The Social Democrats want to launch a fast-track investigation into residency for people who have lived in the country for a long time in a bid to solve teen deportation and Brexit cases, the party's migration spokesperson has told The Local.
The Social Democrats are planning to launch a government inquiry which will carry out a major review of the country's migration legislation, arguing that years of piecemeal reforms have made the rules unnecessarily complicated and contradictory.
The Social Democratic party has been Sweden's largest political force for over a century but has also seen its share of voter support declining since the 1970s. Can it retake power in September and can it top the lacklustre result it got in 2022?
The opposition Social Democrats have proposed combining vocational training with Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) classes to help new arrivals in Sweden get into work faster.
The Local's Nordic Editor Richard Orange surveys Sweden's Social Democrat party congress over the weekend and argues that the party swung neither to the left nor to the right, and that while it was not "totally new", it didn't stay exactly the same either.
The leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats on Saturday said he was "reaching out a hand" to Magdalena Andersson, leader of the Social Democrats, calling on the two parties to cooperate on issues where they "think alike".
The leader of Sweden's Social Democrat opposition has backed the harsh new policies on crime and immigration included in the new government's programme, and even signalled openness to the much-criticised begging ban.
Justice Minister Morgan Johansson is the face of the Social Democrats' new tougher position on crime and, arguably, also immigration. The Local caught up with him on the campaign trail in Kalmar.
Sweden's Prime Minister has restated her determination to reduce housing segregation in the country's cities, while underlining that this does not have to mean "forcibly moving people".
Prime minister Magdalena Andersson is caught between a rock and a hard place, argues David Crouch. To hold her bloc together, she must eschew the politics that brought the Social Democrats success in Denmark.
The Social Democrats rolled out their election campaign on Thursday, focusing heavily on leader Magdalena Andersson, law and order, and jobs, and dropping the environment as a priority.
The Nato debate has put the party machinery of Sweden's Social Democrats in the spotlight. It's fairly clear the leader, Magdalena Andersson, wants Sweden to join, so why is it all so complicated?
Sweden's Prime Minister has said that her party has brought forward the date for a decision on Nato membership by ten days, meaning a decision could be in place before a state visit by Finland's president in mid-May.
Sweden’s ruling Social Democrat party has deactivated its Twitter account, saying it disliked the platform's "debate climate" and aimed to focus instead on being "out on the streets and in public squares to meet people”.
Sweden's ruling party aims to end its internal discussion over Nato membership on May 12th, after which the party's ruling committee will take a final decision, the party announced after holding a "marathon meeting" in the Swedish parliament.
Sweden's Social Democrats are holding a "marathon meeting" this Friday on whether to join the Nato security alliance. The party's parliamentary group is joining its main leadership committee to thrash out the contentious issue.
Just before Christmas, Sweden's finance minister Magdalena Andersson declared that the coronavirus crisis marked "the end of the era of Neoliberalism". But for Daniel Suhonen, the leading ideologue of the Social Democrats' left flank, the party needs concrete policies as well as words.
A group of Social Democrats have started a left-wing movement within their party to put pressure on its leader, who signed a deal with former opposition rivals in order to govern.
Sweden finally got a new government this week after 131 days of deadlock. In order to get there, several parties had to compromise, and a four-party deal was struck between former rivals. So how has the new agreement affected the popularity of the different political parties?
Sweden has gone almost three months since its election without a new government. A new key survey now indicates which parties have gained from the low-key turmoil – and which have lost.
It is highly likely that next Wednesday Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson will become the first prime ministerial candidate in modern times to be rejected by Sweden’s parliament.
A local politician representing the Social Democrats in Sävsjö has given up their candidacy after writing a Facebook post in Arabic that spread false information about opposing political parties.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has called for higher taxes on the “very richest” people in Sweden, moving his Social Democrat party back onto traditional class politics in the final three weeks of the election campaign.
Sweden’s ruling Social Democrats have pledged to funnel four billion kronor ($450m) extra a year to the country’s poorest pensioners, in a Labour Day announcement aimed at this September’s election.
