Swedes’ love of silence has saved us from the plague of talking unmanned supermarket checkouts — but its city centres need to turn up the volume, says James Savage..
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Sébastien LecornuFrankrikes premiärminister 2025–In this week's Politics in Sweden, Richard Orange argues that only one question will determine which candidate gets to be Sweden's next prime minister: the ultimate wishes of Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist…
This week’s Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Brenda and Marcus Ramström, a couple in western Sweden who spoke to The Local just days before she was forced to return to her native Brazil following a Migrat…
Police are warning drivers to take extra care, after a day of at least five fatal accidents in Sweden.
The opportunities for building or renovate a home in Sweden are mind-boggling, with empty plots galore and rural areas crammed with run-down houses. Are you building or renovating a property? We’d love to hear about your…
Palantir boss expands massive land grab in rural Sweden – and can the Centre Party break Sweden's political deadlock? Here's the latest news.
Newly married and expecting her first child, it should be the happiest year of Brenda Ramström's life. But tomorrow she's going to have to get on a flight back home to Brazil, not knowing when she'll be able to reunite w…
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.