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Sweden’s national theatre broke discrimination ban over wheelchair tickets

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Editorial illustration of a wheelchair theatre ticket stopped at a silent message barrier.

Essential News

A blue-and-white metro train stands beside the platform at Ropsten station in Stockholm.

Politics

Social Democrats pledge free youth travel in jobs-and-climate plan

An empty underground dry dock at Muskö naval base.

News

Swedish military asks government to seize property beside naval base

Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson speaks at Almedalen Week in June 2024.

Politics

Moderates want to scrap preschool and after-school fees

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A television camera operator films a football match from behind a barrier.

News

Swedish privacy regulator issues guidance on streaming children’s sport

A person uses Försäkringskassan's online service on a laptop.

News

Workers in insecure jobs use sickness benefit less, Swedish report finds

People queue inside a Swedish advance-voting location in 2022.

News

Advance voting opens Wednesday with one fixed public site in 39 municipalities

Simona Mohamsson speaks into a reporter’s microphone during an interview at Almedalen.

Politics

Mohamsson on Åkesson’s snub: “Loser mentality”

Google and Gemini branding on a physical display at the re:publica conference.

News

Google AI tells ‘alone with Arabs’ prompt: call 112

A dense climate-march procession fills a long central Stockholm street beside Vasaparken.

News

More than 50,000 march for climate weeks before Sweden votes

A masked cardiac surgical team works around a covered patient area with monitors and clinical equipment.

News

Two patients may need heart transplants after Karolinska drug mix-up

Apartment buildings under construction beside a waterfront in Malmö.

News

Swedish apartment construction rises 16% as house building falls

Simona Mohamsson and Ulf Kristersson stand at lecterns during a government press conference.

News

Sweden launches commission to prevent school attacks

Green Party co-leader Amanda Lind applauds at the party's Almedalen event in June 2019.

Politics

Green Party rules out government with Christian Democrats

Vision president Veronica Magnusson standing with folded arms on a city street.

News

Swedish public employers spent 260m SEK buying out managers

A railway bridge crosses Bodån in central Boden, with a footpath and green trees beside the water.

News

Boden warns people away from floodwater as levels peak

Container cranes and mixed cargo at Gothenburg harbour

News

Shipping choke points drive up costs for Sweden

Jimmie Åkesson speaks at Almedalen Week in Visby in July 2018.

News

Åkesson tells SD voters: Don’t save the Liberals

Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson speaks on a party stage at Almedalen in June 2025.

Politics

Liberals want wider dismissal powers in schools and care

A Swedish Police mobile surveillance mast stands on a marked equipment trailer.

News

Police put surveillance above privacy at Sweden's election stalls

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar poses against a plain grey background in May 2018.

News

Dadgostar cancels summer speech after fatal Fagersta school attack

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson poses alone for a photograph in Gothenburg in April 2026.

News

Andersson cancels campaign stop after attack

Fire-damaged trees stand in Tyresta Nature Reserve near Stockholm in a September 2013 file photograph.

News

SMHI says 15 counties face high-to-extreme forest-fire risk Sunday

People visit the Sweden Democrats' public political tent during Almedalen Week in 2023.

Politics

SD wants national staffing floor for elder care

A Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A320 parked at Oslo Airport while ground crews service the aircraft.

News

Norwegian air-traffic strike disrupts SAS flights to Sweden

A grayscale transmission electron micrograph shows a single measles virus particle.

News

Sweden's measles outbreak grows to 24 cases across nine regions

Ulf Kristersson speaking at the EPP Congress in Zagreb in 2019

News

Kristersson cancels summer speech after fatal Fagersta school attack

Road bridge BD 287 crosses the Vittjarvstrasket outlet in Vittjarv, Boden, in a July 2016 file photograph.

News

Norrbotten flood warning extended through Sunday as roads close

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar smiles outside the Riksdag in Stockholm.

Politics

Left Party wants to halve Sweden's municipal tax gap

News

Several people injured in sword attack at school in Fagersta

A marked pedestrian crossing over railway tracks at Apelviken in Varberg, with barriers, warning lights and a sign telling people to watch for trains.

News

Track trespass caused 4,055 hours of Swedish train delays

A doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to a young patient's chest during a medical examination.

Politics

Sweden links child health checks from birth to age 20

Simona Mohamsson speaks through a headset microphone at Almedalen Week in June 2025.

News

Mohamsson wore a Star of David but refuses hijab solidarity for Muslims

Yellow wooden villas on Norra Hamngatan in Lysekil, Sweden.

