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.
UPDATED: Children born in England are one-and-a-half times more likely to die before they reach the age of five than those born in Sweden, according to a new study published in The Lancet.
Sweden's Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson presented the government's new budget proposal on Tuesday alongside the ambitious goal of ensuring there is no budget deficit by 2018 – one year earlier than previously planned.
At the Social Democrats' annual municipality conference in Örebro this weekend, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven told his fellow Swedes that the much-vaunted Swedish model needed to be reinforced and developed and assured the country's welfare workers that they would benefit from increased investment.
Swedish parents who stay at home with sick children get paid at least 80 percent of their salary. But after a crackdown by the Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan), hundreds of Swedish mums and dads have been told to pay back a record 14.8 million kronor ($1.7m) to the state.
A string of digital reforms could help Sweden cut the bulging costs of elderly care, as baby boomers retire and life expectancy continues to climb, a new report found. But not without broadband upgrades.
Sweden is spending more money than ever on the public sector according to a new study. But the typical Swede still believes things were better in the eighties.
High taxes, high social security, such has been the identity of the "Nordic Model", yet hard times and ideological bents have propelled Europe's northern politicians to reform the cradle-to-the-grave system, argues AFP.
Sweden's powerful blue collar trade union group LO has scrapped its quest to regulate profits for businesses operating in the welfare sector, signaling instead that it's open to negotiating a solution.
Sweden's decision to welcome Bulgarians and Romanians back in 2007 has benefited state coffers, new Gothenburg University research revealed on Tuesday. The UK, the Swedish economist argued, stands to benefit even more.
A high-profile financier has withdrawn his support from the Social Democrats, stating that both the opposition and the government risk populist pandering with moves to curtail profits in the welfare sector.
Thousands of Swedes report their neighbours and relatives for benefits fraud each year, accounting for nearly half of all reports about suspected social insurance malfeasance.
While the recent scandal about unfair admissions practices at Sweden's free schools may be overblown, the revelations make it clear that the involvement of private players in Sweden's welfare sector needs to be improved, argues liberal commentator <b>Nima Sanandaji</b>.
Politicians and pundits love to praise Sweden, but sometimes they go a bit too far in relishing and embellishing the country's national myth, argues historian and liberal commentator <b>David Lindén</b>.
Tax cuts and the sale of the health care system to venture capitalists signify a new, dangerous spirit of egoism that threatens to ruin Sweden's once cherished welfare state, warns Swedish rapper, actor, and writer <b>Dogge Doggelito</b>.
A tax hike for a high-profile firm of Swedish venture capitalists has financial observers worried that the recent focus on their income could cause bad blood among investors.
More young Swedes are depressed than ever before, a new mental health report has shown, with socio-economic factors upping the chance of dangerous risk-taking and suicide.
Sweden's Green Party has discarded its long-standing policy of a guaranteed minimum income, or 'citizenship income', according to a decision at the party's congress in Västerås in eastern Sweden.
Löfven was formerly appointed as party chairman by the party's governing board (partistyrelsen) at the beginning of 2012. That choice was upheld by party members on Thursday.
A 47-year-old who went on holiday in Egypt while posing as handicapped in Sweden and claiming millions in benefits has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt blamed the Social Democrats for Sweden's growing wealth gap following the publication on Monday of a report showing that Swedes are nevertheless much better off today than they were a decade ago.
The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) has proposed a new type of company that would limit profits made in the tax-funded welfare sector, in a move that goes against the line of their traditional political ally, the opposition Social Democrat Party.
