http://www.stockholmnews.comLatest news from Stockholm News, daily Swedish news in English.enCopyright 2008- Stockholm NewsEarlier this week representatives for two Danish government parties suggested that international election inspectors should be sent to the Swedish elections. One of their arguments was the Swedish system with different ballots for the different...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5880Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:37:39 GMTThe red-green opposition presented their joint election manifesto at a press conference today. Much of the content had already been presented in advance. The red-greens (the Social democrats, the greens and the Left party) repeated their previous...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5872Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:25:08 GMTThe red-green opposition in Stockholm wants to close Bromma airport if they win the election. This said the local Social democratic leader Carin Jämtin in an interview with ABC regional news yesterday. Jämtin claims Bromma Airport is located too...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5871Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:41:07 GMTThe Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic was presented as an AC Milan player yesterday. Ibrahimovic thereby leaves Barcelona after just one year. - I am in Milan to win trophies. This year we will win everything said Ibrahimovic to international...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5866Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:45:39 GMTThe Swedish Finance Inspectorate (FI) today revoked the licence of investment bank HQ. FI believes that the bank violated rules already in 2008, but despite reminders, the bank did not act until last spring. “The bank has grossly breached the most...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5862Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:38:37 GMTWhat is the general picture of Sweden abroad? Is it a result of Swedish lobby organisations or the historical performance of Sweden as a country? These issues were discussed at a seminar in Visby Gotland this summer arranged by the Board for the...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5860Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:51 GMTThe three parties of the red-green opposition have reached an agreement on the Swedish force in Afghanistan. The plan is to initiate a gradual pull back of the force in 2011 and completely in 2013. The three opposition parties, the Social democrats,...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5857Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:04:26 GMTThe governing parties are ready to spend SEK 12.8 billion on various reforms in the coming year. Among else SEK three billion in tax breaks, mainly for senior citizens. This became clear today when the centre-right Alliance party coalition presented...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5851Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:10:52 GMTA new survey in Stockholm shows that the centre-right alliance who is currently governing in Stockholm is ten percentage units ahead of the red-green opposition. But the remarcable about the survey is the explosive increase of the Green party....http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5845Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:32:37 GMTThe homepages of Sweden Democrats and of the Social Democratic Youth Section have been a target for attacks during the last days. 'Overload attack' on Sweden Democrats' web pages Since Thursday evening, the web pages of the nationalistic...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5840Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:33:12 GMTThe one million dollar question of these weeks until the parliamentary election next month is of course – which side will win? The redgreen parties or the Alliance? In the last weeks the former redgreen lead in the polls turned upside down and now...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5839Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:43:52 GMTSwedish and international media have today published the news that the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, first was charged in his absence on suspicion of rape and molestation in Stockholm, something the chief prosecutor later pulled back. Assange...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5838Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:51:17 GMTThe Swedish Minister for EU-affairs Birgitta Ohlsson would consider sanctions against France because of the way they treat Romani people. She said this in an interview with the Swedish television (SvT) yesterday. The French government has hired...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5830Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:08:16 GMTThe number of applicants to Swedish universities increases strongly. The probable explanation is the increase of foreign students. The number of applicants to the spring semester's master programmes  has increased with 124 percent and to the...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5828Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:03:54 GMTFor over an hour, the air traffic controllers in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden was not able to come in contact with the passenger aircraft that was heading for Arlanda Airport, north of Stockholm. The Swedish Air Force then sent two fighter jets to...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5824Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:41:27 GMTNew routines in Malmö, south Sweden, make it more difficult for the police to find illegal immigrants, who usually come to Sweden through Malmö. According to daily newspaper Sydsvenskan, Malmö municipality has decided to change the routines when...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5815Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:23:41 GMTThe prices on real estate in Sweden are showing signs of stagnating. The house prices in the Stockholm region have fallen with four percent during the last month according to Mäklarstatistik (statistics from real estate agents). The strong house...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5812Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:46:44 GMTTonight is the night for the yearly MidNight race in Stockholm. 21 000 runners will occupy the streets of south Stockholm from 10 pm. The MidNight run 2009. Photo: Wikipedia The Mid night race has been arranged since 1982. The distance is exactly 10...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5807Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:45:51 GMTA 63 year old Swedish pedophile will spend the next six and a half years in a prison in Cambodia. The sentence was confirmed by a court yesterday. The man was earlier this year convicted for raping his adoptive son and two other children. He appealed...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5799Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:51:48 GMTAn increasing number of women are raped during the summer. So far this year, the number of reported rapes in the country increased by 25 per cent, compared with last summer. According to the Swedish Council for Crime Prevention was 1,091 rapes...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=5798Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:29:40 GMT