Reinfeldt hails EU budget deal as 'good for Sweden'
Local Sweden News
Sweden will see its EU membership fee drop by half a billion kronor ($77 million) as part of a new long term budget agreement forged in Brussels on Friday.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Swedish shops to churn horsemeat into biogas
Local Sweden News
Horsemeat-hit Swedish supermarket chain Ica has recalled so many ready-made meals that its overstuffed warehouse in southern Sweden has started sending excess food to be recycled into biogas.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Minister slams ID checks based on skin colour
Local Sweden News
Sweden's integration minister, Erik Ullenhag, has slammed as "unacceptable" reports that police in Stockholm are stopping people based on the colour of their skin and forcing them to show their IDs.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Gay Ugandan couple to remain in Sweden
Local Sweden News
A couple who claimed to be the first Ugandan men to be legally married have learned they will be allowed to remain in Sweden after a flurry of death threats helped sway migration officials to drop a deportation order against one of them.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Stockholm police end 'racial profiling' push
Local Sweden News
Swedish police announced on Friday that officers would no longer be asking public transport users for identification, after their past efforts to deport undocumented migrants were branded as racial profiling.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Embracing Sweden's 'ridiculous' sports
Local Sweden News
With the playoffs underway for Sweden's top ice hockey league, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly explains how his time in Sweden's far north has changed his views about some of the country's stranger sports.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
First payments to abused Swedish foster kids
Local Sweden News
Swedes who suffered physical and sexual abuse as foster children between 1920 and 1980 have begun receiving 250,000 kronor ($39,000) in compensation from the state.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Swedish wolf hunt 'an abuse of science': expert
Local Sweden News
The Swedish wolf hunt has no effect on factors such as inbreeding nor any other basis in science according to a prominent French researcher, whose claims are disputed by Swedish colleagues.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English