An important but hardly-known international agreement signed by 29 European countries has established common principles for ...

The Local's Nordic Editor Richard Orange rounds up the biggest stories of the week in our Inside Sweden newsletter.

The Swedish government and Sweden Democrats are pushing forward with plans to tighten the requirements for family reunion, by ...

How Sweden can get beyond immigrant stereotypes, Indians' relationship with Sweden, Sweden reacts to US talk of ...

The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes) runs an annual competition for the best 'pepparkakshus' or ...

Sick of Last Christmas and All I Want for Christmas is You? We've put together a list of Swedish Christmas songs, including ...

The Moderate Party's youth wing has called for a law removing the right of asylum seekers to "change track" and apply for a ...

Sweden's government has finalised the text of a new law which will see the minimum eligible salary for a work permit hiked to ...

The Church of Sweden has formally rejected a government inquiry's proposal that would see more than 100,000 people stripped ...

Former Stockholm basketball coach Eric Nsubuga, 22, tells The Local of his deportation to Uganda, a country he has not been ...

It's mid-December and in Sweden that means Lucia: groups of white-robed people singing with candles on their heads. But what ...

Typical items used in Swedish Christmas baking like flour, butter and chocolate have seen major price increases over the past ...