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Politics

Sweden consults on ending traditional premium-pension insurance

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Pensionsmyndigheten staff beside an orange outreach cart at Almedalen in June 2025.

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A hairdresser works with a customer in a salon in Brastad, Sweden, in October 2018.

News

Women with foreign backgrounds gain ground among Sweden’s new business owners

Nooshi Dadgostar speaking at a lectern during Almedalen in June 2026.

Politics

Red-green voters split over Left Party cabinet seats

A passenger beside a moving-floor accessibility platform inside a train in Sweden, photographed in July 2012.

Politics

Swedish inquiry proposes disability card for EU travel

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Archive photograph of a letter delivered to an apartment in Stockholm in June 2016.

News

Payment fault sends some child benefits by voucher

A hairdresser works with a customer inside a salon in Brastad, Sweden, in October 2018.

Politics

Sweden proposes dropping 30-day discount-price rule for services

A woman uses a smartphone in Tyresö, Sweden, in August 2016.

Politics

Sweden’s product-liability bill would cover apps and lost data

An ambulance beside Kungsträdgården tram stop in Stockholm, photographed in April 2026.

Politics

Inquiry proposes wider information-sharing to protect ambulance crews

The empty Riksdag chamber in Stockholm, with blue seats and the speaking platform, photographed in August 2019.

Politics

Swedish committee challenges EU plans for electricity charges

Magdalena Andersson speaks into a headset microphone in Stockholm on 24 February 2024.

Politics

Swedish parliament rejects Andersson as prime minister

The red-brick block at the Valnöten 2 property in Solna, photographed in March 2021.

News

Poison centre warns call surge could delay urgent advice

Ulf Kristersson speaks at microphones in Berlin in January 2025.

Politics

Moderates gain four points in new Novus poll

The Swedish parliament chamber, photographed in August2019.

Politics

Left Party seeks clarity on Andersson’s conditions

Magdalena Andersson meets students outside Burgårdens gymnasium in Gothenburg in August2026.

Politics

Andersson sets conditions for Left Party ministers

Andreas Norlén speaks into a handheld microphone at the Göteborg Book Fair in September 2025.

Politics

Speaker refuses Mohamed Ali’s personal-leave request

Ulf Kristersson gestures while speaking at Almedalen Week in 2024.

Politics

Kristersson denies centre-right government negotiations

Measles rash on an anonymous area of skin, photographed in Nigeria in February 2002.

News

Sweden declares Urkult measles outbreak over after 40 cases

The Swedish Parliament chamber with curved blue seating and lecterns, photographed on 14 August 2019.

Politics

Greens seek government help to draft deportation stop law

The Swedish Parliament chamber with blue seats, central lecterns and Swedish and EU flags.

Politics

Sweden Democrats deny agreeing to a deportation stop law

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

Politics

Sweden Democrats top social-media ranking as left-wing voices gain

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

Politics

Greens gain as Liberals fall below 4% in first post-election poll

A Volvo EX30 displayed in the baggage-claim area at Gothenburg Landvetter Airport in February 2026.

News

Volvo recalls more than 15,000 EX30s in Sweden over headrest risk

Janine Alm Ericson speaking at a demonstration in Stockholm in February 2022.

Politics

Greens press for red-green budget talks despite coalition deadlock

Magdalena Andersson speaking with people during a visit to Burgårdens gymnasium in Gothenburg in August 2026.

Politics

Andersson plays down risk of losing Centre to the right

Ebba Busch with a headset microphone addressing an audience during Almedalen Week in June 2026.

Politics

Busch confirms talks on a centre-right government

Three Swedish Air Force Gripen aircraft fly at the Kaivari air show in Helsinki in June 2017.

Politics

Sweden seeks approval for NATO forces in Finland and Latvia in 2027

The Speaker’s platform, rostrums and benches in the Swedish Parliament chamber, photographed in August 2019.

Politics

All eight parties back work on young-adult deportation stop law

Nooshi Dadgostar speaking at a Left Party lectern during Almedalen Week in June 2026.

Politics

Left and Greens will vote against an S-only government

Speaker Andreas Norlén speaking beside a Swedish Parliament presentation at Almedalen in June 2023.

Politics

Parliament to vote on Andersson as prime minister on Thursday

Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson speaks to news media outside the Ministry of Finance in March 2023.

Politics

Svantesson seeks eight-party deal on Sweden’s 2027 budget

Johan Forssell speaking at a press conference in Brussels in June 2023.

Politics

Opposition seeks Forssell hearing over young-adult deportations

Mohamed Abdukardir Ali wearing a suit against a green background.

Politics

Left Party MP Mohamed Ali goes on sick leave

Patrik Hofbauer standing with folded arms outside a Telia entrance in Solna.

News

Telia plans to cut 260 jobs in Sweden

Johan Forssell speaking at a press conference in Brussels in June 2023.

Politics

Minister defends young-adult deportation rules as Left warns of delays

Magdalena Andersson speaks beside a sign-language interpreter at Almedalen Week on 26 June 2025.

Politics

Andersson gets another day for government talks

A SAS Link Embraer 195 beside a jet bridge and baggage equipment at Oslo Airport in August 2024.

News

SAS Link strike averted as cabin crew prepare to vote on deal

Ida Gabrielsson speaks with a headset microphone at Almedalen on 26 June 2026.

Politics

Left deputy challenges Centre leader to test her coalition route

An empty classroom at Viktoriaskolan in Skara, photographed on 19 August 2017.

News

Swedish pass rates rise sharply with time spent in Sweden

Jessica Rosencrantz, left, talks with other officials at Malmö Rådhus on 1 October 2025.

