Europe Sweden An awareness campaign to discourage immigrants from coming to Sweden will be launched, with targeted communications to foreign newsrooms and press agencies, as well as foreign embassies in the country
Europe Sweden After the leader of the far-right Stram Kurs party, Rasmus Paludan, burned the Koran right in front of the Turkish embassy, strong dissent came from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Europe Sweden Prime Minister Kristersson has warned his compatriots against falling prey to Moscow's propaganda, after Russian media spread false reports that his country was planning to allow NATO to deploy nuclear weapons on its territory in peacetime
Europe Sweden The Swedish ambassador to the EU has stated that there will be no pact on migration during Sweden's six-month presidency of the EU Council
Europe Sweden Sweden will become a member of NATO by the end of 2023, together with Finland, according to what NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Brussels in an interview
Europe Sweden The country will suspend testing of hydropower plants to avoid strains on the national power grid and blackouts, allowing for a review of what the power grid can withstand and the possibility of storing energy through hydropower
Europe Sweden Self-driving trucks have started to hit the roads in the country, with other companies besides Swedish truck manufacturer Scania looking to launch new self-driving trucks
Europe Sweden Home-price decline accelerated in October falling by 3%, the most severe housing slump in thirty years; data from Valueguard shows declines are largest for detached houses due to rising power costs
Europe Sweden Energy giant Uniper will not build any power plants in Sweden, contradicting plans by its Swedish subsidiary Barsebäck Kraft to build a clean energy park
Europe Sweden The new Swedish government will distance itself from the Kurdish YPG militia as it seeks Turkey's approval to join NATO, Sweden's foreign minister told Swedish Radio on Saturday
Europe Sweden A group of independent experts established by the United Nations Human Rights Council to examine violations of the rights of Africans and persons of African descent by law enforcement agencies will visit Sweden from 31 October to 4 November 2022
Europe Sweden Three Swedish centre-right parties have agreed to form a coalition government with the support of the Sweden Democrats, a once radical far-right group that has moved towards the mainstream but maintains a hard line on immigration
Europe Sweden Svante Pääbo is awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and his studies DNA on human evolution