Sweden's Left Party has exempted new MP Mohamed Ali from the share of salary every other MP pays the party, so he can clear around 40 debts - many of them unpaid child support. A former party official calls it "absolutely unbelievable".
Mats Dagerlind
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Sweden will pay 61.6 billion kronor to the EU next year, up from 45.7 billion in 2025, according to the 2027 budget bill. After defence, the EU fee is the fastest-growing item in the entire state budget.
Samnytt News Desk
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A Cairo court has designated the Islamic Association in Sweden - long described by researchers as the Muslim Brotherhood's Swedish branch - a terrorist organisation, alongside 34 other European Islamic groups and 36 individuals, one of whom shares the name of the association's former chairman.
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After an Iran-linked spy scandal, the Sweden Democrats' migration spokesperson Jessica Stegrud says it is "not impossible" that the Swedish Migration Agency must be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch - and floats requiring staff to be born in Sweden.
Mats Dagerlind
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The Swedish Parliament has taken the second and final vote to change the constitution so that Swedish citizenship can be revoked. It covers people who lied to get it and dual nationals convicted of crimes that seriously harm Sweden - including terrorism and the worst gang violence.
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For years her daughter was teased, shut out and kicked at school in Rimbo, north of Stockholm. When the school did nothing, the mother went to the playground herself. She was convicted of unlawful threats against three boys - and ordered to pay them 30,000 kronor. "I would do it again."
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How the Sweden Democrats (SD) and Sweden's center-right coalition reshaped migration, criminal justice, and nuclear energy rules - and why municipal coalitions are pushing back.
EXPLAINER #2 · JUSTICE SYSTEMInside Sweden’s juvenile sentencing rules, closed state youth homes (SiS), and the legal clash when families intervene to rescue children from contract-killing networks.
EXPLAINER #3 · INSTITUTIONSWhy a 5.4-million-member Lutheran church with SEK 24B in annual revenue holds partisan elections and funds theological inquiries into polyamory and activist causes.
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The red-greens won 176 seats and celebrated with cake. Six weeks on, 248 MPs have voted against Magdalena Andersson, even the Left Party said no,…
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