Politics

Sweden rejects new EU budget compromise

Mohamed Abdukardir Ali wearing a suit against a green background.

Politics

Left Party MP Mohamed Ali says he will attend parliament on Monday

Tobias Andersson speaking at Almedalen in July 2017.

Politics

SD figure blames veil-ban proposal for losing young voters

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

Work & labour

Swedish police detain 20 workers after industrial-site checks

A hand holds a phone displaying Swedish mobile BankID, photographed in September 2024.

News

BankID service restored after Friday evening disruption

Small boats moored at Askeviksbadets Camping on Lake Vänern, photographed on 3 August 2017.

News

Gale warning for northern Vänern on Saturday

Magdalena Andersson talks with people outside Burgårdens gymnasium in Gothenburg in August 2026.

Politics

Andersson weighs her next move before Monday’s deadline

Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist talks with people at a Centre Party campaign booth in Gothenburg in August 2026.

Politics

Red-green meeting ends without tackling the cabinet dispute

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar speaks into a headset microphone at Almedalen Week in June 2026.

Politics

Left Party presses Andersson to name her coalition partners

Navi Pillay holds a microphone and gestures during a discussion in Nairobi.

News

Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for defending international law

Destination Gotland’s white and red Visby ferry approaching Visby, photographed in September2025.

News

Rough weather delays Gotland ferries into Saturday

A Swedish Air Force Gripen banks with wingtip smoke trails at the Royal International Air Tattoo in England on 16 July 2023.

Politics

Sweden sends Gripens to NATO nuclear exercise

Ulf Kristersson walks past reporters at the EPP congress in Valencia on 30 April 2025.

Politics

Kristersson overtakes Andersson in confidence poll

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

Migration

Sweden expects to fill just 350 of 900 refugee places

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

Work & labour

Securitas settles discrimination case over hijab ban

An unidentified hand holds the burgundy cover of a Swedish passport.

Citizenship

Swedish citizenship applicants face months waiting for test results

Blood collection tubes and sampling equipment at a Swedish health centre, photographed on 16 November 2010.

News

Ocrevus patients urged to seek care for signs of liver injury

An empty classroom with blue chairs, grouped desks and teaching displays in Tollarp, photographed in May 2009.

News

Seven in ten teachers say pupils lack the support they need

An official places a Riksdag ballot envelope in a sealed box in Brastad on 13 September 2026.

Politics

83% of red-green voters prefer a four-party government to another election

The Riksdag chamber in Stockholm, photographed in August 2019.

Politics

Sweden proposes new permits as it moves to join high-seas treaty

Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist speaking with people inside a Centre Party campaign booth in Gothenburg in August 2026.

Politics

Centre seeks agreement on problems before negotiating a government

LRF’s headquarters at Gröna näringslivets hus on Franzéngatan in Stockholm.

Politics

Business groups criticise exclusion from Centre’s four-party meeting

Elisabeth Svantesson speaking to reporters outside the Ministry of Finance in March 2023.

Politics

Government expects Sweden’s downturn to end in 2027

Mikael Damberg speaking with a cheek microphone at Almedalen Week in June 2026.

Politics

Social Democrats and Greens accept Centre’s Christian Democrat meeting

Ebba Busch speaking on a screen beside a conference stage and seated audience at Techarena in Stockholm.

Politics

Centre and Christian Democrat leaders meet before red-green talks

An uprooted tree exposes a moss-covered root plate among standing trees in Lickershamn, Gotland.

News

Strong winds could disrupt travel in Gävleborg and Uppsala tonight

A paper reel and industrial machinery at Braviken mill in Norrköping, photographed in October 2014.

Politics

SEK 1.5bn in electricity-tax relief misses its intended target

A Swedish Patriot launcher displayed behind barriers in Malmö in June 2022.

Politics

Sweden sends Patriot and 100 troops to protect Ukraine aid hub

Swedish month and weekday labels surround a seasons diagram on a preschool teaching wall.

News

Preschool-teacher recruitment falls before tougher Swedish entry rule

Yellow timber Bro school building with red roof and classroom windows in Brodalen.

News

Flooding closes roads and forces a school move in Bohuslän

Jimmie Åkesson speaking on a blue Sweden Democrats stage at Almedalen in July 2017.

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Åkesson cannot rewrite the teenage deportations out of his record

Two Swedish police officers walk on patrol in Orrskogen, Malung.

Politics

Inquiry proposes home searches to serve area-ban orders

A hand holds a red pen over Försäkringskassan paperwork beside a laptop.

Politics

Benefit recipients could face repayment despite acting in good faith

Heavy rain falls beside a red residential building in Brastad, Sweden.

News

Gävleborg faces up to 100mm of rain and flood risk

Blue seats and curved desks face the presiding table in Sweden’s Parliament chamber.

Politics

SD’s Mattias Karlsson Bergman elected culture committee chair

A classroom session with laptops and a projected presentation at Lund University in 2011.

News

Auditors urge tougher study-loan rules after repayment problems

A self-service checkout with card-payment terminal at IKEA Kungens Kurva in 2015.

News

Retailers face new consumer-credit duties from 20 November

An illuminated diesel dispenser and card-payment terminal at a petrol station in Avesta, Sweden.

News

Energy prices push Swedish inflation to 1.5%

Mohamed Abdukardir Ali wearing a suit against a green background.

Politics

Threatening letter demands Mohamed Ali leave parliament

Cars travel along a road with slush beside the pavement in Lund, Sweden.

News

Snow and slush could disrupt Thursday travel in central Sweden

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar speaking at Järvaveckan in 2022.

