Should parents stay away from booze during the festive season? A Christmas anti-alcohol campaign has gained record support in Sweden, with one mum saying she received online abuse after criticizing it.
The Swedish government have said they intend to tighten the regulations over online sales and the home delivery of alcohol after the monopoly of Systembolaget was challenged by supermarket City Gross.
With many Swedes nursing headaches on Saturday following an evening of revelry to celebrate Midsummer's Eve, one Swedish physician has brought some bad news - there is no such thing as a hangover cure.
Express delivery firm DHL has been criticised for having handed over a load of alcohol ordered from Germany to a 10-year-old boy in southern Sweden who was home alone at the time.
Despite the introduction of a new law strengthening the powers of customs officials, the number of seizures of alcohol ordered online has declined dramatically in 2013.
While viewing an acquaintance's small illicit alcohol still, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly ponders the surprising reticence of northern Swedes to drink in company.
Police in Stockholm are looking to beef up efforts to put the brakes on a “vodka-mobile” that delivers hard liquor to school children in the Swedish capital who place their orders via text message.
More than 80 people were charged on Tuesday for participating in a comprehensive smuggling operation that brought huge quantities of alcohol purchased in Germany into Sweden.
Women alcoholics suffer damage to the part of their brain that controls moods, impulses and sleep three times faster than their male counterparts, a Swedish study showed Wednesday.
Tired of Sweden's high alcohol taxes and the state run liquor monopoly? Come along with contributor <b>Patrick Reilly</b> as he details a recent journey to Germany in search of cheap beer.
Norway caught two Poles attempting to smuggle in almost 15,000 litres of contraband alcohol via Sweden, the biggest seizure of its kind since 2002, customs authorities said on Monday.
A 36-year-old Swedish man who confessed to driving while drunk has been acquitted because of uncertainty caused by the way a nurse took a blood sample.
The smuggling of spirits and beer into Sweden has dropped by 35 percent during the first half of the year, according to researchers at Stockholm University.
Alcohol consumption in Sweden dropped this year for the first time since 1996, with drink imports from abroad taking the hardest hit, a Swedish researcher told AFP on Friday.
The Stockholm court playing host to the "Systembolaget bribery" trial has decided that the managing director of alcohol wholesaler Vin-Trägårdh is too sick to take part in the proceedings, which began on Monday.
Despite strict rules on importing alcohol to Sweden, the risk that wine or spirits which have been ordered online from abroad will be confiscated by customs is practically zero.
Love it, hate it, or love to hate it, Sweden’s famed alcohol retail monopoly often divides opinion among the Swedes. But over half of those questioned in a new survey say they want Systembolaget to stay.
