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...
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 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...
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...
The growth in numbers of the once highly endangered species was spurred by hunting quota caps and bans on certain environmentally hazardous substances.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
‘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.
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.
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...
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...
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'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...
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,...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...