Politics

Four Swedish parties agree on plan to stop teenage deportations

Uniformed personnel beside the Latvia–Belarus border fence in Krāslava municipality in August 2023.

News

TikTok accounts sell smuggling routes through Belarus

Chefs preparing food in the kitchen at Basement in Gothenburg in December 2011.

News

Employer failings put workers’ right to stay at risk

An SJ double-deck passenger train beside a platform at Västerås station.

News

Track fault delays trains through Västerås

Jimmie Åkesson speaking with a headset microphone at Långholmen in Stockholm on 4 May 2024.

Politics

Sweden Democrats oppose state apology to Sámi people

Magdalena Andersson at a lectern with a headset microphone during Almedalen Week in Visby in June 2025.

Politics

Social Democrats face calls to rethink election strategy

A glassworker handles glowing glass at Bergdala glassworks in Sweden.

DailySweden view

Centre’s red line is a poor defence of enterprise

Left Party campaigners talk with voters at Sergels torg before Sweden's 2022 election.

DailySweden view

Centre is helping make the case for taxing the rich

Blood-testing tubes and supplies arranged in a compartmented tray at a Swedish primary-care centre.

DailySweden view

Patients deserve more than Centre’s fear of a Left Party minister

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

Politics

Centre holds firm on red line against Left Party ministers

Passengers queue below departure-information screens at Stockholm Arlanda Terminal 5.

News

Airlines must explain compensation rights within four days from October 2027

A sailboat passes rocky shores at Stångehuvud in Lysekil, Sweden.

News

Skagerrak gale warning returns for Wednesday night

An unidentified hand holds the burgundy cover of a Swedish passport.

Citizenship

Swedish passport holder told he was never a citizen

A train passes waiting travellers at Katrineholm Central station.

Transport

EU opens free travel passes to young residents in Sweden

Visitors and exhibitors move between stands at a job fair in Malmö.

Work & labour

Swedish fund finds no faster job returns after benefit cuts

Close view of dense dry grass in Norrkila, Sweden

News

Very high fire risk in parts of eastern Sweden on Wednesday

Curved prescription counter beneath a Recept + Rådgivning sign at Apotek Hjärtat in Tyresö

News

Amimox shortage: alternatives need a new prescription

People queue beside a white passenger coach at a sheltered stop in Visby

News

Gotland evacuation drill starts Monday; nobody leaves the island

Wooden entrance doors and a Mojang Studios sign on a brick facade in Stockholm

News

Minecraft maker faces EU scrutiny over virtual currency

People gathered outside Nacka gymnasium beneath Swedish flags

News

School-leavers face a tougher start in Sweden’s jobs market

Long apartment blocks at Strandliden in Hässelby Strand, with taller housing behind

News

Three-room rents reach 9,528 kronor as increases ease

A Swedish police helicopter seen from below against blue sky and clouds

News

Drone pilots warned as Lycksele exercise enters final day

Maria Mindhammar wearing glasses and a dark jacket against a grey background

News

Young adults with paused deportations urged to apply again

A teacher stands beside a whiteboard while adult learners sit around classroom tables in Lund.

News

Sweden’s citizenship language test faces delay

Construction workers in high-visibility clothing move a safety barrier beside a Gothenburg pavement.

News

Family permit renewals now face income checks

Electric scooters parked beside a yellow building on Pilgatan in Stockholm.

News

Father fined 10,500 kronor over son’s e-scooter

Cars and a truck stand beside fuel pumps under a canopy at a filling station in Malung, Sweden.

News

Petrol prices rise as Sweden’s tax cut ends

Terracotta figures displayed together behind glass at Stockholm’s Mediterranean Museum.

News

Two Stockholm museums face closure over rising rents

Water flowing from a red-handled outdoor tap beside green vegetation in Sweden.

News

Water shortage warnings stretch into autumn in 15 counties

Two adults learning Swedish together at a computer during a workshop.

News

October benefits bring activity requirements after three months of support

Pupils drawing with pencils at desks in a classroom at Ålstensskolan.

News

School admission target set at two months for asylum-seeking children

Apoteket and Kronans Apotek entrances with medicine shelves at Kungens Kurva in 2016.

News

New medicine-pricing rules change how subsidy applications are assessed

Jimmie Åkesson speaking at Långholmen in Stockholm in May 2024.

News

Sweden Democrats seek fuel-tax extension as relief expires

Nooshi Dadgostar speaking at a lectern during Almedalen in June 2026.

News

Left Party seeks immediate halt to young-adult deportations

Server cabinets and overhead cables of the Berzelius computer at Linköping University.

News

New cybersecurity rules put security duties on management

Johan Forssell at a press-conference microphone in Brussels in June 2023.

News

New asylum rules bring county limits and attendance checks

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

News

Greens push for a red-green majority government

Ebba Busch speaking at Almedalen in June 2026.

News

Busch demands a vote on Andersson as prime minister

Ulf Kristersson speaking at a lectern in Berlin in January 2025.

News

Centre Party wants Kristersson to try forming a government

A white lorry beside an asphalt container at Uddevalla port in Sweden.

News

E45 shut after Strömsund bridge damaged by heavy transport

A mentor explains a cooking task to learners in a Swedish kitchen.

News

More young people in Sweden fall outside work and study

Annika Hirvonen in her official parliamentary portrait.

News

Greens push to halt deportations of young people raised in Sweden

The dry-cargo ship Ice Crystal on Lake Mälaren in January 2022.

News

Sweden’s trade deficit widens despite rising exports

Andreas Norlén speaks at a Riksdag presentation during Almedalen in June 2023.