News

Swedish house prices rose 2% in the second quarter

Election workers sort ballot papers in an Election Authority photograph for Sweden's 2026 elections.

News

Sweden prepares election system for cyberattacks and sabotage

Jimmie Åkesson, left, and Simona Mohamsson, right, in a DailySweden split-panel composite of photographs made separately in 2024 and 2025, separated by a jagged red line across a dark gap

News

Åkesson refuses to rescue Liberals: ‘Not our responsibility’

Passengers stand outside the entrance to Terminal 2 at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

News

Three airlines move as Arlanda closes Terminal 3 security

An archival portrait of Swedish Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari.

DailySweden view

Sweden’s ministers keep full pay while sick as the government defends the sick-day penalty

Yellow-flowered strandkotula plants growing across sandy ground.

News

Public landowners must eradicate invasive strandkotula

A 1958 clinical file photograph shows a diffuse measles rash across an anonymous patient's abdomen; it does not show a Swedish case

News

Measles outbreak reaches 21 cases as vaccine demand surges

Magdalena Andersson during a visit to Helsinki in March 2022.

Politics

Andersson rejects review of existing permanent residence permits

A road bridge over Kvarnbäcken in Vittjärv, Boden municipality, in July 2016; the file photograph does not show current water levels or flooding

News

Orange flood warning puts Norrbotten roads and buildings at risk

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson speaks at Långholmen in Stockholm in 2024.

Politics

Åkesson says he wants to be prime minister in 2030

The Cementa cement plant in Slite rises behind trees, with industrial stacks and a visible plume under a cloudy sky.

News

Two Swedish cement plants underreported 348,000 tonnes of CO2

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson

News

Kristersson rejects Jomshof's call to abandon Islam

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

News

Police warn 2.4 million passports expire next year

A fuel nozzle at a petrol station in Helsingborg, Sweden.

Politics

Tidö parties split over extending fuel-tax cut

An empty Trafikverket Förarprov theory-test room with numbered computer stations and headphones.

News

Sweden extends B-licence theory-test validity to one year

Hyllie water tower rises above summer trees in Malmö in an August 2019 file photograph.

News

Major leak leaves six Skåne areas low on drinking water

Tartu Prison seen across open ground in a May 2014 file photograph.

News

Estonia rejects 20 of Sweden's 37 proposed prisoners

Amanda Lind speaks at Almedalen Week in Visby in June 2026.

Politics

Green Party wants 35-hour week as step to four days

The Vassara river crosses green summer wetlands near Gällivare in a June 2016 file photograph.

News

SMHI expands Norrbotten high-flow warning through Thursday

Three voters choose ballot papers behind privacy screens at a Swedish polling station in September 2022.

Politics

Poll gives opposition 10-point lead as Centre Party hits 8%

A hand holds a phone displaying a digital voting card beside a Swedish polling-place sign.

News

Sweden sends 6.5 million voting cards digitally

A Migrationsverket sign outside an agency building.

Belonging

Swedish citizenship grants fell 94% in July as 103,598 cases remained open

Two summer workers use laptops and review a document at Stena Fastigheter's Gothenburg office in June 2026.

News

Temporary employment in Sweden rises to 707,000

A 1958 clinical file photograph shows a diffuse measles rash across an anonymous patient's abdomen; it does not show a Swedish case.

News

Sweden's measles outbreak doubles to 10 cases

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

News

Sweden granted just 98 citizenships in July

Fire-damaged trees stand above green regrowth in Västmanland in a file photograph from the 2014 wildfire.

News

SMHI warns 15 counties face very high forest-fire risk

A road bridge crosses Kvarnbäcken in Vittjärv, Boden, in a July 2016 file photograph.

News

SMHI warns high flows could flood eastern Norrbotten roads

A hand reaches into a blue classroom storage cage filled with students' mobile phones.

News

Sweden starts all-day phone collection in compulsory schools

An archival black-and-white photograph shows a clinician administering a measles vaccination during a campaign at the University of Mississippi.

News

Sweden reports five measles cases, warns Urkult visitors

Heavy summer rain falls over houses, trees and a residential street in Brastad, Sweden.

News

SMHI warns seven counties of 30–60 mm downpours tonight

People approach the main entrance of Stockholmsmässan in a February 2015 file photograph.

News

Sweden holds first citizenship test for invited applicants

Alingsås station's red building beside railway tracks and overhead power lines on a clear summer day.

News

Göteborg-Alingsås trains reopen Monday despite cable thefts

Åreskutan rises above green summer slopes and a road in Åre village.

