Women in Sweden face a 37-year wait for equal income as progress stalls
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The incomes of men and women are not expected to level out in Sweden until 2063, but some regions may have to wait longer โ 131 years in the most extreme case.
Variable mortgage rates held steady in Sweden in May, while some longer-term fixed rates dipped slightly, a new roundup reveals.
This year, Sweden's National Day is also the day when tough new citizenship rules come into effect, even on applicants who applied years ago under different rules. The Local asked our readers how they're feeling about the day.
Several EU countries, including Sweden, are protesting that hundreds of thousands of Russian tourists are allowed to travel to Europe every year, and yesterday the issue was discussed at an EU ministerial meeting. โWe want to put a stop to Russian tourists coming to Europe for beach parties and shopping weekends while Ukrainians are dying on the battlefield,โ says Sweden's Migration Minister Johan Forssell, who has taken the initiative for the protest. Sweden and several other countries currently issue very few, or almost no, visas to Russian citizens. At the same time, several Southern European countries, including France, Italy and Spain, grant significantly more visas.
Swedish Radio's investigative programme Kaliber has discovered that a man accused of torture, rape and killing of prison inmates during the former Syrian regime is walking free in Damascus. He's currently awaiting a decision from the Swedish Migration Board on a residency permit in Sweden. Following Kaliber's revelations, the Syrian authorities are currently looking for the man.
Swedish national day is celebrated on June 6th, which lands on a Saturday this year. Local municipalities hold events to welcome new Swedish citizens, so if you're in a celebratory mood this year, where are the best events to attend?
The Social Democrats, Left Party, and the Green Party would get their own majority if there were an election today, meaning they would not even need support of the economically liberal Centre Party, according to a new poll.
He speaks seven languages and has set up an international community of language enthusiasts in the Swedish capital. Meeting up once a fortnight, Stockholm Polyglots, was created by Swede Jonatan Haile and he wants to inspire people to learn new languages. He tells Radio Sweden how music and social interaction can help you learn a language.
Thirteen Left Party candidates will be removed from municipal election lists following revelations by newspaper Expressen about the candidatesโ praise of terrorism. Left Party candidates in Helsingborg celebrated Hamasโs attack on Israel in 2023 on the very day the attack was carried out. The candidates concerned were on election lists in the municipalities of รrebro, Sรคvsjรถ, Eksjรถ, Vรคxjรถ, Landskrona, Halmstad and Helsingborg, party secretary Maria Forsberg told Swedish Television.
More needs to be done if Sweden is to hit its 2030 climate targets, but the parties canโt agree on how to cut emissions from transport. A survey by Swedish Radio News has found that the eight parties in parliament divide into different groups, where the Green and the Left parties want to combine electrification with more public transport and more investment in rail, while several other parties mainly focus on electric cars. The Sweden Democrats stand out in that they are the only ones that do not propose any new subsidy for people wanting to buy electric cars.
Women in Sweden are generally more satisfied with their sex lives than men in comparable age-brackets. That's according to a new survey by the Public Health Agency of Sweden in which nearly 16,000 people aged between 16 and 84 were asked about sexual health and reproductive rights. However, the survey also points to continued challenges when it comes to women experiencing unwanted sexual attention and sexual violence.
The difference in pension between those born abroad and those born in Sweden has increased significantly in recent decades, according to a new report by insurance provider Folksam. For people born in 1957 abroad, the difference amounts to almost SEK 5,700 in their pension as a whole per month before tax compared to those born in Sweden. For people born in 1937, the corresponding difference was only SEK 650 per month. Listen to one of the representatives from the insurance company behind the report and the head of Sweden's pensions agency to hear what's driving the pensions gap.
Sweden's National Day is celebrated on June 6th, which this year is also the day when new, much stricter, rules for Swedish citizenship will come into effect โ even on pending applications. So we want to know: do you feel differently about the day this year?
Ahead of Sweden's next big round of collective bargaining, several employer groups in Swedish industry say the economy is developing worse than previously expected. They have cut their growth forecast for this year, from about 3 to just over 2 per cent, and say there is no space for wage increases similar to the last two rounds of collective bargaining, when union wage demands rose to just over 4 per cent. Industry employers organisations Teknikfรถretagen and Industriarbetsgivarna speak about economic uncertainty, while trade unions in the industry sector have no plans to lower their wage demands.
A man was shot dead by police outside Nynรคshamn, south of Stockholm, during a car chase on Tuesday evening. Police was called out just after 8pm about a suspected kidnapping and attempted murder and the suspect was located in a car on the motorway. After the car had crashed into the motorway barrier, one of the police officers opened fire at the man, who was killed.
An MP with several high-profile roles within the Sweden Democrat Party is being investigated for child pornography offences, reports Swedish Radio News. During a search of the politicianโs home, police seized several electronic devices, which are now being analysed, reports Swedish Television News. The Sweden Democrats tell SVT that the person has left all assignments for the party.
The government and the Sweden Democrats have agreed to a solution they say will stop future teen deportations. Migration Minister Johan Forssell told a press conference on Monday it was a good, reasonable and fair proposal that would last a long time. However the opposition parties are critical of the proposal, and of the time it's taken to be presented.
The Jรคrvaveckan political event ended over the weekend and representatives of all parties in parliament have now held their speeches. The Moderate Party representative spoke about the right to own your own flat and the Sweden Democrats spoke about freedom from violence, crime and too much meddling by the state. The leader of the Liberal Party promised a 'culture day' for school children in socio-economically vulnerable areas, to go visit a theater for example, while the Center Party leader in her speech focused on overcrowding and the housing shortage.
The children of GES, the trio behind Sweden's best loved World Cup football anthem, "Nรคr Vi Grรคver Guld i USA", have made a new version of their fathers' 1994 hit song to mark Sweden's return to American soil for the 2026 World Cup later this month. Thirty-two years ago, "Nรคr Vi Grรคver Guld i USA" or, "When We Dig For Gold in the USA", provided a popular backdrop to Sweden's best ever World Cup on foreign soil, when they finished third. Listen to Julia Glenmark, Kid Eriksson and Simon Strรถmstedt talk to Radio Sweden about the reworked anthem and why their fathers' original is still so popular today.
Several men from militia groups loyal to Syria's former dictator Bashar al-Assad are currently living in Sweden, according to Swedish Radio's investigative programme Kaliber. They have been identified with the help of Swedish police investigations, social media and testimonies from the militias' victims. One man, who lives in a small town in Sweden, is known in Damascus as a dangerous leader of the militia. He is accused of kidnapping people and demanding money from their families. When contacted by Kaliber, he denies the allegations.