Ever felt like spending your summers lounging around on your own island? Or have you always wanted to build a James Bond-style supervillain fort in the middle of the Stockholm archipelago? The process is more complicated than you might expect..
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Micael Stohm, who normally works as a breakdown recovery driver, has gone viral in Sweden after building his own island – in the shape of a penis.
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Volodymyr ZelenskyjUkrainas president 2019–
Nina LarssonSvensk politiker
Ulf KristerssonSveriges statsminister 2022–
Magdalena AnderssonSveriges statsminister 2021–2022
Carl-Oskar BohlinSvensk politiker
Abu DhabiHuvudstad i Förenade Arabemiraten och i emiratet Abu Dhabi
Andreas NorlénSvensk jurist och politiker (moderat)
Thomas MassieAmerikansk politiker
Anders YgemanSvensk politikerArguably 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…
Sweden's parliament is set to vote on Wednesday to change the constitution to make it possible for dual citizens convicted of 'crimes that seriously harm Sweden's vital interests' to be stripped of their Swedish citizens…
Hundreds of thousands of SAS passengers may have had their booking details exposed in a massive data breach.
Stockholm is set to get its first snowfall on Thursday, with large swathes of Sweden also expecting snow this week.
Blue-collar unions are putting pressure on the Left Party to drop its demand for ministerial posts – and 350,000 SAS passengers hit by major data breach. Here's the latest news on Tuesday.
More than 50 days after the election, Sweden's government negotiations are suddenly moving fast, with the Centre Party currently playing the role of king-maker. What do you think of it all?
The Sweden Democrats' bombshell decision to drop its demand for cabinet posts and the Centre Party's threat to switch sides sparked a flurry of activity from Sweden's political parties over the weekend. But what are the…
