Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Saturday that the country’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) process has paused, local media reported. “The events of the last few weeks have temporarily caused the process to [Read More]
Sweden’s state-owned energy company Vattenfall is investigating the possibility of installing new small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) at the site of an existing nuclear power plant to secure power supply, Aftonbladet newspaper reported on Wednesday. [Read More]
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has said that Finland might have to reconsider promoting a joint, simultaneous entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO if Sweden’s application is delayed much longer. Joint entry with Sweden [Read More]
The Swedish government on Tuesday announced an “international information campaign,” which it expects to discourage refugees from coming to the country. “The main objective is to inform about the Swedish migration policy so that fewer [Read More]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday warned Sweden that it should not expect Turkey’s backing to join the NATO following the burning of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm. “Those who allow [Read More]
The escalating gang violence in Sweden is tantamount to domestic terrorism, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said here on Monday. His comment came after a wave of attacks, which last year killed 61 according to police [Read More]
Due mainly to the ongoing Ukraine crisis, the accelerating rate of inflation and high electricity prices, the number of bankruptcies in Sweden rose to the highest level in a decade during the second half of [Read More]
The Turkish foreign minister on Tuesday slammed as “absurd” a Swedish prosecutor’s decision not to investigate a protest in Stockholm in which Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s puppet was hung. “The decision by the (Swedish) prosecutor’s [Read More]
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned Swedish Ambassador Staffan Herrstrom to protest the “terror propaganda” against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The ministry conveyed Turkey’s reaction over the anti-Erdogan protests held by the supporters of [Read More]
Sweden on Sunday took over from the Czech Republic at the helm of the six-month rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). Sweden will hold the presidency for six months until June [Read More]
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