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Sweden´s squad for Euro 2012 presented

Sports | 2012-05-16
Last Monday, the national team coach Erik Hamrén presented the squad that shall represent Sweden during the tournament.   Goalkeepers: #1... Full article

Woman from Poland disappeared in Stockholm

Stockholm | 2012-05-11
A Polish woman is missing in Sweden. She was last seen in Stockhom 20 April. A photo of the women is attached below. Her name is Agnieszka Mardyla... Full article

Trial of Malmö serial shooter initiated

Sweden | 2012-05-09
Peter Mangs has been detained for one and a half years while the Malmö police have carried out one of the biggest murder investigations ever.... Full article

First May 1st as party leaders for Löfven and Sjöstedt

Politics | 2012-05-02
Many people were interested in what the new opposition leader; the new chairman of the Social Democrats, would say when he spoke in Gothenburg.... Full article

Is youth unemployment and school-to-work transitions the coming major issue?

Chronicles/analysis | 2012-05-01
The usual argument is that the definition of unemployment is better suited for those in the core labour force, and less so for those entering or... Full article

Invited to Ministers´ dinner by mistake

Sweden | 2012-04-25
One of the invited was the former Minister for Agriculture Margareta Winberg. However, the government accidently invited the wrong person, a 67 year... Full article

Protests against Telia Sonera´s and Ericsson´s businesses in Belarus

Politics | 2012-04-25
After the Belarusian presidential election in December 2010, 50 000 people gathered at Independence square in central Minsk to protest against... Full article

Stockholm´s ice hockey need to gain lost ground

Sports | 2012-04-18 | 1 comment
First let us look at the contenders in the final. Skellefteå AIK from the city of Skellefteå in north Sweden has played 35 seasons in the... Full article

Work permits exploited by human traffickers

Sweden | 2012-04-11 | 2 comments
On December 15 2008, the centre-right government, together with the Greens, liberalised... Full article

Invoices and murders - scams linked to Malmö killings

Sweden | 2012-04-04 | 1 comment
The names of those murdered or subjected to attempted murder in Malmö for the past six months is like a list of who-is-who among south... Full article

Guest chronicle: The Social Democrats on the rise again

Politics | 2012-03-31 | 7 comments
Sometimes only two months may look like an eternity: As in Swedish politics of today. The common sense by then was that the Social Democrats was... Full article

Youth unemployment lacks political solution

Chronicles/analysis | 2012-03-28 | 2 comments
High youth unemployment is however not something new. One need go back to 1990, before the large Swedish... Full article

The Riksdag said Yes to Data Retention Directive

Politics | 2012-03-21 | 1 comment
The Data Retention Directive can be described as one of the post 9-11 anti-terrorist measures (More precisely, the idea came up after the terror... Full article

Sweden - a haven for insider traders

Chronicles/analysis | 2012-03-15
The theory behind a market is that prices are set by participants based on all available information. The market... Full article

Liberals want to extend the metro sytem

Stockholm | 2012-03-09 | 2 comments
Two top politicians from the Liberal Peoples’ Party (fp) have joined the debate about an extension of the metro system in Stockholm. Erik... Full article

Explosion in Gothenburg

Sweden | 2012-03-09 | 1 comment
There was an explosion yesterday near the restaurant Gamle Port in Gothenburg. The police suspect there was some kind of bomb that someone put there... Full article

Preview of the ice hockey play off

Sports | 2012-03-09 | 1 comment
Ice hockey is one of the two biggest sports in Sweden when it comes to audience and media attention (the other one is football (soccer)). Elitserien,... Full article

No Olympic application from Östersund

Sports | 2012-03-09 | 6 comments
The plans for Östersund to apply for the 2022 Winter Olympics seem to be canceled. The reason is lack of support from the government. Minister... Full article

Opposition makes police report

Stockholm | 2012-03-09 | 1 comment
Stockholm’s publically owned housing companies will sell 2900 of their apartments to private housing companies. Stockholm News has already... Full article