News

Åre residents told to boil tap water after facility fault

A Polish border guard checks passengers' travel documents aboard a coach at the Berastavitsa-Bobrowniki crossing in August 2018.

Belonging

Sweden’s revised guidance says Belarusians should not return for passports

An empty dental treatment room with a chair, overhead light and clinical instruments.

News

Sweden raises urgent dental costs for asylum seekers with means

The yes, no and abstain voting buttons on a member's desk in the Swedish Parliament chamber.

News

Sweden passes law forcing families to wait two years to reunite

A Tesla Model S and Model X chassis displayed inside a Tesla showroom in Sydney.

News

Tesla defeats IF Metall after nearly three-year strike

Five older Trocadero bottles in different sizes beside a glass of the soft drink.

News

Spendrups recalls Trocadero Zero 24-packs after strong beer mix-up

An aerial view of cleared land and access roads at Torsboda Industrial Park, surrounded by forest and water.

News

Legal reviews find major risks in Google's Torsboda deal

Tony Haddou speaking into a microphone at a migration and asylum demonstration in Stockholm in June 2022.

News

Tony Haddou: Family rules risk “abortion or deportation”

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

News

Sweden lets Laver copper mine advance despite environmental appeals

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

News

Pending citizenship applications can fail Sweden's new language rule

Viktor Wärnick, chair of the Swedish Parliament's Social Insurance Committee, in an official parliamentary portrait.

News

Viktor Wärnick chairs committee backing tighter family-reunification rules

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson speaking at Långholmen in Stockholm in 2024.

Politics

Jimmie Åkesson: ‘I would like to spend exactly zero kronor on integration’

Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats, speaks with a headset microphone at Almedalen Week in June 2026.

Politics

Jimmie Åkesson still wants existing permanent residence permits revoked

Daniel Helldén, now co-leader of Sweden’s Green Party, speaks into a handheld microphone at an outdoor event in 2018.

Politics

Daniel Helldén says Sweden’s billionaires should pay more tax

The brick Nyköping railway station building beside its forecourt under a partly cloudy sky.

News

Stockholm-Norrköping trains resume after one-hour stop

A partial solar eclipse visible through clouds over Tuntorp in western Sweden.

Life Here

Sweden gets a partial eclipse Wednesday, but viewers need eye protection

Syrian refugees with luggage gathered outside Stockholm Central station after arriving in Sweden in September 2015.

DailySweden view

Sweden cannot demand integration while making belonging conditional

Floodwater covering a road beneath a railway in Floby, Sweden.

News

SMHI warns 70-100 mm rain could flood eastern Norrbotten

A hiker scrambles across loose rocks on the exposed Västra leden route at Kebnekaise.

Life Here

Kebnekaise hikers face more rockfalls as permafrost thaws

News

Örnsköldsvik water leak leaves six areas without water

News

Stockholm Central trains resume but delays remain

A row of green Ryde electric scooters is parked along a city pavement.

Life Here

Ryde data breach hits every customer account

Passengers carrying bags board a plane at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

Sweden Explained

48% of Swedes less likely to summer in Europe because of heat

A person holding a smartphone with its screen visible.

Tech

Europe’s new deepfake label has a private-use blind spot

A newborn baby held skin to skin on a parent's chest with the baby's face visible

Life Here

Three Babybay bedside cribs recalled over strangulation and fall risks

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

Citizenship

Try UHR’s five official Swedish citizenship test questions

The Ceuta-Morocco border fence winds through green hills on the Ceuta side.

DailySweden view

Ceuta exposed the right's politics of cruelty

A Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A320 parked at Oslo Airport while ground crews service the aircraft.

News

468 SAS cabin crew set to strike from Saturday

The eastern facade of the Swedish Parliament building in Stockholm behind trimmed hedges.

Power & Consequence

Sweden's broader gang-crime rule can double sentences

The Arbetsförmedlingen office in Malmö, photographed from the pavement in daylight.

News

Swedish agencies report 80 suspected undocumented residents to police

Johan Forssell outdoors at the opening of Sweden's parliamentary year in September 2018.

Politics

Swedish right seizes on Ceuta migrant crossing to advance anti-immigration rhetoric

Carl Bildt speaks during a World Economic Forum session in Davos in January 2010.

Politics

Bildt points to Morocco after Ceuta mass migrant crossing

Apartment buildings rise above trees beside the water in Nacka, Greater Stockholm.

Life Here

Greater Stockholm apartment prices fell 7.1% in July

The red-brick Österportsgymnasiet building in Ystad.

