Brussels Wants to Auto-Approve Doctors Trained Outside the EU
Non-EU doctors, nurses and dentists would be cleared in four months instead of 14. Sweden warns of fake diplomas - but can be outvoted.
Non-EU doctors, nurses and dentists would be cleared in four months instead of 14. Sweden warns of fake diplomas - but can be outvoted.
He allegedly came back to a Swedish playground with a samurai sword shouting "I'm going to kill you". Three men were struck. Now prosecutors want the 32-year-old foreign national deported for life.
Only her own 25 MPs backed Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist. Now Ulf Kristersson gets a week to try - and the Speaker has just two attempts left before a snap election.
A manager suspended for snooping in secret registers, a case officer fired for leaking to Iran. Now the Sweden Democrats want every employee to hold Swedish citizenship.
Sami, Jewish and Tornedalian identity is closed to outsiders, says the Social Democrats' minority spokesperson. But Swedes, she says, are not an ethnic group at all.
Only 69 percent of Swedes now trust that elections are run correctly, down from 77 percent a year ago. Researchers blame the suspected vote fraud in Borlänge - and only a third of Sweden Democrat voters still trust the count.
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