Taxi fares in Stockholm could be regulated

Stockholm | 2012-03-08 | 9 comments
"It is a problem especially for occasional visitors who get duped. It draws down the rating for Stockholm,” says Olle Zetterberg, CEO of... Full article

All parties were informed on Saudi arms factory

Politics | 2012-03-08 | 52 comments
In May 2010, the Export Control Council (EKR), where politicians from all political parties in the Riksdag are... Full article

Swede among the ten richest in the world

Economy | 2012-03-08 | 13 comments
Clothing store giant H&M's majority owner Stefan Persson is among the ten wealthiest in the world, according... Full article

Policemen investigated for misconduct following shootout

Stockholm | 2012-03-08
The policemen who in a shootout with robbers in central Stockholm on Tuesday shot eleven bullets, that ended up... Full article

Prime Minister Reinfeldt separates from wife

Politics | 2012-03-08 | 3 comments
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and his wife, County Commissioner Filippa Reinfeldt, separates. The separation was... Full article

Public housing apartments to become private

Stockholm | 2012-03-07 | 3 comments
Around 2,800 public housing apartments in Stockholm will be sold to private real estate concerns. This was decided today at the extra board meetings... Full article

Foreign companies blackmail apartment seekers

Stockholm | 2012-03-07
Most people who live (or want to live) in Stockholm know how difficult it may be to get a firsthand housing lease contract. Now, a new problem has... Full article

Time for hockey playoff

Sports | 2012-03-07
The prime hockey legue in Sweden, Elitserien, had its final (55th) round yesterday. The team Luleå from north Sweden won the league. Except for... Full article

More illiterates at Swedish language courses

Sweden | 2012-03-07 | 12 comments
An increasing number of the students at the Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) courses are illiterates according to the public radio broadcaster SR... Full article

Social Democrats above 30 percent

Politics | 2012-03-07 | 1 comment
Since the Social Democrats appointed Stefan Löfven as new leader in January, the polls have been rising. The latest poll by Skop further... Full article

Stockholm Stock Exchange plummeted

Economy | 2012-03-06
After a sour Tuesday morning, the Stockholm Stock Exchange continued to decline. When also the  New York Stock... Full article

Budget deficit could become SEK 11 billion

Economy | 2012-03-06
The economic slowdown will have an impact, albeit limited, on Sweden's public finances and borrowing, according to the National... Full article

Two found shot dead on farm

Sweden | 2012-03-06
Two people, a man and a woman, both around 75-years-old, has been found dead on a farm outside Avesta in Dalarna, north-western... Full article

Shots fired at robbery in Östermalm

Stockholm | 2012-03-06 | 8 comments
Shots were fired in connection with a robbery of a gold store at Engelbrektsplan in the Stockholm city district of... Full article

Sweden builds Saudi arms factory

Sweden | 2012-03-06 | 1 comment
The project has been going on under heavy secrecy since 2007, show documents that public radio SR... Full article

Investigation about Globen accident

Stockholm | 2012-03-05
The police are investigating what caused the accident in Globen during an Avicii concert last Friday. Several people got injured when a stand... Full article

Swede arrested in Norway

Sweden | 2012-03-05 | 1 comment
A 27 year old Swedish man has been arrested, suspected of beating a female door keeper to death outside a pub in south Norway. The man was very drunk... Full article

SDU wants to inform refugees about how to return

Politics | 2012-03-05
SDU has applied for SEK 100 000 from the Migration Board in order to prepare information sets with information about how to apply for the Migration... Full article

More housing for refugee children required

Sweden | 2012-03-05 | 1 comment
The number of refugee children who arrives to Sweden without an adult is expected to increase in the near future. One reason is the persistent... Full article

No strike among construction workers

Economy | 2012-03-05
The announced strike among construction workers has been called off. A bid from the mediators was accepted by both sides. The salary increase will be... Full article

Suspected knifeman turned over to Sweden

Sweden | 2012-03-04
The 28 year old man who is suspected of stabbing a ten year old girl in Gothenburg in February has been turned over to Sweden. The man was arrested... Full article


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