News

Swedish equality watchdog investigates boys-only school scholarship

A green and white Swedish learner-driver sign attached to a car.

Life Here

Sweden ends mandatory course for private learner driving

An empty KTH lecture hall in Stockholm with rows of blue seats facing teaching equipment.

Living in Sweden

Study Permit Extensions Need Proof Of Progress

Ulf Kristersson at a European Council summit in Brussels in December 2022.

Politics

Sweden demands EU crisis talks but rejects migrant relocation

A smiling toddler is held by an adult while receiving a vaccination.

News

Sweden adopts free chickenpox vaccination for children

A green and white Swedish learner-driver sign attached to a car.

Power & Consequence

Sweden drops mandatory course for learner drivers and supervisors

A close view of the green Arbetsförmedlingen symbol and bilingual agency name on a glass-fronted building.

Politics

Swedish government wants to make firing workers easier

Rows of illuminated server racks inside a data centre.

Power & Consequence

Sweden co-funds Finnish AI compute for public sector

A grocery store aisle in Sweden with packaged food displayed on shelves.

Sweden Explained

Swedish retailers turn upbeat. Households remain cautious.

Kista Science Tower office building in Stockholm’s technology district

Making It

Tech pay growth beats Sweden's private-sector average

An empty classroom at Södra Latin upper-secondary school in Stockholm.

Belonging

Negative student attitudes to LGBTQ people rose fivefold

A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Politics

Sweden adopts child-violence strategy to speed police cases

The Discrimination Ombudsman's sign on an office wall in Solna.

Work & labour

DO investigates Partille employer after African applicant was denied an interview

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson during a visit to Helsinki in March 2022.

Politics

Suspected neo-Nazi attack targets Social Democrats' Sölvesborg office

A picker gathers bilberries into containers on the floor of a Finnish forest.

Work & labour

Union steps up checks on 950 foreign berry pickers

Two washing machines and a tumble dryer stand in a condominium laundry room in Gothenburg.

Life Here

Sweden's cheapest summer electricity now comes in the daytime

Rental e-scooters stand around a marked parking rack on Vasagatan in Stockholm.

Life Here

Sweden reviews e-scooter rules after 6,624 injuries in 2025

Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman meet at 10 Downing Street in May 2023.

Power & Consequence

EU delays high-risk AI rules and bans nudification apps

Two glass jars containing dark honey stand on a table.

Life Here

Eleven of 17 honey products failed Swedish checks

A teenager sits indoors while using a mobile phone.

Politics

Centre wants parents to override social media age limit from 13

A mother helps her child with handwritten homework at a table.

Politics

Liberals promise 90% VAB in five-part family package

An Arbetsförmedlingen sign above a shaded pedestrian walkway with people and parked bicycles in the background.

Belonging

Jobs, taxes, benefits: six agencies now report suspected undocumented residents to police

European Health Insurance Cards tucked into a brown leather wallet.

Nordics & Europe

Important to know: EU health cards do not replace travel insurance

A Swedish Air Force Gripen takes off from a short runway on a public road in 2010.

Tech

Sweden built Gripen to keep flying after its airbases are hit

A smartphone displaying ChatGPT rests on a computer keyboard.

Tech

AI chatbots in Sweden must identify themselves from August 2

Pans and a pot sit above a campfire in a Swedish forest.

Power & Consequence

Before you barbecue: 31 Swedish municipalities have fire bans

A woman pushes a smiling young man in a wheelchair outside a building.

Politics

Liberals and SD promise 7% rise in personal-assistance payments

Swedish police officers stand between barriers and a crowd at a Stockholm rally in August 2014.

DailySweden view

Born in Sweden. Why does the crime debate still call them immigrants?

An empty classroom with rows of desks and chairs in Tollarp, Sweden.

Education

Sweden sets 2029 start for centrally marked final exams

The red Migrationsverket name and bridge symbol displayed on a glass office wall.

Belonging

Migration Agency lifts Ukraine protection forecast to 10,000

Syrian refugees with luggage gathered outside Stockholm Central station after arriving in Sweden in September 2015.

Politics

Five parties refuse to lift Sweden’s 900-person refugee quota

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

Politics

Sweden’s citizenship withdrawal plan will pass to next government

The Swedish Migration Agency building in Solna, photographed from outside.

Migration

Bank blocks access to SEK 350,000 return grant after recipient surrenders home

Refugees travel in an inflatable boat across the Mediterranean toward Lesbos in January 2016 as a rescue crew watches from another vessel.