News

Speaker sets new government talks for Wednesday

Apartment buildings beside a footpath on Getingevägen in Lund in September 2023.

News

Disabled residents face a harder path to moving home

Workers and construction equipment on a barge at Slussen in Stockholm in September 2024.

News

Foreign-born workers lead Sweden's employment gains

Nooshi Dadgostar speaks at the Left Party lectern during Almedalen in June 2026.

News

Left Party reaches out to Centre as government talks stall

A Swedish tracked military vehicle pulls a loaded trailer on a road in Visby.

News

Defence audits expose gaps in Sweden's military readiness

Children in red and black kits play football in front of a goal at Brastad Arena.

News

Fritidskortet struggles to reach children under financial pressure

Nooshi Dadgostar in a cream coat outside the Riksdag in July 2021.

News

Sweden’s sick-pay fight puts household income on the negotiating table

The Migration Agency office building on Vestagatan in Gothenburg, photographed in 2018.

News

Sweden’s young-adult permit relief leaves a harder test at 21

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

News

Sweden’s government talks stall as work-permit deadlines approach

Magdalena Andersson speaks at a Social Democratic lectern during Almedalen Week in June 2025.

News

Andersson abandons first bid to form Sweden’s government

A hand holds a phone displaying a ChatGPT response in front of a laptop, May 2023.

News

Six in ten Swedes now use AI services

Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist campaigning in Malmo on 28 August 2026.

News

Business leaders press Centre Party over taxes and sick pay

A PostNord delivery vehicle parked in Huddinge in June 2022, with mail visible inside.

News

PostNord called to meeting over election delivery failures

Andreas Norlén speaking beside a Riksdag presentation at Almedalen in June 2023.

News

Left Party backs Norlén for another term as Speaker

Mohamed Abdukardir Ali wearing a suit against a green background.

News

Mohamed Ali denies vote rigging: “I haven’t done it”

A woman points to Swedish grammar on a classroom whiteboard.

News

Study urges Sweden to rethink crisis messages for migrant communities

The east facade of Sweden’s Parliament building across the water in Stockholm.

News

Sweden proposes offence for using trafficking-linked services

The illuminated SCB entrance sign at Åkullegatan 14 in Örebro.

News

Fixed mortgage rates rose in August

An anonymous hand holds a real phone displaying the Swedish BankID app and Swedish-language controls.

News

Borrowed phones used to hijack BankID across Sweden

Stefan Löfven in a dark suit and red tie.

News

Former Swedish PM Löfven reportedly receives death threats in Varberg

A person fills a white water container at a kitchen tap beside stored food.

News

Most surveyed in Sweden face barriers to preparing for a crisis

Separate party ballot papers in racks at a polling station in Brastad during the June 2024 European election.

News

Swedish parties hesitate over a common ballot paper

A man holds a pen near his mouth at an office desk covered in papers, beside a laptop.

News

Record election appeals force Sweden’s review board to add staff

Magdalena Andersson speaking at Almedalen in June 2025, beside a sign-language interpreter.

News

Government deadlock puts Sweden’s budget timetable at risk

Cans on a beer production line in Qingdao.

News

Swedish firms move production to the US to avoid tariffs

Two adult students write notes at classroom desks, with an open book beside them.

News

CSN support rises by 92 kronor — mostly in loans

A Swedish police officer checks a car at a passport-control point at Lernacken in Malmö.

News

Swedish border police remove possible trafficking victims before identifying them

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar speaks at Almedalen Week in June 2026.

News

Left and Green parties want abortion law to name all pregnant people

Riksbank Governor Erik Thedéen in a dark suit and brown tie.

News

Riksbank holds rate at 1.75% and points to possible rises this year

News

Family reunion rules change on 1 October: what applicants need to check

A voting official places a municipal ballot envelope into a sealed box in Brastad.

News

Liberal breakaway parties win seats in two municipalities

Ballot envelopes and a pen inside a green polling booth in Brastad.

News

Three suspects listed in reopened Borlänge election inquiry

Magdalena Andersson at an Almedalen Week lectern on 26 June 2025.

News

Andersson says she can form a government as talks continue

A woman leans over a desk to check a home energy monitor.

News

Fixing your electricity price is becoming more expensive

A woman reviews documents while using a laptop at a table.

News

Sweden’s pension services face weekend shutdowns

Magdalena Andersson at an Almedalen Week lectern on 26 June 2025.

News

Andersson given mandate to explore forming Sweden’s next government

Tidö suffers Sweden’s first one-term government defeat in 32 years

News

Tidö suffers Sweden’s first one-term government defeat in 32 years

An SJ night train stands at Stockholm Central station.

News

Sweden backs 14 bids for €43.4m in EU transport funds

Jimmie Åkesson speaks and raises his right hand at Långholmen, Stockholm, on 4 May 2024.

News

Åkesson accuses opposition parties of mobilising “Islamist voters”

Jimmie Åkesson speaks with a headset microphone at Almedalen in June 2026.

News

Sweden Democrats blame new citizens for election defeat

A truck driver in a safety vest works at the wheel inside a lorry cab.

News

Sweden raises dangerous-goods exam fees from December

Four-panel editorial composite of Ulf Kristersson, Jimmie Åkesson, Ebba Busch and Simona Mohamsson speaking separately.

DailySweden view

TIDÖ’S REIGN IS OVER

A person holds a bank card while using a laptop for online shopping.

News

Unfair terms found at 46 certified online shops

Ulf Kristersson speaking at a lectern in Berlin in January 2025.

