With just days left before Sweden carries out the most radical citizenship reforms in years, an administrative backlog means 100,000 long-term residents are losing the race against time. The Local speaks with some of the applicants who are watching their future plans slip away as the government continues to rewrite immigration rules.
Former Sweden Democrat MP Katja Nyberg has been barred from working as a police officer, after she was changed with a series of offences, including drug possession.
The Green Party is taking an unusual step to get a new vote on citizenship transitional rules to happen in parliament, as the deadline for the imposition of new rules approaches.
Ukraine plans to buy up to 20 latest model Gripen fighter jets and Sweden will donate 16 older models, the two countries announced as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Sweden.
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".
The biggest culture shock for many foreigners arriving in Sweden comes when they are invited for a swim or a sauna and discover that everyone is expected to be naked. But this being Sweden, there are rules.
Sweden is halving the price of monthly public transport tickets from July 1st until the end of the year, funded by a multibillion-kronor subsidy paid out to the regions.
Ukrainians in Sweden under the Temporary Protection Directive will soon be able to apply for a different type of residence permit without leaving Sweden.
More than 100,000 people gathered in the university town of Lund on Saturday to attend the student-run Lundakarnevalen, which is organised every four years.
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson has his eyes set on roughly half of the seats in a future right-wing cabinet, including three of the following portfolios: finance, foreign, justice and defence.
The last step before a citizenship application can be approved is the personal appearance at a Migration Agency office. The Local's Becky Waterton had her appointment last week – here's what happened.
With governments across Europe tightening citizenship and residency requirements, language and country knowledge tests are often framed as measures of integration. But are governments really talking to domestic political audiences?
In the first of two votes, the Swedish parliament voted to enable authorities to strip dual citizens of their Swedish citizenship in certain situations.
Swedish opposition politicians welcomed an opinion piece from a Sweden Democrat MP in which he apologised for his party's decision to send in two extra MPs to block a motion on transitional citizenship rules.
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.
A Sweden Democrat MP has apologised for his party's decision to send in two extra MPs to block a motion on transitional rules, saying that the party's action had been "wrong" and that principles should never be sacrificed for "short-term parliamentary gains".
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.