Migration

Europe’s migrant arrivals are falling because its borders now extend into North Africa

A street in Överkalix lined with shops and colourful wooden buildings.

Migration

While national politicians promise lower immigration, shrinking Swedish municipalities are actively competing for foreign residents

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

Citizenship

Sweden’s new citizenship rules require longer residence and your own income

A tractor towing a crop sprayer applies liquid across a field in West Sussex, England

Power & Consequence

Sweden wants ‘forever chemicals’ out of clothes, but farms can keep spraying them

Ebba Busch speaks at Soltorget in central Stockholm on 8 September 2018.

Politics

Ebba Busch: Pragmatist?

A caregiver hands a cup of tea to an older woman seated in a care home.

Making It

Forged assistant-nurse certificate triggers nationwide checks

Magdalena Andersson poses for a photograph with two members of the public outside the Riksdag in Stockholm in September 2025.

Politics

Magdalena Andersson: Iron Lady

The Kronofogden name and symbol photographed on a translucent glass sign beside a window.

Money

Swedish inquiry proposes easier debt relief and three-year plans

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar in a formal portrait taken in May 2018.

Politics

Nooshi Dadgostar: Agent Provocateur

Green Party co-leaders Daniel Helldén and Amanda Lind in a side-by-side editorial composite.

Politics

Daniel Helldén and Amanda Lind: A Green Revolution

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the U.S. Department of State in Washington in March 2024.

Politics

Ulf Kristersson: Fund the Rich

Simona Mohamsson speaking during an interview at Almedalen.

Politics

Simona Mohamsson: Crash Landing

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson speaking at Långholmen in Stockholm in 2024.

Politics

Jimmie Åkesson: From Pariah to Power Broker

Simona Mohamsson speaking during an interview at Almedalen.

Politics

Liberals hit record low after ‘selling out’ to SD

Flowers, candles, a Norwegian ribbon and a sign reading 'UTØYA' between red hearts at a memorial outside Oslo Cathedral.

Nordics & Europe

Norway warns far-right threat has grown 15 years after Utøya

Green beans and red apples displayed in crates at a produce market.

Economy

Sweden funds healthcare, but healthy eating is still a class issue

A Swedish flag flying outside the historic Radhus building in Jonkoping.

Politics

New Swedish welfare rule: join work-focused activity or risk losing support

A female castor bean tick (Ixodes ricinus) resting on dry grass.

Healthcare

Watch out this summer: TBE infections rising sharply

The Försäkringskassan sign on the agency’s main office building in Stockholm.

Politics

Sweden proposes new sick pay and parental benefit rules for self-employed workers

The red Migrationsverket name and bridge symbol displayed on a glass office wall.

Belonging

Sweden Granted Citizenship in Just One-Third of June Decisions

Official head-and-shoulders portrait of Ludvig Aspling against a white background.

Politics

SD Doubles Down: Sweden Has Too Many “Ethnically Foreign” People

A white Migrationsverket flag flying outside against green trees.

Belonging

Sweden’s track-change repeal hit restaurant workers hardest—most of 700 approvals came through permanent residence

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

Making It

Sweden opens review of CSN income limits and long degrees

Historic orange and ochre buildings line a cobblestone street in Stockholm's Gamla Stan.

Life Here

57% of Swedes still live where homes are scarce

An older woman wearing a face mask walks with a rollator on a sidewalk in Jönköping.

Healthcare

Sweden mobilised SEK 155bn for Ukraine. Elderly care still lacks workers

A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Crime & justice

Crime fell on paper—but assault reports rose in Sweden

A Kronofogden sign mounted on an exterior wall beside a flowering tree in daylight.

Life Here

Kronofogden warns of longer summer waits

The Centre Party's public political tent at Almedalen Week in Visby.

Politics

Centre MEP gets role in EU carbon-market negotiations

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

Politics

Sweden vows to fight weaker EU carbon market

Johan Forssell wearing a dark suit and red tie outside the Riksdag during its 2018 opening.

DailySweden view

Sweden cannot claim to protect migrant mothers while splitting their families

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

Citizenship

What happens if you fail Sweden’s citizenship test?

A close view of the green Arbetsförmedlingen symbol and bilingual agency name on a glass-fronted building.

Making It

Sweden’s registered unemployment falls by 22,000 in June

The red Migrationsverket name and bridge symbol displayed on a glass office wall.

Permits & visas

The Swedish job offer the Migration Agency may not trust

An upward daylight view of Skatteverket's Kronan office facade and entrance sign in Sundbyberg.