News

Sweden’s prime minister Kristersson submits resignation

Jimmie Åkesson speaking and gesturing beside a lectern.

News

Åkesson may take a break if Sweden Democrats enter opposition

Nooshi Dadgostar speaks into a headset microphone at Almedalen in June 2026.

News

Left Party insists on cabinet role in government talks

Election workers sort ballot envelopes on a table.

News

Sweden’s late-vote count continues on Thursday

A clinician uses a digital dermatoscope to examine a patient’s skin.

News

Melanoma cases rise as Swedish clinics change routines

Two people look at a smartphone inside a car at night.

News

Umeå police switch tactics against illegal taxi groups

Magdalena Andersson speaks to reporters during a visit to Helsinki in March 2022.

News

Opposition projection opens Andersson's path back

A mobile communications mast with multiple panel antennas against a blue sky.

News

Sweden tests mobile towers to spot small drones

Restaurant staff greet customers at the entrance to a dining room.

News

Swedish firms see best outlook in four years

Jimmie Åkesson speaking with a headset microphone at Almedalen in June 2026.

News

Åkesson holds strategy talks as Sweden awaits election result

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

News

Green Party sets three climate demands for next government

Adults queue inside a Swedish advance-voting venue.

News

Voting returned to neighbourhoods Sweden had struggled to reach

A hand places a sealed ballot envelope into a Swedish ballot box.

News

Why one in four voters stayed home in parts of rural Sweden

Left Party campaigners talk with voters at Sergels torg before Sweden's 2022 election.

News

The voters behind the Left Party's surge in disadvantaged districts

A digester and process board at the Niedergösgen biogas plant in Switzerland.

News

Sweden reviews new biogas incentives and gas security

A woman leans over a desk to check a home energy monitor.

News

Electricity prices jump across Sweden today

A nurse leans over a hospital bassinet while caring for a swaddled newborn.

News

Sweden orders new maternity-care safety measures

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

News

Green wave lifts Sweden's Greens in preliminary local results

A Saab GlobalEye surveillance aircraft with its large radar mounted above the fuselage.

News

Dutch deal links crews to Sweden's Saab GlobalEye fleet

A voting official places a Riksdag ballot envelope into a sealed ballot box in Brastad.

News

Sweden's election remains open after three-seat margin

Sweden's speaker Andreas Norlén addresses an audience at Almedalen in June 2023.

News

Sweden's speaker suggests shorter deadlines for government talks

Tobias Baudin addresses colleagues at a Social Democratic election-night gathering in September 2022.

News

Social Democratic Party secretary Tobias Baudin leaves government line-up open

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

News

Final election count begins across Sweden

A counsellor holds a circular assessment chart on a clipboard while seated indoors.

News

Sweden orders joined-up treatment for young serious offenders

Used household batteries piled inside a dedicated battery collection container.

News

Wrongly sorted batteries spark two fires a week

A PostNord delivery vehicle parked in Huddinge in June 2022, with mail visible inside.

News

PostNord ballot delay may slow Stockholm vote count

An election worker scans an identity card with a handheld scanner at an early-voting desk.

News

Sweden narrows early-vote fault on election day

People sit beside food sacks and cooking oil during an outdoor aid distribution.

News

Sweden allocates SEK 297 million for humanitarian crises

A teenager talks with a therapist in a bright counselling room.

News

Sweden expands oversight of specialist eating-disorder care

People compare printed reports and charts around a laptop at a meeting table.

News

Sweden launches new tool to target suicide prevention

A blue electric-vehicle charger stands between marked bays beneath power lines.

News

Sweden backs 17 cleaner transport projects with SEK 73 million

Anonymous hands use a smartphone displaying a market-price chart.

News

Anonymous betting markets target Sweden’s election

Sweden’s parliament building seen across the water in central Stockholm.

News

Social Democrats file KU complaint over Kristersson’s security handling

The Sollefteå hydroelectric power plant spans the Ångerman River in winter.

News

Winter power prices could more than double after dry summer

An election worker scans an identity card with a handheld scanner at an early-voting desk.

News

Early-vote fault remains unresolved in 64 municipalities

Simona Mohamsson speaks with a headset microphone on a Liberal Party stage at Almedalen in June 2025.

Opinion

From hugging Åkesson to borrowing his climate excuse

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson stands on a street in Gothenburg.

News

Social Democrats propose 12-pupil cap in school crisis plan

Police cars parked beside Scandinavium in Gothenburg.

News

Gothenburg marks a year without a fatal shooting

Alejandro Mayorkas and Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer stand beside the US and Swedish flags.

News

Sweden adopts first national strategy to seize criminal profits

Light from the Preemraff refinery glows behind trees in Lysekil Municipality at night.

News

European gas hits €81 as Sweden says supplies remain stable

A voting official places a sealed ballot envelope in a ballot box.

News

More than 2.7 million vote early before Sweden's election

A man fastens the chin strap of a black cycling helmet outdoors.

News

EU review finds safety failures in one in five helmets

Two adults talk across a desk during a job interview.

News

Graduate job prospects weaken across Swedish education routes

A teacher leads a maths lesson for pupils in a classroom.

News

Nearly 100 municipalities struggle to find qualified maths teachers

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

News

Migrationsverket faces review of religious-conversion asylum cases

Two adults talk on a city street.

News

Swedish Muslims take public questions to the street at 150 locations

Stockholm Mosque seen across a snow-covered park in winter.

News

52% of surveyed Muslim congregations report anti-Muslim incidents

The back of a security worker in a black uniform at an entrance.

News

DO says Securitas hijab ban discriminated against job applicant

An emergency doctor vehicle at Huddinge centrum in Stockholm County.

