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Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden.
Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden. This week's winner is Narangerel Davaasuren, from Mongolia, who snapped th…
Stockholm is set to get its first snowfall on Thursday, with large swathes of Sweden also expecting snow this week.
A lot of airline news recently has been about flight cancellations, due to fuel price spikes caused by the conflict in the Middle East. But some airlines are still adding flights for the spring and summer travel season.…
Snowy and windy conditions are coming later this week.Lyssna: Snow and sleet may be on the way in Sweden — here's where it might fallSnow and sleet are expected across large parts of Sweden towards the end of the week.It…
A large percentage of homeowners in Sweden have variable mortgages.Lyssna: Sweden sees first interest rate rise since 2023Sweden's central bank has raised its benchmark policy interest rate by a quarter of a point to 2%.…
Hamayun got a score of 90% in the citizenship test.Lyssna: 1022 ENG Sweden's first citizenship test: Relief for some, uncertainty over neEight out of ten participants passed Sweden's first citizenship civics knowledge te…
Eight out of ten people passed Sweden's first citizenship civics knowledge test, says Anders Sandberg.Lyssna: 1022 ENG Eight in ten pass Sweden's first citizenship civics knowledge testEight out of ten participants passe…
This week: Magdalena Andersson throws in the towel (for now), Brexit and the Migration Agency, Sweden's cake-baking speaker and how Sweden puts high school kids to work.
Videoklippet "Spring in Sweden" visar hur bloggerskan Jonna Jinton, iförd sommarklänning, pulsar ut i midjedjup snö för att hänga tvätt. Klippet har blivit en riktig klickraket och fått nästan två miljoner visningar på…
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PersonerBritain's ambassador to Sweden, Samantha Job, is set to meet the chair of the Swedish parliamentary committee responsible for immigration on November 11th, to discuss what can be done to help Brits refused post-Brexit re…
As of November 10th, passengers flying with Europe's biggest budget airline must check their luggage at least an hour before departure.
The Social Democrats and Green Party are due to meet with both the Centre Party and the Left Party today to discuss ways to overcome the obstacles to forming a viable government coalition.
Sweden's national weather agency, SMHI, has issued yellow weather warnings for snowfall on Thursday and Friday across parts of the country.
The Centre Party won the trust of foreign-born voters by promising to stand up for their rights and keep the Sweden Democrats out of power. If it abandons these central election pledges, many will see it as a betrayal th…
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson still has his eyes set on the prime minister role in four years' time – and SMHI issues yellow warnings for first major snowfall of the season. Here's the latest news on Wednesday.
Arguably untranslatable into English, svek covers a wide span of situations where trust has been breached, from treachery and betrayal to infidelity, to just letting someone else down.
This week's Sweden in Focus Extra podcast features an interview with Jackie Rulander, a cross-cultural strategist from Barbados who is based in Jönköping.
Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson has said that she is ready to again try to form a government – but needs more time.
On Friday, the Sweden Democrats dropped their demand for ministerial posts. The Left Party hasn’t budged on its own. Between them, they’ve given the Centre Party the cover it needs to back Ulf Kristersson as the least il…