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Swedish committee backs wider government powers in crises

The Swedish Parliament chamber with curved blue seating and lecterns, photographed on 14 August 2019.
Sweden’s Parliament chamber. Illustrative photograph. Suyash Dwivedi / CC BY-SA 4.0

Sweden’s constitutional committee has backed wider government powers to make rules during serious peacetime crises, despite Green Party objections over restrictions on rights without prior parliamentary approval.

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