Making It

The pension swap that only works above the ceiling

The red Migrationsverket name and bridge symbol displayed on a glass office wall.

Tech

The startup work-permit discount is narrower than it sounds

A white Migrationsverket flag flying outside against green trees.

Politics

Sweden’s opposition parties reject return grants for citizens

Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist in a posed indoor portrait.

Work & labour

C wants SEK 738m shifted from return grants to jobs and integration

Sweden Democrats supporters hold party flags reading 'Heja Jimmie' during Almedalen Week in Visby in July 2014.

Migration

SD: “Sweden has far too many people who are not ethnic Swedes”

An existing section of Route 259, Södertörnsleden, east of Gladö kvarn in 2011.

Power & Consequence

Top court rejects Climate Act challenge to major road project

Offshore wind turbines at the Lillgrund wind farm in the Öresund.

Politics

Tanum Moderate criticises government's Vidar wind approval

The historic Göta Court of Appeal building in Jönköping.

Crime & justice

Appeal court raises former Växjö politician's sentence to four years

People visit the Christian Democrats' public political tent during Almedalen Week in 2023.

Politics

Kiruna Christian Democrat candidate quits after NMR links emerge

People visit the Green Party's public political tent during Almedalen Week in 2023.

Politics

Green Party seeks pause to Google's Torsboda deal

Processing towers and industrial equipment at the Preemraff oil refinery in Lysekil.

Economy

Swedish diesel price jumps SEK 1.40 in two days

Apoteket and Kronans Apotek pharmacy entrances side by side at Kungens Kurva in 2016

Work & labour

Sweden’s top migration court declines to hear Kiruna pharmacists’ case—the 10-day job-ad rule behind their removal

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson speaking at Långholmen in Stockholm in 2024.

DailySweden view

SD’s repatriation proposal puts a price on who counts as Swedish

Danvikshem nursing home beside the water in Stockholm.

Healthcare

Sweden expands national workforce plan to eldercare

Swedish development minister Benjamin Dousa standing outdoors.

World

Sweden adds SEK 1.4 billion to World Bank support for Ukraine

A grocery store aisle in Sweden with packaged food displayed on shelves.

Consumer rights

Sweden orders review of potentially misleading food labels

The Försäkringskassan sign on the agency’s main office building in Stockholm.

Family

Försäkringskassan told to speed support for parents of seriously ill children

A person holding a smartphone with its screen visible.

Health

Sweden orders review of social media's effects on boys

Bridge construction work on national road 27 at Osdal in Sweden.

Transport

Trafikverket told to cut costs on Norrbotniabanan rail project

A large active construction site with cranes and partly completed structures in Malmö.

Housing

Swedish inquiry will test more housing near military sites

A PostNord delivery van parked in Skogås, south of Stockholm.

Politics

Sweden orders review of postal needs during war and crisis

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

Politics

Sweden proposes environmental penalties up to SEK 5 million

A white Migrationsverket flag flying outside against green trees.

Citizenship

Moderates want domestic-violence convictions to block citizenship

An SJ X40 regional double-decker train stands at Sundbyberg station in March 2006.

Transport

Heat slows Swedish trains and turns road asphalt slippery

Participants working together at a technology hackathon in Stockholm

Tech

The belonging test Swedish tech teams can actually document

LO-borgen trade union headquarters building in Stockholm

Tech

Why Swedish tech reorgs rarely start with the manager

Front side of an EU Blue Card electronic residence permit template

Tech

The EU Blue Card is not just a richer work permit

Borshuset, the historic stock exchange building in Stockholm

Tech

When Swedish startup options become salary, not upside

Swedish Security Service vehicles parked in Visby during Almedalen Week

Tech

The quiet filter inside Swedish security-tech jobs

Simona Mohamsson speaking during an interview at Almedalen.

Politics

Centre and Liberals clash over unemployment figures

Centre Party MEP Abir Al-Sahlani standing outdoors.

Politics

Swedish MEP reports Danish colleague over 'go home' remark

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson speaking at Almedalen Week in 2017.

Politics

PFAS pesticide review opens new divide between S and SD

The Swedish Migration Agency office in Solna.

Politics

Tidö parties consider earlier release for people facing expulsion

Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Stockholm.

Politics

Government and opposition split over targeted healthcare grants

Ballot papers laid out for Sweden's 2014 general election.

Politics

Election Authority wants tougher rules as more than 100 parties register

A person holding a smartphone with its screen visible.

Crime & justice

New law requires platforms to remove gang recruitment channels within an hour

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

Citizenship

First Swedish citizenship test will contain around 60 questions

Social Democratic election campaign signs on a street in Malmö.