News

Critical Stockholm ambulance calls assigned too low a priority

A Swedish passport held in one hand.

News

Court applies Sweden's eight-year citizenship rule to older application

A full-scale prison-cell display with a bunk bed, toilet and small desk inside Kriminalvarden's recruitment bus.

News

Fourteen-year-olds can now be jailed for Sweden's gravest offences

Two professionals review printed charts at a table in an office.

News

Sweden orders new map of high-frequency offenders

The Øresund Bridge crosses the strait between Sweden and Denmark.

News

Øresund surplus could fund road and rail upgrades

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

News

Swedish inquiry weighs ending secrecy between authorities

A physiotherapist guides a seated patient extending one leg in a clinical rehabilitation room.

News

Sweden adopts rehabilitation strategy to narrow care gaps

Ebba Busch speaks at Almedalen in Visby on 23 June 2026.

News

Busch says Sweden Democrats are not guaranteed ministerial posts

Government buildings including Rosenbad beside Norrström in Stockholm.

News

Moderates want security vetting for future ministers

Mohammed Nour Oklah speaks to an interviewer beside a brick wall.

News

Netflix actor Mohammed Nour Oklah faces deportation risk in Sweden

A person writes on an exam sheet with a pencil at a desk.

News

Sweden's PISA results fall to record lows

A clinician in a white coat types on a laptop beside a stethoscope and handwritten notes.

News

Swedish bill would expand national health-data registers

A person uses a card reader beside a laptop for an online financial transaction.

News

Sweden begins first bank-accessibility inspections

A pale death cap mushroom grows from soil and leaf litter.

News

More than half of Swedes cannot identify a poisonous mushroom

A hand holds a smartphone displaying a Swedish SE-Alert warning message.

News

Telia character limit blocked SE-Alert warnings

A surgeon looks through an eye-surgery microscope while another clinician stands behind him.

News

Cataract grants may have relied on inflated regional figures

News

British man deported after 24 years in Sweden

A masked surgeon uses an operating microscope while an assistant stands beside a draped eye-surgery patient.

News

Surgery grants put medical priorities at risk in 16 Swedish regions

A parent holds a newborn’s small feet in one open hand.

News

All newborns in Sweden offered RSV antibodies from 10 September

The electrified railway bridge across the Torne River between Haparanda and Tornio.

News

Greens promise new rail lines and tougher delay payouts

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

News

Nearly all Swedish dental clinics charge above state benchmark

Two duck hunters travel in a small boat beside a reed hunting blind on a lake.

News

Sweden reviews gun rules for hunters without a Swedish exam

Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson speaks from a Liberalerna stage at Almedalen in June 2025.

News

Liberals reach 4.3% as Sweden's election tightens

Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson during the September 2025 budget walk.

News

Sweden proposes one tax deduction for working away from home

Nooshi Dadgostar speaks behind a lectern at Almedalen in June 2026.

News

Left Party proposes 30,000 public-sector jobs for young people

Swings stand in a snow-covered play yard at Asken preschool in Visby.

News

More preschool hours proposed for parents on social assistance

Johan Forssell outdoors at the opening of parliament in 2018.

News

Sweden raises the income bar for family reunification

An election worker scans an identity card with a handheld scanner at an early-voting desk.

News

Up to 500 voters caught in Sweden’s early-vote error

A doctoral respondent gestures towards the examiner across two lecterns, with an audience seated around them at Uppsala University.

News

Easier permanent residence kept more international PhDs in Sweden, study finds

A school librarian holds up a book beside written lesson material and a laptop.

News

Sweden considers merging Swedish and Swedish-as-a-second-language school subjects

Swedish month, season and weekday word cards beside a seasonal learning display on a preschool wall.

News

Sweden considers compulsory preschool for children with weak Swedish

Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist gestures while speaking with people in a public square.

News

Centre Party pledges to scrap Sweden’s work-permit salary floor

A train passes waiting travellers at Katrineholm Central station.

News

Weekend shutdown will stop all trains through Katrineholm

A hand holds a smartphone with a blank white screen.

News

Hidden phones may reveal themselves during Sweden’s alert test

Gloved veterinary staff examine a cat's teeth before a cleaning.

Politics

M wants vets to offer cheapest defensible treatment

A veterinary technician listens to a pit bull's chest during an examination at a clinic.

Politics

V wants national vet tariffs as prices soar

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

News

School threats and false alarms rise after Fagersta attack

Editorial illustration of two result streams converging into one surveillance ledger.

News

Chickenpox and RSV cases to become reportable from November 1

The Swedish Migration Agency office complex in Solna seen across railway tracks.

Migration

Wrong man deported after two identities were mixed up

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

Politics

Reported pro-Russia links raise questions over SD staff vetting

Alphabet posters, books and learning folders inside a Swedish preschool literacy area.

Politics

Mandatory Swedish screening proposed for young multilingual children

Skatteverket's name and symbol on the facade of its Kronan office in Sundbyberg.

Politics

Skatteverket ID cards could end in March 2027

Rows of Swedish party ballot papers at a polling station in Borlänge.

Politics

L climbs to 3.0% as M hits seven-year low

Two black outdoor public-warning horns mounted on a metal pole against trees and sky.

News

More Jönköping communities get Hesa Fredrik warning sirens

A complete prefilled syringe labelled AJOVY 225 mg rests on a neutral surface.

News

No Swedish region meets migraine specialist-care benchmark

An estradiol transdermal medicine box beside a transparent skin patch and a coin for scale.

News

Sweden raises oestrogen patch prices as supply stays uncertain

A metal security chain fastened across a closed wooden door.

