http://www.stockholmnews.comLatest news from Stockholm News, daily Swedish news in English.enCopyright 2008- Stockholm NewsSeven people have been arrested in Ireland on suspicion of involvement in an assassination plot against the Swedish artist Lars Vilks. The Irish police announced in a press release. Those arrested, four men and three women, were arrested after an...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4957Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:29 GMTDuring the last years and even more the last weeks, a debate about conservatism and mainly among conservatives has evolved in Sweden. It may seem that the revival of conservatism is somehow odd, since the cultural and political debate in Sweden is...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4956Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:34:58 GMTToday is the International Women´s Day. In many parts of the world, this is the day when the woman in the family is celebrated by her husband with flowers, cooking and presents. In Sweden, this day has instead become the day when women´s situation is...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4949Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:53:54 GMTTwenty American fighter jets may practice bombing on Swedish territory in June. This according to Riksdagen´s news source Riksdag och Departement. The exercise is planned to take place in the northern part of Sweden. The Swedish Armed forces will...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4948Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:13:10 GMTAt least three persons are believed to have frozen to death in the Uppsala region north of Stockholm last night, a night that was extremely cold. A nineteen year old man has been found dead in Skutskär. He is believed to have fallen asleep...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4944Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:24:31 GMTNever before Stockholm City has made this much money on parking fees. P-fines increased by 55 percent last year. But Stockholmers and visitors will have to continue to pay, it will be even more expensive to use a car in the city. In the mid-90s it...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4939Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:57:15 GMT Mats Odell. Photo: Pawel Flato The government has appointed a commission that will develop recommendations regarding the use of social media for public employees. Facebook, and to smaller extent Twitter, have become part of many people’s life....http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4931Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:08:18 GMTA thirteen year old boy has been found dead in a deep shaft at Slussen in Stockholm. The incident is believed to be an accident. The boy was probably interested in the Urban exploration movement. They want to explore hidden rooms, caves and similar...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4930Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:46:56 GMTUnless the influx of new wolves to Sweden works and is accepted, there will be no more wolf hunts. Minister for the Envíronment, Andreas Carlgren, today sharpened the tone against hunters who do not want to accept new wolves. At the same time the...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4928Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:10:28 GMTLast year was a better year than previously expected for Swedish municipalities and regions according to new figures from Statistics, Sweden. The aggregated surplus for all municipalities was SEK 11.7 billion. This is 4.7 billion more than in 2008....http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4920Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:41:11 GMTThe Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt will visit Russia next week to meet President Dimitrij Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The relations between Sweden and Russia have been rather...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4918Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:19:01 GMTThe first of July this year Sweden will phased out the system of general conscription. Instead, the sub-officers, soldiers and sailors will be employed in war units. Next year the Armed Forces will thus become one of the country´s largest recruiters....http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4917Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:24:27 GMTThe support from the language centre in Stockholm (Språkcentrum) to help immigrant children maintain their mother-tongue has dramatically decreased. This according to public radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR). The reason is believed to be the new...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4908Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:45:30 GMTLast week, Elite Hotel in Stockholm was convicted to pay SEK 90 000 in damage for discrimination writes the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. In 2005 a group of people wanted to proof that immigrants and other people with a non-traditional Swedish...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4903Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:30:30 GMTThe researcher Birgitta Almgren at Södertörn University College in Stockholm request that a list of 50 Stasi collaborators should be released in order for a research project. But the Swedish Secret Service refuses to let go of the classified files...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4901Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:27:08 GMTThe former coach for the Swedish national football team, Lars Lagerbäck, has signed a five months contract with Nigeria, a country that is qualified for this summer’s world cup in South Africa. Lars Lagerbäck took Sweden to five successive...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4896Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:35:12 GMT Sven-Otto Littorin. Photo: Pawel Flato The government is proposing that 135 000 unemployed persons shall get internships this year. Fifty percent of them, 65 000 shall be placed with a public employer (for example an authority). The extent of the...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4894Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:56:47 GMTThe center-left opposition would get a majority of the seats in parliament (Riksdagen) if there was an election today. This is shown in an opinion poll presented in the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The Social Democrats, the Greens and the Left...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4890Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:48:49 GMTThe increase of anti-Semitism in Malmö, south Sweden, has recently been highlighted by both Swedish and foreign media. Some comments by Mayor Ilmar Reepalu about the situation have been increasingly condemned. Today he met representatives from the...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4889Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:37:52 GMTIs the Swedish electoral system fair or are there shortcomings that disfavor smaller parties? The question is asked in the Danish newspaper Politiken by Birgitta Wistrand, Swedish researcher and former parliamentarian and Jørgen Elklit, Danish...http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4879Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:45:38 GMT