Politics

Social Democrats will support criminal-responsibility age of 14

Floodwater covering a road beneath a railway in Floby, Sweden.

Politics

Social Democrats propose climate-preparedness package

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

Politics

Sweden's new security adviser left notebook at NATO summit

Offshore wind turbines at the Lillgrund wind farm in the Öresund.

Climate

Government approves three wind farms but rejects 11 offshore projects

The Centre Party's public political tent at Almedalen Week in Visby.

Politics

Centre Party seeks rejection of criminal justice overhaul

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson speaking at Långholmen in Stockholm in 2024.

Politics

SD wants repatriation grant opened to people who relinquish Swedish citizenship

Aedes aegypti mosquito, a vector for chikungunya virus, on human skin

Healthcare

Ixchiq vaccine use restricted to people at high chikungunya risk

Alopecia areata causing a distinct bald patch on the back of an adult's head

Healthcare

Stronger safety warnings coming for alopecia medicine Litfulo

Ringhals nuclear power station seen from the sea on Sweden's west coast

Climate

Sweden removes coastal bans on potential nuclear sites

Migration Agency office building in Gothenburg

Migration

New asylum screening rules change support for unaccompanied children

Entrance to a Swedish government service office with Tax Agency and Enforcement Authority signs

Migration

Six Swedish agencies must report suspected undocumented residents

Lautaro Martínez and Lionel Messi together during Argentina’s World Cup match against Egypt in Atlanta

Sport

Argentina turn England over late to reach World Cup final

Office buildings reflected at night in Bagmane Tech Park in Bengaluru

Tech

Stockholm versus Bengaluru: where does a senior developer keep more income?

Swedish Migration Agency office building in Solna

Tech

What happens to your work permit after a technology layoff?

Ericsson office building illuminated at winter dusk in Kista

Tech

The Swedish employers still recruiting English-speaking engineers

Participants working together at a technology hackathon in Stockholm

Tech

Why international developers struggle to build a social life in Sweden

Kista Science Tower office building in Stockholm’s technology district

Tech

What Sweden’s tech workers are actually earning in 2026

Kista Science Tower rises above Stockholm’s Kista technology district.

Tech

Sweden’s SEK 34,470 work-permit floor is not the full salary test

A young European hedgehog photographed in Sweden. Hedgehogs are among the species added to the national protected list.

Environment

Sweden adds hedgehogs and eels to protected-species list

An electrical substation in Tuntorp, Lysekil Municipality. Energy is one of 11 sectors covered by the resilience bill.

Civil Society

Swedish bill sets resilience duties for 11 critical sectors

Apartment blocks in Södermalm, Stockholm. The bill concerns housing-cooperative homes across Sweden.

Housing

Swedish bill widens grounds to forfeit co-op homes

The Trygg-Hansa office complex on Fleminggatan in Stockholm, near Statskontoret's visiting address.

Belonging

Protected housing in Sweden increasingly a last resort, investigator says

An archival view through a damaged wall towards a maternity hospital struck in Dnipro, Ukraine

Civil Society

MSF report documents widening attacks on healthcare in Ukraine

A newborn baby held skin to skin on a parent's chest with the baby's face visible

Health

Karolinska study finds newborn collapse clusters in first hours

An archival Red Cross Ebola response team in Kikwit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Africa

Sweden allocates SEK 45 million to regional Ebola response

Syrian refugees with luggage gathered outside Stockholm Central station after arriving in Sweden in September 2015.

DailySweden view

Sweden must not let misfortune become grounds for losing a home

The Swedish Migration Agency building in Solna, photographed from outside.

Citizenship

Some temporary-permit holders can now apply for Swedish citizenship

Migration

Sweden starts broader good-conduct checks for residence permits

An ICA grocery shop in Mariannelund, Sweden.

Economy

Sweden's preliminary inflation rate eased to 0.7% in June

Exterior of the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm.

Sweden Explained

National Library to make Swedish-Jewish heritage easier to search

The Swedish Migration Agency office in Solna, seen from outside.

Migration

Sweden proposes two-year wait in tighter family-reunification rules

Bridge construction work on national road 27 at Osdal in Sweden.

Transport

Sweden explores public-private projects and a state road company

Customer-service staff working with headsets in a call centre office.

Consumer rights

Swedish proposal would put legal force behind customer-service duties

The Helix forensic psychiatric clinic building in Flemingsberg, Huddinge.

