Sweden and Denmark going postal together
In one of the more unusual mergers of the year, the national postal services of Sweden and Denmark have signed an agreement to combine their two agenc...
Sweden promises to preserve its minority languages
Since 2000, the Swedish government has given special national minority status to the languages of its ethnic minority groups. These include Finnish, T...
Swedish ships heading to fight pirates off Somalia
Sweden is set to send three of its naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden to help in the international effort to fight the scourge of piracy that has engul...
Sweden set to legalise same-sex marriage by May
Sweden is edging closer towards officially approving gay marriage now that three of the four parties in the ruling government coalition have joined fo...
Ericsson to lay off 5,000 despite posting profit
Despite the fact that it posted a surprisingly strong profit in the fourth quarter of 2008, Sweden’s telecom company Ericsson announced it was plannin...
Child pornography in Swedish national library
The relaxed and tolerant policies of the Swedish government towards pornography occasionally create embarrassments for the nation, as in the latest di...
4G broadband coming to Stockholm
A newly signed deal between Ericsson and TeliaSonera means Stockholm’s mobile broadband users will soon be able to surf the Internet using the latest ...
Swedish greens angry over proposed beach laws
The Swedish government has proposed a bill making it easier to develop isolated beaches while tightening the rules on already overdeveloped coastal ar...