Weight-loss medications may lower food sales or change groceries demand.Lyssna: Weight-loss drugs may lower food salesWith more people use anti-obesity medication, analysts predict sales in grocery stores might be affect…
Märsta detention centre, north of Stockholm.Lyssna: Increasingly long stays at Migration Agency's largest detention centreDetention times for rejected asylum seekers and other individuals facing deportation who are being…
Sales of plastic bags have soared after the tax was removed two years ago.Lyssna: Plastic bag sales jump 45 percent after tax scrappedSales of plastic bags have increased since the tax on plastic bags was scrapped two ye…
The Moderates are gaining momentum in a new poll.Lyssna: Moderates close in on Social Democrats as Sweden’s largest party in new pollThe Social Democrats' position as Sweden's biggest party would be threatened if electio…
The number of exclusion orders in Sweden have increased.Lyssna: Drastic increase of preventive exclusion orders compared to last yearFollowing a new law in 2024 police are allowed to restrict the movements of people with…
My Levin Klintfors (on the right) thinks young people drink less because they spend more time on their screens than being social and partying. Lyssna: Report: Fewer Swedes drink alcohol: 'Spend more time on screens than…
European Union countries issued a total of 3.9 million new residence permits to non-EU citizens in 2025, a 10 percent increase compared to 2024, and the “highest level” since records began, according to new data. But whi…
The centre-left opposition looks set to extend its lead in the parliamentary seat distribution compared to the incumbent Tidö parties, according to the latest figures from the Swedish Election Authority..
Residents in southern Sweden can expect to pay around 700 kronor more per month for their electricity this winter compared to last year. Further north, cost increases will be more modest, provided forecasts hold true..
Nearly one million people cast their ballots in the week after early voting opened in Sweden on August 26th – a 40 percent increase compared to the same period in the 2022 election, according to the Swedish Election Auth…
One of the most senior figures in the far-right Sweden Democrats has compared the political editor of Sweden's leading left-wing newspaper to Vidkun Quisling, who headed Norway's puppet government during its occupation b…
Detailed monthly statistics from the Swedish Migration Agency obtained by The Local show a big rise in the percentage of citizenship cases rejected in June 2026 compared to the same time the previous year..
Ten thousand fewer students have been accepted to Swedish higher education institutions this year compared to 2025, in the first round of acceptances – which were sent out on Friday..
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 GDP saw an unexpected drop in January, falling 1.1 percent compared to the previous month, according to preliminary figures from Statistics Sweden..
Following a vote by Parliament, the EU will have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% in 2040 compared with 1990 levels, to achieve a climate neutral EU by 2050.Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food S…
Co-legislators agree on a 90% reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, compared with 1990 levels, to achieve a climate neutral EU by 2050.Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Source :…
The number of people taking flights from Sweden's ten state-owned airports went up by 7 percent in November compared to the same month last year, according to a press statement from Swedavia..
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Nearly 20,000 people more people were unemployed in Sweden in three months from March to the end of June, compared to the same period in 2024, taking the unemployment rate to to 6.9 percent, with Västerbotten, home to t…
The number of people applying for asylum in Sweden in the first six months of this year has dropped 30 percent compared to the same period last year, according to new statistics from the Migration Agency..