Healthcare

Inquiry will examine state responsibility for forensic psychiatric care

Entrance to the Public Health Agency of Sweden in Solna.

Health

Sweden orders review of generative AI risks for children

Permits & visas

Sweden proposes work permits that follow workers between employers

Stone sculptures and facade details at Stora Nygatan 2B in Stockholm, the Labour Court's address.

Work & labour

Labour Court says employer may end job immediately when worker lacks permit

A tyre swing hanging at a public playground in Lund, Sweden.

Power & Consequence

Child poverty gaps run deep within Swedish municipalities, new map shows

Bundles of cash laid out after being seized by economic-crime officers.

Economy

Three more Swedish authorities can seize assets for debt collection

A digital forensic specialist examines a seized mobile phone at a computer workstation.

Crime & justice

Swedish police call for new powers to stop crimes in digital spaces

Integration minister Simona Mohamsson speaking during an interview at Almedalen.

Politics

Swedish inquiry will examine religious radicalisation and institutional infiltration

Swedish development minister Benjamin Dousa standing outdoors.

World

Sweden adopts nine aid strategies worth about SEK 6 billion

Workers receive boxes of vaccine doses delivered to the Central African Republic.

Healthcare

Sweden allocates SEK 250 million to vaccines and maternal health

A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Crime & justice

Swedish police report lowest first-half shooting total since records began

Law-enforcement officers conduct a human-trafficking operation inside a nightclub.

Crime & justice

Sweden adopts 2026–2028 plan against prostitution and human trafficking

A Saab GlobalEye surveillance aircraft displayed at the Royal International Air Tattoo.

Business

NATO opens talks to buy up to 10 Saab GlobalEye aircraft

The Swedish Navy submarine HMS Gotland moored in Ystad harbour.

Europe

Poland agrees to buy three Saab A26 submarines from Sweden

A butterfly resting on a flowering plant in Töfsingdalen National Park.

Environment

Sweden proposes landscape-scale measures to restore threatened habitats

A Leica total station surveying instrument mounted on a tripod.

Housing

Municipal land-survey authorities must adopt Lantmäteriet’s systems

Green algal bloom spreading across coastal water near Gotland.

Environment

Sweden funds new projects to cut Baltic Sea nutrient pollution

Processing towers and industrial equipment at the Preemraff oil refinery in Lysekil.

Economy

Sweden’s energy supply remains stable despite worsening security around Hormuz

A yellow multi-storey residential building in an alley in Stockholm’s Gamla Stan.

Housing

Property buyers face stricter identity checks for title-deed applications

Rows of photovoltaic solar panels installed across a sloping roof.

Housing

New Swedish planning rules speed up some solar and heat-pump permits

A weathered abandoned boat lying in vegetation on a coastal saltmarsh.

Environment

Sweden extends support for scrapping old boats and two-stroke engines

A large active construction site with cranes and partly completed structures in Malmö.

Housing

Boverket’s new building rules now apply to every new case

A professional truck driver seated inside the cab of a lorry.

Transport

Professional driver training to add e-learning and advanced simulators

Rows of illuminated server racks inside a data centre.

Tech

US court ruling raises fresh uncertainty over EU–US data transfers

A Swedish Police mobile surveillance mast fitted with multiple cameras.

Tech

Swedish privacy watchdog begins oversight of police live facial recognition

The emergency number 112 printed on the side of a Finnish police car.

Tech

Some 4G phones still cannot reliably call 112 after network shutdowns

A large port crane standing above transport infrastructure in Gothenburg.

Transport

Transport operators face new duty to report security-sensitive arrangements

A yellow-and-blue Västtåg train standing at Bollebygd railway station.

Transport

Göteborg–Borås railway set to reopen on 16 July after Bollebygd derailment

A person jumping high above a trampoline outdoors.

Healthcare

Summer months account for 35% of Sweden’s injury-related sick leave cases

An empty classroom with rows of desks and chairs in Tollarp, Sweden.

Family

New VAB rules used most often for school meetings, agency finds

The Försäkringskassan sign on the agency’s main office building in Stockholm.

Family

Three Swedish social-insurance changes take effect from July 1

A woman uses a finger-stick glucose meter to test her blood sugar.

Healthcare

Swedish regulator warns against diabetes supplement promoted through fake AI videos

A couple reviewing household bills with a calculator and laptop at a kitchen table.

Consumer rights

Swedish inquiry proposes shorter debt relief and new repayment rules

Telephone sales operator wearing a headset in an office

Consumer rights

Sweden launches inquiry into possible ban on unsolicited phone sales