Swedes are maintaining their opposition to adopt the euro. If there was a national vote today, 77 percent would vote against adopting the currency, a new study by SCB reveals. Men are somewhat more positive to adopting the euro, at … Read More

An investigation by newspaper Dagens Nyheter shows that Swedish pupils who do well in the national test have done badly in the international Pisa study. This may soften the blow landed on Sweden’s education system by the Pisa results, which … Read More

Sweden was criticised by the Council of Europe for not doing enough to combat trafficking, where people are forced to work or commit crimes against their will. In a report presented Tuesday, the organisation said Sweden should have an action plan … Read More

Sweden is set to overtake Denmark by the end of the year to become the Nordics leading wind power nation, with a capacity of some 5,369 megawatts. Denmark has long been recognized as a leader in wind power in the … Read More

Sweden’s environment minister has sued the European commission for dragging its feet on banning substances that disrupt hormones. “The Commission stops and stalls the work to phase out endocrine disruptors. It’s extremely serious,” Environment Minister Lena Ek told the Dagens … Read More

Almost 80 percent of people of working age in Sweden were employed in 2013, the highest rate in the EU, a new labour market study revealed today. The Eurostat study showed that 79.8 percent of Swedes between the ages of … Read More

More and more young people are getting strokes. Since the mid-1990s the number of men getting strokes has increased by 18 percent. For women in the same age group, it has increased by 16 percent, according to Sweden’s Public Health … Read More

Swedish passports are becoming “hard currency” on the black market, and over the last two years 177,000 valid Swedish passports in total were reported missing, local media reported on Saturday. Citizens of Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom holds the … Read More

Swedish energy giant Vattenfall has announced that it has given up its research on CO2 capture and storage, intended to make the company’s coal power plants greener. “Vattenfall will discontinue its R&D (research and development) activities regarding coal power with … Read More

A study of over 2 million Swedes has found that environmental factors are equally as important as genes in determining whether a child will be born with autism. Researchers were surprised to discover that the inheritability of the neurodevelopmental disorder … Read More

Sweden receives more quota refugees than any other EU country, taking in more than a third of all other member states. The UN refugee agency UNHCR says Sweden accepted 1,900 quota refugees last year. Finland and Great Britain tied for … Read More

Almost one in three Swedes support joining Nato, compared with just 17 percent in 2013, a survey revealed on Tuesday. The sentiment was echoed by the Finnish Prime Minister.   A study by the Som Institute at Gothenburg University showed … Read More