandals within the populist party.
A growing majority of voters for Sweden’s four-party centre-right Alliance support working with the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats to drive through policy in the parliament, according to a new poll.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has knocked down suggestions that he let the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrat party join cross-party talks, saying its white supremacist roots meant it was "not a party like the others".
Sweden's anti-immigration party leader Jimmie Åkesson has recorded a cover of a Christian soft rock song, but the man who wrote it has told The Local he'll give away any composer royalties to charities helping refugees in the Nordics.
The leader of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats on Saturday hailed the Nordic country's dramatic tightening of asylum policy, arguing that it would open the way for his party to join a future right-wing government.
After Sweden's anti-immigration party announced it planned to put off refugees with adverts in foreign media, Swedes rushed to Twitter to make fun of the idea. Here's our pick of their jokes.
Stefan Löfven gave an olive branch to leaders of the opposition in a heated parliament debate on Wednesday which focused mainly on the escalating refugee crisis.
The new youth wing of the nationalist Sweden Democrats has caused a stir after adopting the same name used by the centre-right Moderate party back in the 1930s and 1940s.
Gustav Kasselstrand, the former chairman of the Sweden Democrats’ youth wing, the SDU, has called for Jimmie Åkesson to resign following the nationalist party leader’s decision to shut down SDU and initiate a new youth wing.
In his keynote summer speech on Saturday in his hometown of Sölvesborg, Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats, predicted that his party would one day be strong enough to run the country and called for a referendum on immigration.
The nationalist Sweden Democrat party's leader Jimmie Åkesson has told his nation's biggest political conference that he wants to create a better county for children and crack down on extremism.
Top Sweden Democrat politician Richard Jomshof tells The Local all refugees must become fluent in Swedish but “it’s okay” for foreign businesspeople to use English instead. He's also rooting for the UK to quit the EU.
The Sweden Democrats now have the support of one in five Swedish voters, according to two major polls released on Thursday demonstrating record backing for the nationalist party.
Several lay judges appointed by Sweden's third biggest political party, the Sweden Democrats, could face internal investigation and some have been forced to step down after claims they made racist comments online.
Friday night’s prime time interview with returning Sweden Democrat head Jimmie Åkesson on the Swedish TV talk show Skavlan has resulted in a storm of complaints over the weekend both on home soil and in Norway, where the programme is also broadcast.
Despite reports in the Swedish media over the weekend suggesting that the leader of Sweden's nationalist party, Jimmie Åkesson, was set to resign this week, sources within the Sweden Democrats have suggested he's set for a comeback.