News

Police warn home-entry scam targeting older people is moving north

Four photographs show blue rainwear, non-stick frying pans, a foam fire extinguisher and cosmetics.

News

New chemical rules reach furniture, clothes and food packaging

Children and a coach gather with footballs around two small goals on a Swedish grass pitch.

News

Sweden extends Fritidskort benefit to all six-year-olds

Water flowing from a red-handled outdoor tap beside green vegetation in Sweden.

News

Private wells face shortages as Västmanland groundwater stays low

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 on the runway at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

Making It

Ryanair signs collective agreement for Arlanda cabin crew

Dense dry grass beside a shaded road edge in Lahälla, Sweden.

News

Fire risk stays high to extreme in parts of 10 counties

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

Sweden Explained

School closures may reach 79 municipalities as child numbers fall

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

Politics

S wants 10% cap on adults’ dental treatment bills

Editorial illustration of an older figure separated from a familiar home by a narrow translucent barrier.

News

Sweden examines Brexit residence process after elderly Britons face removal

Editorial illustration of sealed material samples stopped before a toxicology testing station by a red barrier.

News

SSAB rejects toxicology tests after 34 illness reports

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson speaks at an Almedalen lectern.

Politics

Andersson says voters assumed she would be prime minister

A woman uses a telephone headset at an office desk.

Politics

L wants bans on SMS loans and telephone sales

Ebba Busch speaks in a white outfit during Almedalen Week in Visby in June 2026.

Politics

Ebba Busch U-turn: Won’t Accept Magdalena Andersson as Prime Minister

The E20 crosses the Göta canal beside a blue canal sign in Mariestad municipality.

News

First new E20 section past Mariestad opens Friday

A green Uppsala city bus carries passengers past Stora torget.

News

200 Uppsala children still lack school bus cards

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

Belonging

Over-70 banking rule was age discrimination, DO says

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

News

Sweden urges early renewals as 2.4 million passports expire

A worker operates an electric jackhammer on broken asphalt in Lysekil.

Life Here

8 in 10 inspected workplaces failed vibration-safety checks

Magdalena Andersson speaks at a Social Democratic lectern during Almedalen Week in June 2025.

Politics

Social Democrats plunge 4.3 points as poll lead crumbles

Visitors at the Moderates' public political tent during Almedalen Week in June 2023.

Politics

Billionaire Roger Akelius abandons Moderates over ‘cruel’ deportations

Ulf Kristersson speaks at a Moderate Party event during Almedalen Week in July 2019.

Politics

M wants unemployment benefits to fall faster

Editorial illustration of funded job-support booths, with some routes looping into false attendance or ending at a barrier.

News

33 job-coach offices agreed to restrict wives' work

Ulf Kristersson speaks before a public audience at a Moderate Party event in Almedalen in June 2023.

News

Moderates would tie welfare and citizenship to a ‘Sweden contract’ in election manifesto

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar speaking at Järvaveckan in 2022.

Politics

V wants most workers on 80% unemployment benefit

The Riksdag complex and illuminated public archway in central Stockholm at dusk.

News

Sweden proposes 160-day tax threshold for people living abroad

Editorial illustration of one source feeding a large network of anonymous accounts split into opposing red and blue streams.

News

State-backed AI network used 1,200 accounts to target Sweden

A clinician administers a vaccination into an adult’s upper arm.

Life Here

Västra Götaland makes pneumococcal vaccine free from age 65

Magdalena Andersson outside Stockholm City Hall in April 2020.

News

Andersson says Centre Party will be needed to form government

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

News

Sweden's food VAT cut lowered grocery prices by 5.5%

Student housing buildings at Karolinska Institutet in Solna.

Politics

S promises 10,000 student homes in youth-cost package

Editorial illustration of a judgment leading directly to a compensation envelope and application folder.

News

Sweden shortens crime victims’ route to compensation

A Swedish asylum-rights banner above a Red Cross Youth lectern at a 2013 Stockholm demonstration.

News

At least 121 young people were ordered to leave Sweden alone

Social Democratic justice policy spokesperson Teresa Carvalho in a red blazer in a 2022 portrait.

Politics

Social Democrats promise ‘mafia law’ in seven-part crime plan

French FDI frigate Amiral Ronarc'h docked in New York in April 2026.

News

Sweden buys four French frigates for 47 billion SEK

Gunnar Strömmer at Sergels torg in Stockholm during election campaigning in September 2018.

Politics

M wants 30-day bans for threatening behaviour on streets

A heat-pump unit and building materials behind fencing outside a terraced home under renovation.

News

Small-house owners can apply for up to SEK 60,000 in energy grants

Romina Pourmokhtari speaking at the Liberal Party national conference in 2023.

Politics

Pourmokhtari wants 12-month permits for green factories

Editorial illustration contrasting many linked clinic records with only a few continuous care links.

News

Sweden registers 66% with a fixed doctor. Only 31% experience one

White nicotine pouches in an open container.

Sweden Explained

Surveyed snus users report less littering, but pouch counts stay flat

An open wooden historical medicine box with glass bottles and a key in its front lock.

News

Parents urged to lock medicines as teen self-harm rises

Editorial illustration of cramped beds, failed privacy, locked complaint papers and an inaccessible doorway.

News

Report finds serious rights gaps at Sweden’s migration centres

Editorial illustration of varied paper fragments inside one translucent review frame.

News

Sweden launches review of religious-conversion asylum cases

Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson speaks at Almedalen Week in July 2019.

Politics

M wants detention when violence risk is clear

Ballot boxes and voting booths at an Icelandic advance-voting site.

