Europe Sweden The country, whose application for NATO membership is currently blocked, is ready to host temporary NATO bases on its territory even before becoming a full member, said Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson
Europe Sweden The country was the first to register sex as a sport and is now set to host the first European Sex Championship to be held today 8 June, organised by the Swedish Sex Federation and open to all European countries
Europe Sweden Swedish Foreign Minister Billstrom said the country still hopes to become a member of NATO by the alliance's July summit in Vilnius, hoping that the objections of Turkey and Hungary will be overturned
Europe Sweden Over 35.000 summer job positions, also open to international applicants, are still to be filled according to the Public Employment Service
Europe Sweden Sweden's membership of the European Union must be 'reviewed', as was stated by the influential Eurosceptic leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Åkesson
Europe Sweden In just a few days, 12-year-old Murhaf Hamid succeeded in raising more than 3 million crowns for a charity after being the target of hateful and openly racist comments
Europe Sweden The government has refused to extradite one of its citizens accused of terrorism from Ankara, despite the fact that extradition was one of the things the country promised in order to overcome Turkey's blockade of its NATO candidacy
Europe Sweden The Swedish Tax Agency has been commissioned to conduct a national census to get a better picture of who is staying illegally, said the Minister of Finance and leader of the far-right Sweden Democrat party
Europe Sweden A nearly century-old regulation, originally applied to agricultural vehicles, allows teenagers aged 15 and over to drive without a proper licence, provided the vehicle has been modified to have a maximum speed of 30 km/h
Europe Sweden Meat consumers who care about the environment should choose Swedish meat, said Agriculture Minister Peter Kullgren, while Swedish experts believe the problem with meat lies elsewhere
Europe Sweden Immigration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard has announced that the country will review ways to increase voluntary return migration; opposition believes this is yet another demonstration of the extreme right's influence on the government
Europe Sweden Stockholm police rejected, for the second time in a row, a request to burn a Koran outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, as the protest could lead to an increased terrorist threat in Sweden
Europe Sweden Terrorist threats against Sweden have increased, the Swedish Security Service warned in a press release, citing the Koran burning outside the Turkish embassy in February as one of the main reasons