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This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Ida Karkiainen, migration spokesperson for the Social Democrats.
The government must take the initiative to ensure that homeowners do not risk being denied home insurance in places heavily affected by climate change and extreme weather, the Social Democrats said at a press conference on July 15th..
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This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Ida Karkiainen, migration spokesperson for the Social Democrats.
The Social Democrats are going to the polls on doubling the child and student allowance (barnbidrag and studiebidrag) before each Christmas and summer holiday.
The Social Democrats, Sweden's largest opposition party, has put its support behind a right-wing proposal to chemically castrate pedophiles.
Today's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Ludvig Aspling, migration spokesperson for the Sweden Democrats.
The opposition Social Democrats have launched their election programme just two weeks before Sweden goes to the polls, headlining it with a generous pledge for the state to cover the cost 90 percent of all adult dental c…
The Centre Party has said that it firmly opposes removing the unpaid 'deductible' first sick day off work, despite that being one of the Social Democrats' most important election promises.
Several windows were smashed and flammable liquid was poured outside the Social Democrats' premises in Sölvesborg on Tuesday night.
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson used his speech at the 2026 Almedalen political festival to attack the poll-leading Social Democrats on everything from crime to fuel prices.
The opposition Social Democrats have refused to join the Green Party, Left Party and Centre Party in a move to reinstate an abolished law to stop so-called teen deportations.
The Social Democrats have dropped their opposition to a government proposal to allow Swedish citizenship to be stripped from dual citizens convicted of crimes that seriously harm Sweden's "vital interests", saying that i…
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Parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlén has named Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist as the next person to lead government negotiations.
Henrik Landerholm, the childhood friend who Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson appointed national security adviser, has been found guilty of 'negligence with classified information' after a court overturned his not-g…
The 20 Filipino electrical engineers who were seized by Swedish police on October 9th and held in a Migration Agency detention centre have been released, with the company's lawyer calling the decision to detain them "unl…
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson has invited the Centre Party's Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist for a "no-strings-attached conversation on the parliamentary situation", posting an open letter on X.
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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.
The UK Prime Minister’s recent hints at rejoining the EU or its single market have sparked debate across Brussels and Westminster. But to what extent would a closer relationship actually change daily life for Brits in Eu…
The rollout of the EU's new Etias visa waiver has been delayed, but fake websites offering the service are catching out British travellers.
For The Local's Mandy Pipher, who grew up trick-or-treating on Toronto streets packed with jack-o-lanterns and costumed kids, the pale imitation of Halloween offered in Sweden would be better left in the grave.