New EU data has revealed that the residents of Stockholm and its surrounding region live longer lives than people in any other region in the Nordics with the exception of Åland. What's the reason for the difference?. Läs mer på The Local
Laura Hall, author of new memoir The Year I Lay My Head in Water, explains for The Local what she learnt about herself after spending a year wild swimming in Scandinavia.
Det var en ljus sommarkväll och folkfest när både Hurula och The soundtrack of our lives spelade i Humlehagen. Ett upplägg som i teorin borde skapat en riktig succékväll. Men just avsaknaden av stämningsfullt mörker ble…
The number of people acquiring the citizenship of a European country has increased massively compared to a decade ago. Experts say that the trend has accelerated in recent years due various factors.
Sweden's prosecution authority said on Tuesday the personal data of 1.5 million people had been leaked online after a cyberattack against an IT systems provider.
The leader of the Moderate Party's youth wing, Douglas Thor, tells The Local why he is pushing for the age at which the children of people in Sweden on work permits can apply for residency as a dependent to be extended f…
Data engineer Robin Åsén has started a petition against the datacentre project planned in Northvolt's former industrial area.Lyssna: Robin is fighting against Skellefteå's planned AI data centreEmissions are increasing a…
The research led to new discoveries around the development of Old Norse in Scandinavia.Lyssna: New clues to the origins of the Vikings and their language uncoveredInternational researchers have examined ancient DNA to le…
Fredrik Hagerman is a GP and the chair of Kalmar county's pharmaceutical committee.Lyssna: Can't get certain cough medicines in Sweden? Here's whyMany of Sweden's regions are recommending against prescribing patients cou…
This week: Why are the Social Democrats acting like bit players? Why have a mother-to-be and an active father been told to leave Sweden? Are immigration laws scaring off foreign workers? And what do you need to know abou…
Why did it take almost a full week for the Swedish election results to come out? Here, we explain how the Swedish Electoral Authority counts votes and delve into why this year took a bit longer.
Britain's ambassador to Sweden, Samantha Job, is set to meet the chair of the Swedish parliamentary committee responsible for immigration on November 11th, to discuss what can be done to help Brits refused post-Brexit re…
The Social Democrats and Green Party are due to meet with both the Centre Party and the Left Party today to discuss ways to overcome the obstacles to forming a viable government coalition.
The Centre Party won the trust of foreign-born voters by promising to stand up for their rights and keep the Sweden Democrats out of power. If it abandons these central election pledges, many will see it as a betrayal th…
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson still has his eyes set on the prime minister role in four years' time – and SMHI issues yellow warnings for first major snowfall of the season. Here's the latest news on Wednesday.
Arguably 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.
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…
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Nina LarssonSvensk politiker
Volodymyr ZelenskyjUkrainas president 2019–
Ulf KristerssonSveriges statsminister 2022–
Daniel BrodinSvensk ishockeyspelare
Simona MohamssonSvensk politiker
Jimmie ÅkessonSvensk politiker
Benjamin NetanyahuIsraels premiärminister 1996–1999, 2009–2021 och 2022–