• Employers organisation: Educated migrants an underutilised resource in Sweden
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Highly educated migrants are underutilised in Sweden, says the employer organisation Almega's chief economist Patrick Joyce. According to figures from Statistics Sweden, 17,000 people born outside Europe aged between 25 and 65 emigrated...
  • Heatwave causes Russian radio broadcasts to leak into Finland
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    Certain weather conditions, such as high pressure fronts, can cause a radio signal to travel further than it normally would.
  • Eggs-tra charges incoming: Scandic scramble Swedish hotel norms
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    The biggest hotel chain in the Nordic region, Scandic Hotels, have announced that they will soon start charging extra for breakfast. It's long been tradition in Sweden for hotels to include breakfast in the nightly rate. Scandic Hotels...
  • Migrants who leave Sweden often have a university education
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Migrants from outside Europe who leave Sweden often have a tertiary education, according to figures Statistics Sweden has collated for Radio Sweden. One factor for them deciding to leave Sweden could be difficulties finding work that...
  • Three convicted of complicity in murder of Swedish rapper C.Gambino
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Swedish rapper C.Gambino was shot in a parking garage in Gothenburg last summer, and later died from his injuries. Now three men have been handed long prison sentences for complicity in the rapper's murder, with one receiving a life...
  • Frustrated jobseekers lash out at recruiters as Finland's unemployment grows
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    Feedback heard from jobseekers reflect a common sentiment — they feel completely alone, a recruiter says.
  • Police urge parents to mind swimming kids amid spate of near-drownings this week
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    "Parents at least need to be by the edge of the pool. Watching from a couple hundred metres away is not supervision," lifeguard Daniel Kass said.
  • Finland's Baltic ringed seal population thriving, study finds
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The growth in numbers of the once highly endangered species was spurred by hunting quota caps and bans on certain environmentally hazardous substances.
  • Unemployment rising in Sweden across several industries
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Unemployment in Sweden has risen from 6.6% to 6.9% in a year, according to the Public Employment Service's calculations based on the number of people registered with the service. Some sectors have been hit harder than others, for example...
  • Emails suggest intern programme gave preferential treatment to president's son
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    An Yle investigation finds that all of the interns at the Institute for International Affairs over the past five years had significantly more educational experience than Oliver Stubb.
  • Tick sightings in Finland double compared to last year
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    Experts say the tick population has grown significantly as Finland’s environmental conditions have become steadily more favourable for them.
  • Top Swedish gang figure arrested in Iraq
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Iraqi police have arrested a key figure in the Foxtrot criminal organisation, reports Swedish Radio's P3 Krim programme. SVT was first to report on the arrest. The arrested man is in his mid-20s and can be linked to several killings in...
  • Finland to continue offering temporary protection to Ukrainians until 2027
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    There are currently an estimated 46,000 Ukrainian citizens receiving temporary protection in Finland.
  • Lengthy labour dispute costs Finnair tens of millions of euros
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The months-long industrial dispute led to a significant decline in the national airline’s operating result for the second quarter of this year.
  • HS poll: SDP remain most popular, support for Finns Party rises
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    Finland's Social Democrats hold a strong lead over Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s National Coalition Party, according to Helsingin Sanomat.
  • 'Forest bathing' study gets underway in Stockholm
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    New research on 'forest bathing', a practice originating in Japan, is being carried out in Stockholm. Previous studies show that people with stress-related illnesses and anxiety can benefit from forest bathing. The practice involves...
  • PM Orpo: No queries from Ukraine, Russia regarding Wagner fighters
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The Finnish Border Guard detained a former Wagner Group fighter from Russia in mid-June, after he illegally crossed the border and applied for asylum.
  • More blood donor nurses in Gothenburg to be taught medical English to expand service
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    English-speakers in Gothenburg who struggle with Swedish have been allowed to donate blood since February and the response since has been described as "very positive". More blood donor nurses are being taught English medical jargon to...
  • Drunk man steals Helsinki bus, drives off with one passenger, picks up another
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    "He said that it was impulsive — a spur-of-the moment idea," detective chief inspector Mikko Minkkinen explains.
  • North Savo ends contracts with foreign nurses, doctors over language, skills gaps
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The contracts of 10 nurses and two doctors working in the region were terminated by local healthcare authorities during their probationary periods.
  • Tourism contributing to local water shortages in Sweden
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Population increases in the summer months are one of the factors leading to water shortages in popular Swedish tourist towns, according to a survey by Swedish Radio's local P4 channels. Among them is Borgholm on the island of Öland,...
  • Road collapses in Keuruu for second time in a year
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    An expert estimated that wet weather may have softened the road, and vibrations from drilling could have contributed to the collapse.
  • Discrimination watchdog on when employers can or can't demand a Swedish degree
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    A dentist with a degree from Syria but with a Swedish license was judged not to be qualified for a job by two employers because their degree was not from a Swedish university. The dentist complained and the Equality Ombudsman fined the...
  • Fatal car-truck crash stops traffic in Hanko
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    Both vehicles caught fire following the collision.
  • Move over, pop: Swedish rock and metal now more popular abroad
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Swedish hard rock and metal music is now more successful abroad than Swedish pop, according to new figures from Spotify. Pop and dance music accounted for much of the Swedish music industry's international success in the 2000s. But now...
