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The Swedish government has announced its latest predictions for what will happen to the economy over the next two years, including unemployment rate, GDP growth, and coronaviru ...

Spring has arrived in almost all of Sweden – but you would be hard pressed to find any signs of it today, after the week got off to a snowy start. ...

Sweden has taken one step closer towards its own digital currency – the “e-krona”. ...

Stockholm's health authority hopes to be able to offer the coronavirus vaccine to all adults over the age of 18 by the middle of May, the region's vaccine coordinator said at a ...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is close to renewing his contract with AC Milan, club director Paolo Maldini announced on Saturday. ...

Sweden's former prime minister has enraged the country's neighbours by suggesting in a tweet that if Sweden had been invaded by Nazi Germany, it would have put up more of a fig ...

Paradoxically, the pandemic has left many people better off. But not everyone. ...

Sweden's government has never had a formal strategy for handling the coronavirus pandemic, the country's health minister Lena Hallengren said on Friday, a day before revealing ...

Amazon's long-awaited arrival in Sweden in October was marked by embarrassing translation and currency conversion fails. But what happened next? So far, not much, but experts w ...

It's a high-stakes bidding war via text message. What could possibly go wrong? ...

Europe's stuttering vaccine rollout faced multiple hurdles on Friday as EU regulators said they were reviewing side effects of the Johnson & Johnson shot and France further ...

The pace of Europe's vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 is steadily improving but in some countries more than others. We take a look at how countries in Europe compare in t ...

Lotta Klemming decided to leave a career in fashion to pursue oyster diving, and has never looked back. ...

A two-week-old elephant who was rejected by her family following the birth of another elephant calf has died in Sweden. ...

The Local takes a look at the key proposals in the government's planned overhaul of Swedish migration law and what they mean for you. ...

The Uppsala region has backtracked just a day after introducing new rules for Covid-19 vaccinations. ...

UPDATED: The Uppsala region announced on Thursday that people who had already had Covid-19 would be given a single dose of the vaccine, six months after infection. But the regi ...

Sweden is not the only country where Swedish is spoken as a first language. Here are some words that are unique to the Swedish that's spoken in Finland. ...

The Swedish government has put forward a bill to change the country’s migration laws, including a language requirement for permanent residence. ...

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