Lesley Jensen, originally from Chile, started her own business three years ago.Lyssna: More women with a foreign background starting their own businesses in SwedenIn the past 10 years there's been a 50% rise in the numbe…
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…
För 17 år sedan utkom boken ”40 more years: How the democrats will rule the next generation”. Författaren James Carville, tidigare Bill Clintons stjärnstrateg, menade att Obamas seger var startskottet för ett fyra decenn…
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…
American Democrats gathered over pancakes and coffee in Malmö on the morning of November 4th to celebrate their party's victories in the US midterm elections. But alongside the jubilation, some described the frustration…
Spin the wheel and you can have the first component of your very first poem. Librarian Lova Berggren is showing the kids during the autumn 'reading' break.Lyssna: Librarian's top tips for how to get kids into readingTen…
Ebba Busch, party leader of The Christian Democrats. Lyssna: Christian Democrats propose deportations to third countriesThe Christian Democrats want Sweden to explore the possibility of deporting people to countries othe…
Sweden's Social Democrats have been the largest party in the country for a hundred years. But according to a new opinion poll, the Moderates are closing in..
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…
Svante Axelsson from fossil-free Sweden.Lyssna: Green transition of heavy industry loses momentum – several projectsSeveral major Swedish initiatives within the green industrial sector have been put on ice or cancelled.…
Albin Kainelainen, director general of the National Institute of Economic Research.Lyssna: More efficient companies could mean better wage increases, institute saysIt looks like there will be favourable conditions for wa…
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…
Sweden's wild boar population has soared in recent years.Lyssna: Report: Not enough wild boar meat being served up in Sweden's schools and elderMunicipalities in Sweden are serving up too little wild boar meat, even thou…
Sweden's regional county administrative boards have announced a record-breaking wolf hunt this winter. A total of 72 animals may be shot starting on January 2nd..
Sweden's political deadlock continues as suddenly no one wants to be PM – and record number of wolves to be culled as Sweden approves largest licensed hunt in years. Here's the latest news..
Sweden's Moderate Party has recorded its highest level of voter support in five years in a new opinion poll..
When Gavin Maycroft arrived in Stockholm aged 28 to join his Swedish girlfriend, he’d mainly been a waiter. But he soon blagged his way into DJing and music events, and 20 years later is one of the main bookers for the S…
The Swedish Council of Higher Education (UHR) has proposed delaying the introduction of language tests for citizenship by two more years, with the reading and listening test taking place in autumn of 2029 and the speakin…
After recent regional election breakthroughs by the Alternative for Germany (AfD), here is an overview of radical, nationalist and far- and hard-right parties' positions across Europe in recent years..
It’s not clear who won this election, but it’s clear who lost: the Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats. The spell that the Sweden Democrats have cast over Swedish politics over the past sixteen years has been broke…
"Good job!" Outside Stockholm's Farsta subway station where a 2023 shooting killed two innocent bystanders, locals thank Max Akerwall and his police team for turning the tide on gang violence..
On Sunday, Sweden will make a choice with profound implications for foreigners living here — and the latest polls show it could go either way. But don’t imagine the problems will evaporate with a change of government, sa…
Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell is considering a second chance for deported Brexit Brits – three years after The Local brought the issue to the government's attention..
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Swedish pupils have never before been as poor in mathematics, reading comprehension and science in any Pisa survey in 25 years, in shock results that present a stark wake-up call..
The Social Democrats are planning to launch a government inquiry which will carry out a major review of the country's migration legislation, arguing that years of piecemeal reforms have made the rules unnecessarily compl…
It took until April 2025 – more than five years after the UK left the EU – for Gavin Watkins to realise he should have applied for post-Brexit residency. He has since lost his job, unemployment insurance and risks deport…
After years on the streets it took a while for Viking Weiner to get used to the feeling of being at home in his new apartment in Sweden's second city Gothenburg..
This election, for the Moderates at least, marks the point voters give their verdict on the bold experiment the party has run over the past four years: ruling with the backing of the far-right Sweden Democrats. Will it g…
Three and a half months after John and Caroline Sellers got married, John was deported from Sweden, a country he had lived in for 24 of his 34 years. They are one many couples separated by Sweden's strict application of…
On August 21st, a pupil at a school in central Sweden killed a 17-year-old girl and injured three boys in the second school attack in Sweden in two years. Here's what we know so far..
Shima and Bijan left the UK for Sweden seven years ago with their young daughter. If they knew then what they know now about Sweden's approach to family immigration, they say they would never have come..
Scandinavian airline SAS has launched a new route between Mumbai and Copenhagen with five flights a week, making it the airline's first direct route between the two countries in 17 years..
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…
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..
A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting a deportation order after the Migration Agency said her post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late, The Guardian has reported.
Sweden’s government could face a defeat in the final day of parliamentary voting of the term, as an opposition MP said the four parties planned to unite to reject a proposal requiring foreigners to wait more than two yea…
The infamous Swedish criminal Jonas Falk has been jailed for over nine years for smuggling over two tonnes of cocaine from South America, in the latest in a long series of convictions..
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…
Several people over 70 years of age have died in drowning accidents recently. Elderly people are over-represented in the statistics – and men in particular..
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