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Swedish c.bank raises policy rate, more needed to tame inflation
Sweden's central bank raised its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Thursday to 2.5% and signalled further hikes next year to fight surging inflation. → Read More
Swedish Moderates make coalition deal, anti-immigration party to back new govt
The leader of Sweden's Moderates, Ulf Kristersson, said on Friday he aimed to form a three-party minority government with support from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats after the right-wing bloc won a majority in last month's election. → Read More
Bernanke, Diamond, Dybvig win Nobel economics prize for financial crises studies
A trio of U.S. economists including Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke won this year's Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for research on how propping up failing banks can stave off an even deeper economic crisis. → Read More
French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature
French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for "the courage and clinical acuity" in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality. → Read More
Swedish right prepares for power as PM accepts election defeat
The head of Sweden's Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, said on Wednesday he would begin the work of forming a new government after Prime Minster Magdalena Andersson conceded her Social Democrats had lost the weekend's general election. → Read More
Sweden Democrat surge a chance and a challenge for right-wing PM hopeful
Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson's big bet that a deal with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats would make him prime minister looks likely to pay off, but squabbling allies, policy divisions and a cost-of-living crisis could make his tenure turbulent. → Read More
Swedes head to polls in close-run election marked by crime, energy crisis
Swedes vote on Sunday in an election pitting the incumbent centre-left Social Democrats against a right-wing bloc that has embraced the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats in a bid to win back power after eight years in opposition. → Read More
Analysis: Sweden's cost of living crisis spooks voters ahead of election
With its robust welfare provisions and green energy mix, wealthy Sweden should be better placed than most countries in Europe to withstand the energy-driven cost of living crisis battering the continent. → Read More
Analysis: Gang crime looms over election in Sweden as shootings spread
In the span of eight days in May, three young men were shot dead in a small neighborhood of the town of Orebro, part of a wave of gang violence spreading from big cities to small-town Sweden that is topping voters' concerns ahead of elections next month. → Read More
Swedish court sentences ex-Iranian official to life for torture, executions
A Swedish court sentenced a former Iranian official to life in prison on Thursday for his part in the mass execution and torture of political prisoners in the 1980s. → Read More
Sweden's Kurds fear they may pay price for NATO bid as Turkey fumes
Kurds in Sweden's large diaspora are worried they will become a pawn in the negotiations over Stockholm's ambition to join NATO if the West makes concessions to win Turkish support. → Read More
EU in talks for common purchase of vaccine, antiviral against monkeypox
The European Union is working on a common purchasing agreement for vaccines and antiviralsagainst monkeypox, as cases of the viral disease usually endemic to Africa gather steam in Europe and beyond. → Read More
Sweden's ruling party poised to back NATO bid
Sweden's ruling Social Democrats were poised on Sunday to come out in favour of the country joining NATO, paving the way for an application soon after and abandoning decades of military non-alignment in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. → Read More
Sweden sets out benefits of NATO as membership bid looms
Swedish membership of NATO would boost national security and help to stabilise the Nordic and Baltic regions, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Friday, a day after neighbour Finland said it would seek to join the U.S.-led alliance without delay. → Read More
Finland to make decision on NATO entry in coming weeks, not months
Finland will take a decision about whether to apply to join the U.S.-led NATO alliance in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Wednesday, underlining a shift in security perspectives since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. → Read More
Why Putin faces "more NATO" in the Arctic after Ukraine invasion
The sound of gunfire echoed around the Norwegian fjords as a row of Swedish and Finnish soldiers, positioned prone behind banks of snow, trained rifles and missile launchers on nearby hills ready for an enemy attack. → Read More
Sweden's first female premier returns days after quitting
Sweden's first female prime minister Magdalena Andersson was reappointed on Monday days after she quit amid political turmoil and jostling ahead of elections. → Read More
New Swedish PM resigns on first day after coalition collapses
Sweden's first female prime minister resigned on Wednesday after less than 12 hours in the top job after the Green Party quit her coalition, plunging the country into political uncertainty. → Read More
Swedish parliament votes on new PM on Wednesday, uncertainty high
Sweden's parliament will vote on Wednesday on approving Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson as the country's first woman prime minister, the Riksdag speaker said on Monday, amid uncertainty over whether she can cobble together enough support. → Read More
How green champion Sweden could end up exporting its carbon sins
When a Swedish court ordered the country's biggest cement maker to stop mining limestone by its huge factory on the windswept island of Gotland to prevent pollution, ecologists cheered. → Read More