Right-wing extremist ideology is gaining ground among youths in Sweden owing in part to social media and its algorithms, with primarily boys and young men openly spreading antisemitic memes and hatred online, anti-racism watchdog Expo said on Tuesday..
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Sweden's right-wing Tidö bloc showed a united front at a press conference on Wednesday, after Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch promised not to back Magdalena Andersson as prime minister even if the alternative was a…
A Swedish court on Friday remanded a 20-year-old man in custody as the country's intelligence service said he was suspected of participating in a group linked to far-right extremism.
The leader of the Moderate Party's youth wing has called on the government to allow rejected asylum seekers who have successfully switched to a work permit to stay in Sweden, in a sign of a split in the ruling party over…
Following strong gains for the Moderate Party and the Sweden Democrats, a new poll has the right-wing side nearly four percentage points higher than their left-wing rivals.
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Senior politicians for the far-right Sweden Democrats have reacted to the party's poor election result by blaming immigrant voters and newly naturalised Swedish citizens voting for the first time. Is there any truth to t…
The terror threat against Sweden remains elevated (three on a five-point scale), according to the Swedish security service, Säpo. And the agency warns that Iran is continuing to recruit youth with gang connections to tar…
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson has his eyes set on roughly half of the seats in a future right-wing cabinet, including three of the following portfolios: finance, foreign, justice and defence.
The far-right Sweden Democrats will wield significant influence in government if the four centre-right parties win the September 2026 election, said Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
One party looks likely to drop out of parliament at the next election and there are splits in both the governing and opposition blocs on key issues. But will the current blocs even exist in the same form after the electi…
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A bitter blame game has erupted between leading Left Party and Centre Party MPs, with each accusing the other of squandering a chance to stop unfair deportations by blocking a Magdalena Andersson government.
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The Centre Party has hit back at the Left Party's ultimatum by throwing down its own gauntlet – giving it a deadline to announce whether it is willing to drop its demand for cabinet seats.