I början av 00-talet hade The Plan hits som Mon Amour och Let´s Leave. Nu är det legendariska indiepopbandet från Göteborg med Theodor Jensen i spetsen tillbaka igen. På fredagskvällen bjöd de på en härligt kaotisk url…
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?
Statistics Sweden has released a report with data on which immigrant groups have become Swedish citizens after over a decade in the country – and how many have left again..
Richard Orange suggests that Sweden should stop splitting couples and families by forcing people to leave Sweden when applying for residency on new grounds, before running through the week's news..
Sweden's farmers may get to milk their cows in daylight, but most other people will have to leave work as it's already getting dark. The clocks are about to go back in Sweden, a clear sign that winter is around the corne…
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…
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…
Benjamin Ingrosso är aktuell med sitt nya album ”Baby, don't say that I'm sensitive” som släpps den 19 mars nästa år. I en intervju med TV4 berättar artisten att flera av låtarna på skivan hämtar inspiration från hans eg…
The bill Sweden's government has promoted as its solution to teen deportations has instead created a new group of young adults who risk being forced to leave Sweden, a lawyer has warned..
Newly elected Left Party MP Mohamed Abdukardir Ali is taking a leave of absence, following allegations of election fraud..
The Social Democrats want to launch a fast-track investigation into residency for people who have lived in the country for a long time in a bid to solve teen deportation and Brexit cases, the party's migration spokespers…
Sweden Democrat official takes parental leave following Russia allegations – and Sweden to test new mobile emergency alert system today. Here's the latest news..
Sweden has told British citizens who have lived here for decades to leave after Brexit. The Migration Agency says it has simply followed the rules. "Brexit can hardly have come as a surprise," its spokesperson tells The…
An MP from the Left Party has submitted a written question to Migration Minister Johan Forssell asking what he is doing to prevent the deportation of elderly, vulnerable British citizens as a result of the UK's decision…
Public transport operator Västtrafik is removing election advertisements from the Sweden Democrats on local buses in Skaraborg after bus drivers went on sick leave in protest..
A 74-year-old British man who has been living in Sweden for 25 years who needs round-the-clock care for dementia has been given 10 days to leave the country after he lost a post-Brexit migration court case..
More than 130 teenage children of foreign workers were ordered to leave Sweden without their parents last year, according to an analysis by The Local – showing that 'teen deportations' in this this category, largely igno…
”Leave him, or leave us out of it” – det är internetfeministernas nya motto när tjejer vädrar sina killproblem på nätet. Men är detta putslustiga begrepp nytänkande eller rakt av farligt?.
Ten years after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Britons living in Sweden have told The Local that the impact of Brexit on their lives was not just practical: the vote also caused a shift in their identity, mark…
After immigration authorities gave her American husband just one week to leave the country or risk being put on a Schengen blacklist, a Swedish scientist tells The Local how she feels betrayed by her own country and its…
Walter Parazaider, en av originalmedlemmarna i bandet Chicago har avlidit, 81 år gammal, skriver sajten TMZ.Walter Parazaider började spela klarinett som nioåring och spelade också bland annat saxofon och flöjt i bandet.…
Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell has said that he hopes a soon-to-be-announced "safety clause" to reduce teen deportations will help young adults who have already received a deportation order as well as those aw…
Government pushes ahead with five-year profit ban for schools, Russian shadow vessel denied permission to leave Trelleborg, and more news from Sweden on Friday..
Det är höstruggigt kvällen den 27 september 1994 när 803 passagerare går ombord på M/S Estonia. Besättningen på 186 man finns redan ombord när Estonia lämnar kajen i Tallinn klockan 18.15, en kvart försenad.
Paola Claudio and her family did everything they could to plan ahead with the Migration Agency so that Paola's studies wouldn't be interrupted. But despite their best efforts, she got a last-minute order to leave the cou…
Anna Metreveli, a Russian PhD student in sociolinguistics, had her application to switch to a new residence permit rejected on the grounds that she did not leave Sweden to reapply, which has left her education and her so…
The Christian Democrats have said they will make scrapping Sweden's three months of use-it-or-lose-it paternity leave a condition of backing a new government after the election..
In a former office building estate in an industrial estate in southern Sweden, a world exists that isn't quite a prison — yet few are free to leave. The Local's Richard Orange visits the Migration Agency's detention cent…
The Local’s Editor Emma Löfgren reflects on her first week back after maternity leave before running through the other stories The Local has covered this week..
Sweden's government is considering allowing so-called 'track changers' the possibility to apply for a new work permit from within Sweden, instead of having to leave the country and reapply..
The proposed law that Sweden's migration minister claims will end teen deportations is likely instead to lead to a sharp rise in the number of children of work permit holders ordered to leave the country, one of Sweden's…
Software developer Besnik Barani works at one of Sweden's biggest engineering companies, while his daughter is a paid intern at Chalmers Institute of Technology. If the appeal in her teen deportation case fails, both mig…
Over 270 foreigners have applied to be paid to leave Sweden since the government's controversial 350,000 kronor 'return grant' came into force on New Year's Day, according to the first statistics on the take-up from the…
An overwhelming majority of the readers who answered The Local's survey are either considering leaving Sweden or have already decided to as a result of the country's new stricter citizenship laws, with the retroactive ap…
Sweden's government has announced that it will push ahead with plans to increase the residency requirement for citizenship from five years to eight, with the new rules applying retroactively. We want to hear whether they…
Thousands of people have reportedly been killed in Iran during protests against the regime, and the Swedish foreign ministry has told Swedes in the country to leave. Despite this, the Migration Agency has not paused depo…
Migration minister Johan Forssell has dismissed calls to reconsider abolishing the track changes law, saying that rejected applicants can just leave Sweden for 19 days and reapply. In reality the situation is far from th…
The decision to bring in stricter citizenship rules is by far the chief factor pushing readers who answered our survey to leave Sweden, followed by problems integrating and socialising, slow permit processing times, and…
Opposition in Sweden against the government's tighter migration laws is starting to build steam, as ordinary Swedes witness their neighbours, children's schoolmates, and local health workers being ordered to leave the co…
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