The Swedish government on Tuesday said it has proposed raising the property tax on wind farms to 0.5% of the taxation value from 0.2% currently, bringing it in line with that of other forms of electricity generation.

Stockholm Wood City is swapping polluting steel and concrete for a more climate-friendly construction material: timber.

However, Sweden's centre-right governing parties, backed by the more radical anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, want the changes to tackle the dramatic rise in gang crime and the

Sweden is preparing to change the constitution to be able to take away the passports of people who obtained citizenship by fraudulent means, or who are a threat to the state, the government said on Wednesday.

The Türkiye-Sweden Security Mechanism will meet on Tuesday in the capital Ankara with the participation of both countries’ foreign ministers and a

Martin Trenneborg drugged Isabel Eriksson using Rohypnol-laced strawberries and locked her in a soundproof bunker

As asylum and immigration figures continued to fall in 2024, the right and far right, in power since September 2022, have continued to make announcements aimed at tightening reception conditions in the Scandinavian kingdom.

Nearly two thirds of convicted rapists in Sweden are migrants or second generation immigrants, a new study has found. Researchers at Lund University found that 63 per cent of convictions for rape or attempted rape were handed down to people born abroad, or whose parents were born abroad.

We will need to take some risks to build a stronger defence capability faster than we normally do,’ says country’s defence minister

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Swedish defence equipment maker Saab expects to report 2024 organic sales growth of 23.4%, it said on Friday, above its previous outlook at the upper end of a 15-20% range. The company,

Sweden’s core inflation rate slowed more than expected at the end of the year, fueling expectations that the Riksbank will deliver its one planned interest-rate cut already this month.

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