Living and working in Sweden's cashless society is easy and convenient -- until, that is, you need to get hold of or handle cash. A new law that came in force on January 1st aims to force banks to continue to offer cash services. Here's what it means for you.
Not many people can say that their time in Sweden started with being in the same room as Paul Simon, First Aid Kit, Yo-Yo Ma and Swedish royalty, but that's exactly how Georg Bungard's move to the Nordic nation got under way, with his now wife Mia Salazar eventually following.
When British expats Laura Hinton and Tyrone Poh-Janrell found there was no place to go for a good brunch in Stockholm they decided to take matters into their own hands. The Local spoke to the owners of the Greasy Spoon cafe for this week's My Swedish Career.
April saw Sweden's Feminist Initiative (Fi) party add another percentage point to its voter support, edging closer to the parliamentary threshold just days after 52 percent of Swedes said they'd like to see the upstart party in government.
Sweden's upstart feminist party on Monday welcomed news it had increased its voter support fivefold, but the social media savvy politicians still need a proper bump to get over the parliamentary threshold.
Former Abba star Benny Andersson has donated another 100,000 kronor ($15,468) to Sweden's Feminist Initiative party urging "We need them in parliament!" ahead of the 2014 general election.
In our series profiling Swedish newsmakers, our pick for Swede of the Week is firebrand feminist Gudrun Schyman, who wants to return to national politics to fight surging sexism and a lulling labour market.
Swedish silver screen stalwart Max von Sydow, 82, became one of the oldest Academy Award nominees ever on Tuesday, while "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" star Rooney Mara was nominated in the best actress category.
A woman from Stockholm who recently picked up some soiled pages in a country field in western Sweden could hardly believe her eyes when she realized she was holding a love letter written in July 1862.
Letting Swedes hold on to their account numbers when switching banks is one way to put pressure on banks thought to be gouging customers with high margins on variable rate mortgages, financial markets minister Peter Norman said Thursday.
The board of embattled financial concern HQ Bank, including founder Mats Qviberg, have resigned a day after the bank announced the extent of the losses incurred by the closure of its trading portfolio.
Swedish investment firm Öresund has been has been authorized by the Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen - FI) to buy its investment fund operation HQ Fonder.
Financial services group HQ must immediately strengthen its finances and will temporarily sell its fund management company HQ Fonder to its principal owner Öresund for 850 million kronor ($105.07 million).
Sweden's Feminist Initiative has again refused to rule out standing in future elections, despite accepting state aid to which political parties are not entitled.
If Sweden’s Feminist Initiative gets its way, the government might have to cough up billions of kronor to create a fund to help businesses raise women’s salaries.
Sweden's feminist party, the Feminist Initiative, has enlisted the help of actress and activist Jane Fonda and Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler, as it tries to get elected to the Riksdag in elections in September.
Unfair differences in pay between men and women is the leading priority in the Feminist Initiative's (FI) election manifesto. Companies which operate discriminatory pay policies should be prevented from operating, according to the FI.
Professor Tiina Rosenberg has been accused of plagiarism by political scientist, Johan Tralau. In an article in the journal Axess, Tralau claims "gender politics comes before academic rigour". He uses Rosenberg, a leading member of the new Feminist Initiative party, as an example of the politicisation of academia.
The well-known feminist commentator Ebba Witt-Brattström is leaving the board of the Feminist Initiative, the political group and soon-to-be party which she helped to start up. Internal disagreements are said to be behind her departure.
The board of Sweden's fledgling feminist party, the Feminist Initiative (FI), have declared that they want to see a man sitting alongside them as part of a shared leadership group. But the man FI most desires has said that he is not interested.
