'Please don't be angry with us, we just love Eurovision too much," went the chorus of the cabaret number Sweden's host Petra Mede performed at Thursday's semi-final with Schlager start Charlotte Perelli. But did they really explain Sweden's Eurovision obsession?. Läs mer på The Local
In this week's podcast: Bias against northern Sweden, learn some Lucia songs, Mark Zuckerberg reported to the police in Sweden over Facebook ads, and Swedish migration law updates in 2026.
The Local's Emma Löfgren tries to make sense of why Sweden doesn't have a new government, 34 days after the election, before running through the rest of this week's stories.
Why did it take almost a full week for the Swedish election results to come out? Here, we explain how the Swedish Electoral Authority counts votes and delve into why this year took a bit longer.
In this week's podcast: PM says Sweden Democrats will get migration minister position if right wins election, inside Sweden's deportation centres, high-skilled workers losing trust in Sweden, and why is competition a dir…
Sweden's government last week ordered the Migration Agency to produce another list of professions to exempted from the new, higher salary threshold for a work permit, barely six months after ordering a similar list. Why…
The sportlov school holidays are synonymous with ski trips for many families, although the high prices mean they can also be one of the year’s most expensive weeks. How much do prices differ between resorts?
Sweden's public broadcasters are under attack from the right. James Savage asks whether attacks on Sweden's public broadcasters could prove counter-productive.
The Local Sweden's deputy editor Becky Waterton spent her Sunday running over the bridge between Sweden and Denmark in a half marathon to celebrate the bridge's 25th anniversary. She explains what the bridge means to her…
Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, has cut the key interest rate from 1.75 percent to 2 percent, with more increases expected in the new year. Does this mean that its time to switch to a fixed mortgage?
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson has announced that his party will unconditionally 'tolerate' Ulf Kristersson as prime minister, dropping its demand for both ministerial positions or policy promises. What does this…
Britain'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…
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.
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.
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…
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