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…
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…
Ida Gabrielsson, deputy leader of the Left Party.Lyssna: Gabrielsson: Left Party will not back down — the door is closedThe Left Party will not back down from the demand to be part of any new red-green government, deputy…
Leader of the Center Party Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist and Parliament Speaker Andreas Norlén. Lyssna: Speaker’s PM vote decision draws criticismSeveral party leaders are critical of the Speaker's decision to put the Centre…
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…
Finance minister Elisabeth Svantesson at Tuesday's budget briefing.Lyssna: Svantesson: A budget with no new policiesSweden's caretaker government will present an apolitical interim budget next month, free from new spendi…
Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist appeared before the media on Monday.Lyssna: Centre Party leader: No majority for Centrist governmentCentre party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist said on Monday that she is ending her attempts t…
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…
Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist will meet with all the other party leaders this week. Lyssna: Centre party leader on chances of forming a government 'in the middle'Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqv…
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…
Members of the public gathered outside the sports hall over the weekend, to play tribute to the victim.Lyssna: Two teenagers held after woman killed in Älvsjö shootingA 25-year-old woman was shot dead at a sports centre…
Speaker Andreas Norlén with Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats. Lyssna: Swedish Speaker to outline next steps on Monday after PM vote setbackThe speaker of parliament, Andreas Norlén, says he will take the weeke…
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…
Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats will now be put up for a prime ministerial vote in parliament on Thursday.Lyssna: Andersson still can't form government: 'I expect it to take some time'Leader of the Social Dem…
Magdalena Andersson, leader of the Social Democrats, notes that "the positions that the Center Party and the Left Party have taken they are incompatible, at the moment".Lyssna: Andersson prepared to lose the first vote o…
The register would help prevent the same donors being used for too many families.Lyssna: Support for Sweden's proposed national sperm and egg donor registerThe National Board of Health and Welfare's proposed national reg…
Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats says she expects to lose the Prime Minister vote today. Lyssna: Magdalena Andersson expected to lose PM vote in parliament todayIn the first step to Sweden getting a new govern…
Social Democrat MPs including leader Magdalena Andersson in Thursday's vote. Lyssna: Vote finished — Parliament votes no to Andersson as Prime MinisterA sizeable majority in parliament has voted against Magdalena Anders…
Sweden's parliament on Wednesday voted to reject Magdalena Andersson as prime minister by a massive majority. Does this mean she's out of the game for good? (Spoiler: no).
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…
Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson has not managed to unite the parties on the centre-left to form a government, she told reporters following her meeting with the speaker of parliament on Tuesday..
In a political climate that often feels hostile to immigrants, it can be easy for those of us stuck in Sweden's immigration system to sour on the country. This week, Mandy Pipher takes a step back to remember why she wan…
Troye Sivan följer upp sitt stora genombrott med ett album som är råare och mer dynamiskt än föregångaren. ”She’s the best” är publiktillvänd musik när den är som allra vackrast, tycker DN:s Gabriel Zetterström..
Popstjärnan och gayikonen Troye Sivan har samarbetat med namn som Charli XCX, Madonna, Nicole Kidman och Ian McKellen. Nu är han aktuell med sitt fjärde studioalbum ”She’s the best”. DN:s Vera von Otter dyker ned i austr…
The Local's Mandy Pipher explains how she ended up being interviewed in Swedish about geopolitics on live national radio – despite not being at all comfortable in the spoken language..
The leading candidate to be Sweden's new Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, has declared herself 'available' to form a new government after she held the first party leader meeting with the parliament's speaker after th…
The Centre Party is the kingmaker Sweden's next government, but it has boxed itself in with red lines in all directions. Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist should learn from Ebba Busch if she wants to find a way out, argues James…
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen raised the prospect on Wednesday of Canada becoming the 27-nation bloc's first "associate member', as she pitched closer cooperation on tech, defence and energy to Canadian leader Mark Carne…
The Local's Becky Waterton was one of the lucky ones to get her Swedish citizenship just before the law changed. Here she reflects on what that means to her, and shares the top stories of the week..
Laura Brownrigg is one of thousands of foreign-born voters ready to cast their ballot for the first time in Sweden's regional and local elections. She tells The Local about the issues that matter to her and what she want…
Vivien Leung from Australia is one of thousands of foreign-born voters ready to cast their ballot for the first time in Sweden's national election. She tells The Local about the issues that matter to her and what she wan…
Karolina Pudlo from Poland is one of thousands of foreign-born voters ready to cast their ballot in Sweden's regional elections. She explains why she left the Moderate party over transitional rules for citizenship..
Master's student Deepshikha Monga is one of thousands of foreign-born voters ready to cast their ballot for the first time in Sweden's local and regional elections. She tells The Local about the issues that matter to her…
The Local’s Mandy Pipher is heading to Canada with her family, but she still hasn’t received her renewed Swedish residency card, which she’ll need to return. She explains her ordeal before running through the week’s stor…
Nichola Stanlick has lived in Sweden almost continuously since she arrived, aged seven, 40 years ago. But she's now thinking of taking a third job to help her chances of staying after her application for post-Brexit resi…