Why this year's Swedish National Day will be bittersweet
In this week's podcast: new citizenship law takes effect, a plan to end Sweden's teen deportations, toddlers who speak better Swedish than you, and Minnesota's Swedish heritage.
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In this week's podcast: new citizenship law takes effect, a plan to end Sweden's teen deportations, toddlers who speak better Swedish than you, and Minnesota's Swedish heritage.
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.
Sweden Democrat MP suspected of child pornography crimes, more eggs recalled for salmonella risk, and around half of Swedes report being satisfied with their sex lives. Here's today's news.
Sweden's government tasked the public health agency last autumn to compile research on how parental screen use affects children. Now the results are in and the recommendations are clear: parents should stay off their phones around their kids.
Syriaโs transitional government says Sweden and other European countries can come to Syria to gather evidence of Assad-era war crimes, Swedish Radio's investigative programme Kaliber reports. Spokesperson Nour al-Din al-Baba says investigators can get access to documents, witnesses and crime scenes, and that security and intelligence archives are largely intact. This comes after Kaliber found that 15 men with alleged ties to the Assad regime are living in Sweden.
A man accused of kidnappings and extortion in Bashar al-Assad's Syria has been working in childcare at a Swedish preschool, according to Swedish Radio's investigative programme Kaliber. He is one of 15 men loyal to the former Syrian dictator who live in Sweden today, that Kaliber has been able to identify with the help of Swedish police files, images on social media as well as witnesses on the ground in Syria. Human rights lawyer Basima Jabry says Sweden must investigate, prosecute or expel such men to protect the public. The man denies the allegations.
The Swedish Public Health Agency has issued advice for parents on how they use their mobile phones around their children. Parents should put away their mobile phone when they are together with their child and introduce screen-free zones in their home that also apply to adults, the agency says. The agency issued the advice on Monday, after a review of the research on how parents' use of digital media affects their children.
Sweden's new best municipality for business has been revealed, and it's the town of Hรถganรคs in southern Sweden.
The Jรคrvaveckan political event in Stockholm has been called off for the rest of Wednesday due to stormy weather. The outdoor event had to be evacuated two times on Wednesday afternoon due to safety concerns. The leaders of Sweden's Liberal Party and Green Party were due to hold speeches there this evening.
The UN climate chief said Wednesday that a record-breaking early heatwave scorching a swathe of western Europe was "a brutal reminder of the spiralling impacts of the climate crisis".
Swedish footballer Alexander Isak is still an injury concern ahead of the World Cup. Isak, who's had little playing time since his April comeback from a broken leg, is with the Sweden squad in Stockholm in a pre-World Cup training camp. At a press conference on Wednesday, the Swedish national side's coach Graham Potter said they've still got time as the World Cup fast approaches.
Dust and viruses blamed for mysterious illnesses at SSAB's Luleรฅ site, Swedish bank cuts fixed and variable mortgage rates, cousin marriage banned from July 1st, and a Malmรถ 'corpse' that triggered a major police operation turns out to be sex doll. Here's the latest news.
The Swedish Food Agency is today issuing new youth guidelines for caffeine consumption, which set the limit at 70mg per day. That's around half a cup of regular coffee, while energy drinks โ popular among young people โ can pack between 80-200mg in one can. According to the Swedish Food Agency, having just one can of energy drink can lead to symptoms like heart palpitations, tremors, nausea, dizziness, anxiety and difficulty sleeping.
This summer the Swedish aviation industry is urging airline passengers to 'put themselves in airplane mode' to avoid the sort of disruptive and drunken behaviour that is becoming increasingly common. Reports to the Swedish Transport Agency of unruly and disruptive behaviour involving flight passengers soared from 178 cases in 2022 to 503 in 2024. Former pilot, Johan Westin who's a flight operations inspector at the Swedish Transport Agency, says incidents are becoming all the more common and can range from threatening and aggressive behaviour towards staff and other passengers, to drunkenness, harassment, or failure to follow cabin crew instructions.
An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, which hit Denmark on Wednesday afternoon, could be felt in Malmรถ and other parts of southern Sweden.
Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson said she wants to cooperate across bloc lines on several issues after the election, even if she manages to secure a centre-left majority.
EU lawmakers and member states reached a deal in the early hours of Wednesday to implement the bloc's nearly year-old trade pact with the United States, with President Donald Trump threatening new tariffs unless it is done by July 4th.
Sweden's government on Wednesday said it would cut welfare benefits for large families as part of its 2026 budget. It predicted the measure would affect around 5,000 families and increase the incentive to find work.
Danes and Norwegians are enjoying the day off because of Pentecost and Whit Monday. But not Swedes. Why?
Today's word of the day is the Swedish word for 'loneliness' โ but why are Swedes considered some of the loneliest people in the world?