Europe Sweden Muslim migrant families have protested against the state social services for unfairly taking their children from their homes; many claim there are different criteria for the children of Muslim migrants and those of Swedes
Europe Sweden The country is trialling a system to improve its emergency response services; it features drones delivering defibrillators, with drone developer Everdrone collaborating with researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm from 2019
Europe Sweden Police are looking for 10.000 migrants with deportation orders, according to a report by the public broadcaster Sveriges Television; according to the head of the national border police the problem is that there are no detention centres for deportations
Europe Sweden With Finland and Norway, the country will cull part of the wolf population to control their diffusion; as the hunters have already killed most of their annual target of 27 wolves, several conservation groups have appealed to the EU to take action
Europe Sweden Ikea to rise its prices by an average 9% due to ongoing raw materials price peaks as well as supply chain and transportation disruptions
Europe Sweden National producer price index rose in November at the fastest annual rate in 30 years, up 18,1% year-on-year, according to Statistics Sweden
Europe Sweden In the South of the country, a reporter filmed a 'mountain of plastic' of Icelandic origin that was never recycled – although consumers and companies in Iceland had paid for it to be so and it probably dates back to 2016
Europe Sweden Lawmakers elected the country's first female Prime Minister for a second time; Magdalena Andersson, who resigned on the same day as the election due to the defeat of the budget proposal, will now form a minority government
Europe Sweden The directors general of the Financial Supervisory Authority and the Environmental Protection Agency called on both the EU and the government to ban cryptocurrency mining, as the cheap electricity is needed for other, more useful purposes
Europe Sweden A new draft law on legal gender change, presented by the Swedish Ministry of Social Affairs, will allow children from the age of twelve to apply for a new legal gender in the national population register, thus lowering the age for applying
Europe Sweden There are at least 38.000 genitally mutilated girls and women living in Sweden, according to an estimate by the National Board of Health and Welfare, sounding the alarm about the dangerous lack of knowledge within the health sector about this problem
Europe Sweden Sweden's national education agency has recommended that teachers should make students prove that the Holocaust never happened, as part of a push to help them understand conspiracy theories; there have been major protests from Jewish and non-Jewish groups
Europe Sweden Swedish inflation hit its highest level in 13 years in September as rising electricity costs are testing the central bank for price increases that exceed its target