Billionaires weigh in as Sweden goes to the polls
This week: Joy for Liberals as support swells, Sweden Democrats and Left Party hit by scandals, immigration in focus in TV debate, billionaires duel over which side to back, and poor school results throw a spanner in the works.
Two of Sweden’s wealthiest people, Jacob Wallenberg and Martin Lorentz…
Sweden's election is over. Now what?
In this week’s Sweden in Focus Extra our panelists try to make sense of a dizzying election night.
Sweden’s election threw up some major surprises on Sunday night.
The Liberals cleared the parliamentary threshold by a respectable margin having languished way beneath the four percent limit ever sinc…
Did immigrants really swing Sweden's election?
This week: Final election results, far right blames immigrants for loss, and what the election outcome means for foreigners in Sweden.
200,000 foreigners who have become Swedish citizens are to blame for Sweden’s tiny swing to the left – and in particular for the losses suffered by the Sweden Dem…
'The Migration Agency told me I'd likely be denied re-entry into Sweden'
In this week’s Sweden in Focus Extra, The Local's Mandy Pipher tells us about the bureaucratic nightmare surrounding her recent trip to Canada.
Living in Sweden on a residence permit can be a risky business, not least given that almost everyone who does so has strong connections to another country…
How bad is Sweden's Left Party voting scandal?
In this week's podcast: Electoral fraud allegations, complex coalition building, Candy Crush maker faces strike action, and how do Swedes say 'Digestive biscuit'?
Negotiations between the centre-left parties are ongoing after they won a wafer thin majority in last week’s election.
But now a voter f…
‘Disturbing’ waiting times irrelevant in key Swedish citizenship ruling
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Sweden's government tightened rules for citizenship earlier this year without transitional rules for people who had already applied. The new rules require eight years of residency instead of five for most applic…
Who’ll yield first in Sweden’s political chicken race?
Magdalena Andersson was acclaimed as the winner of Sweden’s election. Four parties – adding up to a majority – said they wanted her to be prime minister, and she was charged by the speaker with forming a government. Yet on Monday she threw in the towel.
The immediate pretext was the decision by the…
What do foreigners in Sweden miss from home?
This week: Tortuous efforts to form a government, plans to stop teen deportations, how new rules on family reunification could make life harder for university researchers, and what do The Local’s readers miss most when living in Sweden?
The four parties that claimed victory in the election are stil…
What's Your Media Job: James Savage on co-founding and stepping back from The Local
The Fix's Anton Protsiuk talks with James Savage, co-founder of The Local, a network of English-language news sites across nine non-English-speaking European countries. They dig into James' two-decade journey building the company through a turbulent era for the media sector — and his recent decisio…
Cops Don’t Realize Woman Is Hiding Kidnapped Victim in Her House
After surveillance footage captures James Savage abducting his girlfriend, police race to find them both. This kidnapping investigation uncovers a man who has been concealing his true identity for nearly forty years.
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