The Swedish government and Sweden Democrats are pushing forward with plans to tighten the requirements for family reunion, by ...

The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes) runs an annual competition for the best 'pepparkakshus' or ...

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An important but hardly-known international agreement signed by 29 European countries has established common principles for ...

The Moderate Party's youth wing has called for a law removing the right of asylum seekers to "change track" and apply for a ...

Sweden's government has finalised the text of a new law which will see the minimum eligible salary for a work permit hiked to ...

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Sweden has become slightly more equal over the past decade, with the income gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 50 ...

Former Stockholm basketball coach Eric Nsubuga, 22, tells The Local of his deportation to Uganda, a country he has not been ...

The Church of Sweden has formally rejected a government inquiry's proposal that would see more than 100,000 people stripped ...

It's mid-December and in Sweden that means Lucia: groups of white-robed people singing with candles on their heads. But what ...