In the meeting, the Liberals are expected to come up with a new position statement on the party's openness to working with a government that includes the hard-right Sweden Democrats. The issue is dividing top figures in the party..
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Expectations are low as the red-green parties gather for their first meeting following the September 13th election, as there are still no signs of a breakthrough in Sweden's government formation deadlock.
"They have many members who do not see me as Swedish," Liberal party leader Simona Mohamsson is heard saying of the Sweden Democrats, in SVT audio of an internal meeting of the party's Stockholm association.
This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features analysis of the Liberal Party's decision to no longer oppose far-right Sweden Democrat inclusion in a future government.
Here's a summary of "The Sweden Promise" – the controversial new deal between the Liberals and the Sweden Democrats.
The Sweden Democrats are the biggest losers in the general election, with the party losing ground in 285 of Sweden's 290 municipalities.
It’s not clear who won this election, but it’s clear who lost: the Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats. The spell that the Sweden Democrats have cast over Swedish politics over the past sixteen years has been broke…
Today's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Ludvig Aspling, migration spokesperson for the Sweden Democrats.
This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Ida Karkiainen, migration spokesperson for the Social Democrats.
The share of the vote won by the populist Sweden Democrats has grown in every parliamentary election since it entered parliament in 2010. Can it extend its winning streak and can it achieve its goal of getting ministers…
Sweden's Liberals bill themselves as the party of individual freedom. But will they even make it into parliament after the election?
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Every year, tens of thousands of people sit högskoleprovet, the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test, the results of which can be used on university applications. Take The Local's English-ified version of the Swedish vocabul…
Sweden's centre-left parties have reached an agreement on how to draft a emergency law halting so-called "teenage deportations".
The Local's reader survey on what life is like for foreign-born researchers in Sweden revealed as many big pluses as major minuses.
Sweden's first citizenship test on civic knowledge was held on August 15th 2026, with close to 1,000 people from across the country sitting for it in the Stockholm area. Now that the results are finally in, what do they…
Tributes paid to youth worker, 24, shot dead at Stockholm sports hall – Sweden issues emergency cybersecurity warning over global PHP crisis. Here's the latest news.
Matilda Molander, head of the green and liberal think tank Fores, shook up Sweden's political world last week with an article outlining the painful concessions the Sweden Democrats might need to make for the Centre Party…
Sweden on Wednesday charged a man described by media as a top gang boss with masterminding a slew of violent attacks, as the country sees a reduction in its decade-long organised crime wave.
Some 44 members of the European Parliament from 15 different EU countries and six political groups have called on EU transport ministers to break the deadlock and get the plan to end the seasonal changing of the clocks m…
The Social Democrats, Centre Party, Green Party, Christian Democrats, and Liberals have agreed to govern Region Stockholm together.