  • Swedish minister: EU preparing to counter US tariff threat
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    EU ministers for foreign trade held a special meeting on Monday. Meanwhile, the bloc's trade commissioner warns that all trade with the US is at risk of collapsing. The EU is continuing to negotiate with the US, but is simultaneously...
  • Stubb welcomes Trump plan to send more weapons to Ukraine
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The Finnish president said Donald Trump's 50-day ceasefire deadline —and the threat of more sanctions — are key in forcing Russia to the negotiating table.
  • FMI issues heat warning for this week
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    ‘Hot weather’ is when the daily high exceeds 27 degrees Celsius with an average temperature of at least 20 degrees, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
  • EVA survey: Rising number of Finns lean politically right
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The proportion of people identifying as right-wing is now at its highest level in the history of their surveys, according to the Finnish Business and Policy Forum.
  • Illegal dumping continues in Södertälje — despite cooperation with Italian anti-mafia police
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Södertälje is one of the Swedish municipalities worst impacted by illegal waste management and garbage dumping. Authorities there have for around a year worked with Italian anti-mafia police, who've dealt with similar offending — but the...
  • Probe launched after Helsinki police fatally shoot knife-wielding man
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    Prior to discharging the firearm, officers tried using a taser, a police dog and a less-than-lethal riot gun to subdue the suspect.
  • Swedish teen convicted of ordering attempted killings — from his home in Spain
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    A Swedish district court today convicted a 16-year-old boy of, among other things, serious attempted blackmail and accessory to attempted murder. The teen who denied wrongdoing and was living in Spain at the time, is said to have...
  • Watch: Arrival of streaming star 'IShowSpeed' shakes up Helsinki
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The YouTuber arrived on Monday afternoon, bringing many fans to downtown Helsinki as he live-streamed the chaos surrounding him.
  • Stop peeing in the Baltic Sea, says expert
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Now is the season for swimming and spending time in the sea. But peeing in the waters of the Baltic Sea can have a negative environmental impact. Anna Björn, a biologist and manager of the Baltic Sea Science Center at Stockholm's Skansen...
  • Stockholm metro a magnet for tourists in the heat of the summer
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Stockholm's metro is often dubbed the "world's longest art gallery," with 95 of its 100 underground and overground stations decorated with paintings, murals, engravings and other forms of artistic expression. But while the thousands of...
  • Hot weather continues across Finland as thunderstorm warnings persist
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    While most of the country may bask in sunshine and heat, local conditions could vary dramatically in the southwest due to thunderstorms.
  • THL: People in South Ostrobothnia lead Finland's growing weight issues
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    One reason the region has relatively heavier people is that there are more passenger vehicles there — with 612 cars for every 1,000 residents.
  • Sweden to play England in Euro 2025 quarter-finals
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    Sweden's women's national football team pulled off a huge 4-1 victory against Germany in their last group match at Euro 2025 over the weekend. And now Sweden will face England in the quarter-finals on Thursday night. At the last Euros,...
  • 'Everyone loses': Sweden reacts to Trump's EU tariff threat
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
    The Swedish government says the White House's threatened 30 per cent import tariffs against the EU are "regrettable". Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson writes on social media that the government backs the European Commission's aim of a...
  • Fazer to build €400m chocolate factory in Lahti in company's largest-ever investment
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The planned facility by Finland's famed confectionery brand is expected to bring two million euros in additional tax revenue to the city of Lahti.
  • Finland's average unemployment duration reaches record length
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    One economist says the problem isn't that people don't want to work, but there aren't enough job openings in Finland.
  • Proud knitting men wiser for the experience
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
    Six men in Hrísey began a knitting course with retired textile teacher Svanhildur Daníelsdóttir on February 1st—and a seventh joined later. The project: to knit a traditional Icelandic lopapeysa sweater for themselves. They completed the...
  • Heatwave expected tomorrow
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
    A heatwave is expected across much of the country tomorrow, according to Haraldur Eiríksson, meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, who says temperatures could exceed 20°C in all regions.
  • Deal reached in Finnish aviation labour dispute, strikes called off
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    Negotiations dragged on for over six months, during which Finnair cancelled more than 1,200 flights due to industrial action.
  • Rainy start to summer brings early mushroom boom in southern Finland
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    The season is not only off to a strong start, but the fungi are appearing unusually early, says one mushroom expert.
  • Finland records hottest day of the summer as temperatures break heat threshold
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
    Weather warnings for heat are in effect in the north, while in the south there are warnings for heavy rain and thunderstorms.
  • Shots fired inside hotel room in Reykjavík
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
    A firearm was discharged inside a hotel room in Reykjavík last night.
  • Parliament adjournment confirmed
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
    An agreement has been reached on the official adjournment of Parliament, according to Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir, Speaker of Alþingi. The final parliamentary session before the summer recess will take place on Monday, July 14.
  • Andrea wins for the fifth time – Þorsteinn defends his title
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
    Þorsteinn Roy Halldórsson successfully defended his title, winning the Laugavegur Ultra Marathon for the second year in a row. Andrea Kolbeinsdóttir claimed victory in the women’s category for the fifth consecutive year.
  • Grave concerns over request for Parliamentary memo
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
    Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir, chair of the Independence Party, says she views it as extremely serious that the People's Party requested a memo from the parliamentary office concerning the origin and use of Article 71 of the parliamentary...
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