News

Iceland rejects reopening EU accession talks

The courtyard facade of the Swedish Institute at Hôtel de Marle in Paris.

Making It

Three funded overseas residencies open to Sweden-based artists

Social Democratic economic-policy spokesperson Mikael Damberg speaks at Almedalen Week in June 2026.

Politics

S bank tax splits parties over mortgage costs

Editorial illustration of a cargo ship bridge sightline blocked by deck machinery.

News

Pilot flagged poor ship visibility before fatal Tjörn collision

A Swedish soldier in field uniform sits on a military vehicle beside a Swedish flag.

News

Sweden reviews Afghan former staff for possible protection after 12 years

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

Politics

Åkesson asks if a KD vote could make Andersson PM

News

Polls close in Iceland's vote on reopening EU talks

Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer wears glasses and a grey checked jacket in a January 2023 portrait.

News

Sweden investigates chemical castration as a release condition

Charred trees and fire-damaged ground in Tyresta National Park after the 1999 wildfire.

News

SMHI extends high forest-fire risk through Wednesday

People use sewing machines to repair clothes and textiles at a community Repair Cafe.

Politics

MP wants 20% recycled textiles and cheaper repairs

A cardiotocography printout recording fetal heart rate and contractions during labour.

News

Baby died after missed monitoring in an overloaded Swedish maternity ward

The Swedish Parliament chamber with blue seats, central lecterns and Swedish and EU flags.

News

Sweden widens criminal deportation rules from 1 September

Instagram Story screenshot from Zara Larsson showing the singer backstage with Swedish text urging followers to vote left in the autumn election.

Politics

Zara Larsson tells followers to vote left in Sweden’s election

Two adults work together at a computer during a Swedish-language workshop in November 2012.

Politics

Social Democrats pledge in-person SFI and welfare language tests

Fire-damaged forest beside road U668 in Västmanland in September 2014.

News

SMHI warns of high fire risk across 10 counties

Editorial illustration of two economic model paths ending at different levels inside uncertainty bands.

News

Swedish model projects 1.5-point unemployment rise under higher asylum migration

The new underground platform hall at Gothenburg Central during Västlänken construction in September 2025.

Transport

Gothenburg’s Västlänken carries its first passenger train

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson speaks with a sign language interpreter at Almedalen Week in June 2025.

Politics

S wants to bar insurance priority at publicly funded clinics

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar speaks into a headset microphone at Almedalen Week in June 2026.

Politics

Left Party vows to vote against any government that excludes it

A blower-door test fan and measuring instruments installed in a building doorway.

News

Sweden changes building energy declarations from 1 October

News

Norway’s King Harald V dies at 89 as Haakon takes throne

Three Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen aircraft fly in formation over Helsinki in June 2017.

News

Sweden sends Gripen jets and warships to patrol Finland

A voter presents voting materials to election workers at a Swedish polling place in September 2022.

News

Record 145,000-plus vote on Sweden's first early-voting day

A Swedish Customs vehicle parked at a Stockholm passenger terminal.

Life Here

Expanded debt seizures reach nearly SEK 1.5m in two months

A winter view of Statistics Sweden's office on Åkullegatan in Örebro.

News

Sweden's employment rate rises as joblessness falls for seventh month

Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson speaks to news media outside the Ministry of Finance in March 2023.

Politics

Government forecasts SEK 50bn for post-election reforms

A colour laboratory micrograph shows a single measles virus particle.

News

Measles cases hit 35 as secondary infections double

Rosenbad, the seat of Sweden's Government, beside the water in central Stockholm.

Politics

Sweden proposes 12-month powers for future pandemic limits

Editorial illustration of blank health-record files between a broken system route and a continuing hospital route.

News

Swedish region pays SEK 657m to exit failed health-record system

Cyclists ride across Strömbron in central Stockholm in May 2026.

Politics

MP wants SEK 6bn restored for greener city travel

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

Life Here

Variable mortgage rates dip to 2.74% as fixed loans stay higher

A long white corridor inside Sparta student housing in Lund.

Making It

Nine in ten students study where housing falls short at term start

A Swedish Police mobile surveillance mast fitted with multiple cameras.

News

Police surveillance without concrete suspicion rises 48% in Sweden

News

Rail stoppage disrupts routes across Sweden

A close view of an expansion joint spanning the Øresund Bridge roadway.

News

Øresund Bridge road traffic restricted for eight weeks

The Skatteverket name and symbol outside the agency’s Kronan office in Sundbyberg.

News

Birth registration will not routinely trigger Swedish police reports

Multiple Swedish party ballots sit in racks inside an empty ballot-selection stand.

Politics

Tidö cuts opposition poll lead to 4.7 points

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson stands at an Almedalen Week lectern in June 2025.

Politics

Social Democrats want 12-child cap for youngest preschool groups

A hand places a ballot envelope into a sealed ballot box at a Swedish polling station.

Politics

Early voting opens across Sweden with 1,875 locations

A sealed MMR vaccine kit contains a vial, pre-filled syringe and two capped needles.

Life Here

Stockholm plans free measles vaccine for adults born since 1960

A hand holds a smartphone displaying a Swedish SE-Alert warning message.

News

Sweden will test SE-Alert warning system on 7 September

A customs officer holds a large clear bag filled with seized white tablets.

News

Illegal erectile drugs remain easy to buy online in Sweden

Editorial illustration of unemployment payments shrinking across three calendar stages.

News

Some Swedish unemployment payments fall to 35% of former income

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

News

Sweden’s national theatre broke discrimination ban over wheelchair tickets

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

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