Eighteen months after Stockholm University was instructed to develop language tests for citizenship, it has finally hired a project manager. Lars Bokander told The Local that when it comes to developing test items, he is…
Last month, The Local's Mandy Pipher wrote a grumpy op-ed about Swedish attempts at Halloween – but then actually had a good time going trick-or-treating in her Umeå neighbourhood. Read about her experience – and the wee…
Om man byter ut ordet world till local i ovanstående citat så kan jag delvis skriva under på det. Helsingborg 2016 Det började med att jag satt på vårt lokala bibliotek och läste Dagens Nyheter, då jag hörde en r…
No one outside of Sweden has heard of it, and people in Sweden's larger cities farther south tend to speak about it with a drop of disdain, but The Local's Mandy Pipher says she wouldn't want to live anywhere in Sweden b…
The now former chief executive of Jokkmokk council, Lars Eriksson.Lyssna: Porn film producing council chief executive firedLars Eriksson, the chief executive of Jokkmokk municipal council in the far north of Sweden has b…
The Green Party enjoyed big success in Gnesta while the Sweden Democrats are in the ruling coalition running Södertälje.Lyssna: Post election: Sweden Democrats and Greens having more of an influence in localIn the Septem…
The carved wooden 'Dala' horses.Lyssna: Sweden's Dala Horse receives EU protection statusThe Dala Horse is set to become Sweden’s first product included in the EU’s system for the geographical protection of craft and ind…
Texas, Kansas och South Carolina. Tre delstater som republikanerna inte skulle kunna förlora. I natt förlorade de alla tre.
Sweden doesn't have a government yet, more than 50 days after the election. When will it get one? Here's your chance to ask The Local's editor about that and anything else politics-related on your mind..
The leaders of the Red-Green parties, Jonas Attenius (S), Marie Brynolfsson (Left) and Klara Holmin (Greens) who are in the majority on Gothenburg City Council.Lyssna: Top politicians in Gothenburg cut their own salaries…
Reaktionerna på att Bonnier News Local föreslår att lägga ner NVP har varit många och starka. ”Lägg inte ned landets bästa lokaltidning!”, skriver en läsare.
Bonnier News Local har aviserat en större omorganisation, som innebär att Nacka Värmdö Posten och två Nu-titlar läggs ned när bevakningen samlas under Mitt i-varumärket. Förändringarna innebär att åtta journalisttjänster…
Bonnier News Local samlar all sin lokalbevakning i Stockholm inom Mitt i-varumärket. Samtidigt avvecklas Nacka Värmdö Posten och Nu-titlarna som en del av konsolideringen. – Att planera för stängningen av två redaktioner…
Martin Ådahl, economics spokesperson for the Centre Party, has ruled out any deal which will see his party support a right-wing government dependent on the far-right Sweden Democrats, telling The Local simply that "it wi…
The Local's Emma Löfgren writes about her annual TV obsession, and lists Sweden's top stories of the week..
Some Sweden Democrats think the only true Swedes are those who can trace back their ancestry to the dawn of time. It's an extreme idea that collapses under its own contradictions, argues The Local's James Savage..
When The Local's Mandy Pipher tells people she moved to Sweden from Canada, the response is usually: what’s the difference? Both countries have snowy winters and are known for being polite and reserved. But beyond these…
Gilbert Tribo, who's the former group leader for the Liberals in the Skåne region.Lyssna: Conflict within the Liberals continues — 'it's a purge of dissenters'Several Liberal politicians who were part of a group that rep…
When something in a culture becomes so iconic that it's ubiquitous, it can be easy to assume that its status is overblown. But even after all this time and exposure, Pippi Longstocking still lives up to the hype, writes…
Every year, tens of thousands of people sit högskoleprovet, the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test, the results of which can be used on university applications. Take The Local's English-ified version of the Swedish vocabul…
The Local's reader survey on what life is like for foreign-born researchers in Sweden revealed as many big pluses as major minuses..
Restaurangen och bageriet på Pensionatet kommer inte att fortsätta i sin nuvarande form. – Jag måste hitta tillbaka till syftet jag hade. Jag vill jobba med att utveckla Piteå, med local hero, med event och pop up och fö…
Immigration was at the heart of the political debate in the past four years, but the voices of immigrants themselves were comparatively rarely centred in the media coverage, an analysis by The Fix Advisory & Research in…
Trots en uppenbar differens i siffrorna ser Bonnier News Locals Pia Rehnquist och Stampens Christofer Ahlqvist ett fortsatt värde av Orvestomätningarna. ”Relevant om man målar med lite bredare penseldrag”, säger Pia Rehn…
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…
Social Democrat Marie Svensson and Moderate Party's Filip Rundström in Eskilstuna where their two parties have governed together since 2014.Lyssna: Moderates and Social Democrats forming coalitions in more than 50 local…
Bonnier News Local utser Fredrik Klevenhaus till ny chefredaktör och ansvarig utgivare för Bärgslagsbladet/Arboga Tidning. – Jag ser fram emot att visa både trogna och nya prenumeranter att Bbl/AT är en oumbärlig nyhets…
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..
När jag fick frågan att tipsa om de bästa kebabställena i Göteborg så var det med blandade känslor som jag såklart tackade ja. Lyckan över att få en ursäkt till att trycka mer kebab än vanligt en vecka in the name of sci…
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..
Senior Green Party MP Annika Hirvonen has told The Local she wants to allow everyone who applied for Swedish citizenship before June 6th – including those whose application has already been rejected – to be assessed unde…
The Green Party's top MP Annika Hirvonen has started the new parliamentary term with a flurry of initiatives on teen deportations. She tells The Local how she hopes a new majority will allow action on citizenship and Bre…
This week: Tortuous efforts to form a government, plans to stop teen deportations, how new rules on family reunification could make life harder for university researchers, and what do The Local’s readers miss most when l…
The Local's readers come from around the world, but what they missed from their homelands now that they've built a life in Sweden was remarkably similar – which probably says more about Sweden than it does about other co…
The previous Swedish government's law raising income requirements for foreigners with families in Sweden came into force on October 1st, 2026. The Local spoke to SULF, which represents higher education workers, about ho…
The previous Swedish government's law tightening rules for family reunification comes into force on October 1st, 2026. The Local spoke to Ann-Kari Olsson, Section Head at the Swedish Migration Agency, to find out who is…
The Local's Emma Löfgren tries to explain what we actually know and don't know about the electoral fraud allegations in Dalarna, and shares the other top stories of the week..
Coercion and bribery have no place in elections. But before accusing immigrants of "clan voting", Swedes should look at themselves, argues The Local's James Savage..
The results of our (highly unscientific) reader survey on how you voted in Sweden's election are in..
In an interview with The Local, Fredrik Löndahl, chief judge at the Malmö migration court, explains why his court gave special attention to a single citizenship rejection appeal, and why he believes the ruling will be te…
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