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
Europe Sweden AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, born on Oct 3 1981, has been recalled to his national team for the upcoming World Cup qualifying matches, making it an international return at the age of 40
Europe Sweden Three convicted drug dealers will have over €1,3 million worth of Bitcoin returned by the Swedish government after a legal misstep saw prosecutors value the proceeds of their crime in Krona and not in crypto
Europe Sweden Only a minority of Swedes with alcohol use disorder are prescribed medication and access to the supply is uneven across different groups in society, according to a study by Sweden's Karolinska Institutet recently published
Europe Sweden ABBA has unveiled its 'Voyage' project, marking the band's comeback after almost 40 years: two new songs will be released soon, an album in November and a mixed live and digital concert in a purpose-built arena in spring 2022