Half of Swedes won’t vote in Euro elections
In a recent poll, more than half of Swedes claim they will not vote in the upcoming elections for the European Parliament. The numbers were fairly equ...
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Suburban Stockholm gets an erotic garden
Swedish erotica aficionado, Jorma Toivonen, has long held the dream of opening a sex museum in Stockholm but municipal councils have other views. Clai...
Pirate Bay Four found guilty
A Swedish court handed the four men from The Pirate Bay a guilty verdict for being accessories to copyright infringement on Friday. The ruling in the ...
Sweden to get Europe’s biggest wind farm?
Plans have been set in motion for Europe’s largest wind farm to be built in Sweden after approval was given by the Norrbotten county administrative bo...
Swedish strippers dodging taxman
Swedish tax authorities are entering the virtual world of the Internet to hunt down webcam strippers whom they accuse of dodging taxes. These work-at-...
Half a million Swedes unemployed by 2010
A new forecast by Sweden’s National Public Employment Agency predicts that more than 500,000 Swedes will be unemployed by 2010. The agency expects the...
Legal downloads skyrocket in Sweden after new law
Sales of music through the Internet and mobile phones in Sweden have increased by an unprecedented 100 percent in the few days since the new Swedish a...
Swedish parishioners create giant Lego Jesus
The celebration of Easter took on a more youthful look this year at one church in Sweden that built a giant statue of Jesus out of Lego blocks. The im...