Försvarsmakten wants to cover a former training ground in Tullinge rather than excavate PFAS-contaminated soil, raising questions about long-term liability and the Swedish military's growing trail of polluted sites nationwide.

New survey data from Sweden's SOM Institute shows that Swedes rank the United States alongside Turkey and Hungary as the NATO allies they are least willing to send troops to defend — a finding that raises hard questions about whether Stockholm's Article 5 commitments carry any public mandate.

Opponents of Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson's reversal on cooperating with the Sweden Democrats are considering a mass boycott of Sunday's party congress to deny the two-thirds quorum required for binding decisions — a move that would paralyze the party without forcing a direct leadership vote.

The Riksdag has approved säkerhetsförvaring — a new indeterminate sentence allowing Sweden to hold its most dangerous criminals beyond any fixed term, a legal tool Denmark and Norway have used for years while Sweden refused on principle.

Iran has executed a Swedish citizen arrested last year on espionage charges. Sweden's foreign minister condemned the execution, saying the legal process did not meet basic standards of law.

Islamic Relief Sverige is running advertising campaigns across Stockholm and Gothenburg public transit networks — the same organisation that Sweden's state aid agency Sida cut off earlier this year over links to Islamism and terrorist financing.

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson says the Jewish minority should be exempt from his party's proposed ban on religious circumcision — a position that undermines the child-rights argument SD has used for years to justify the prohibition.

Sweden's foreign aid agency Sida has classified the Sweden Democrats' own development organisation Hepatica as an extreme-risk recipient — unable to account for how previous grants were spent — yet has approved a fresh disbursement of 23 million kronor.

Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson has called for Sweden to open a consulate in Greenland — a territory where Stockholm currently has zero diplomatic presence — as the island's strategic value spikes amid American annexation rhetoric and accelerating independence sentiment.

Migration Minister Johan Forssell has dismissed recommendations from both the Council on Legislation and an official government inquiry to include transitional rules for Sweden's new citizenship requirements, offering only an unelaborated 'security reasons' as justification.

The Swedish government's investigator has proposed legislation allowing the state to revoke Swedish citizenship from convicted serious criminals, marking a dramatic reversal for a country that long treated citizenship as an inviolable right.

Finansinspektionen has sanctioned Alecta, one of Sweden's largest occupational pension funds, with a 50 million kronor fine over its investment in troubled Nordic property group Heimstaden — the latest in a series of costly bets made with inadequate risk controls.

Former Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström turned over 2.4 million kronor through a newly formed company during the same twelve months he drew a full parliamentary severance package of 156,000 kronor per month from public funds — raising questions about whether Sweden's exit salary system for senior politicians contains any financial safeguards at all.

Sweden's domestic intelligence agency identifies Russia as the country's greatest security threat while revealing that Iran is using Swedish organised crime networks to carry out attacks on Iranian exiles on Swedish soil — a convergence of two supposedly separate crises.

Sweden's domestic intelligence agency Säpo has published its annual threat assessment, identifying Russia as the single greatest security threat to Sweden and warning the danger will grow in the near term.

Former EU minister Birgitta Ohlsson, one of the Liberal Party's most recognisable figures, is leaving for Centerpartiet ahead of the 2026 election — a defection significant enough that the Centre Party is redrawing its Stockholm Riksdag list to make room.

Sweden has signed a deal to lease prison cells in Tartu, Estonia, transferring some of its most dangerous convicted criminals — murderers and rapists — to serve their sentences abroad. The arrangement has provoked fierce opposition among Tartu residents, who say they were never consulted.

An SVT investigation reveals that Ghislaine Maxwell placed advertisements in a Swedish newspaper to lure young women to a luxury hotel in Gothenburg, where she posed as searching for a personal assistant. Jeffrey Epstein's Swedish ex-girlfriend Eva Andersson-Dubin reportedly assisted in the recruitment.

Sweden's police authority acquired advanced traffic surveillance radar equipment worth two billion kronor before the technology was legally permitted for use. Rather than hold the agency accountable, lawmakers are quietly adjusting legislation to retroactively legitimise the purchase.

When criminal networks began recruiting intellectually disabled students at a Kungsholmen high school for violent errands, the school's rector built a three-way collaboration with police and social services that actually worked — raising the question of why it took a gang violence crisis to produce basic institutional cooperation.

A man in Halland county has been remanded in custody on charges of hedersförtryck — honour-based oppression — a crime Sweden introduced in June 2022. Nearly three years after the law took effect, prosecutions remain exceptionally rare.

A new Indikator Opinion survey for SVT shows a clear majority of Swedes believe the US-Israeli attack on Iran was wrong, with dramatic divides along party, gender, and age lines — uncomfortable data for a country now formally dependent on Washington for its security.

Region Stockholm's red-green majority has voted down an opposition demand for an independent review of political responsibility in a corruption scandal involving million-kronor bribes at the SL public transport authority, prompting accusations that those in power are protecting themselves from scrutiny.

Sweden's ruling coalition and the Sweden Democrats are pushing ahead with a welfare benefit cap and full-time activity requirement despite opposition warnings that cutting payments will deepen child poverty and fuel gang recruitment — a rare admission from a mainstream politician that welfare generosity and organised crime are linked.

A single physician is suspected of submitting fraudulent claims worth 85 million kronor to the Västra Götaland regional health authority — one of the largest individual healthcare fraud cases in recent Swedish history.

A Swedish appeals court has imposed multi-million kronor fines on nine healthcare regions that collectively acquired the Cosmic electronic patient records system without proper public procurement, raising questions about accountability and whether the system ever delivered the efficiency gains used to justify the shortcut.

Staff at the Granliden elder care facility in Gothenburg have repeatedly raised alarms about residents left soiled in their beds and going weeks without bathing — complaints that Gothenburg municipality appears to regard as consistent with acceptable standards.

A Sifo survey for Dagens Industri finds a clear majority of Swedes support the new rural electric vehicle premium — but only three percent think it will actually be widely used.

Sweden's incoming wage floor for labour immigration, effective June 1, will price out tens of thousands of foreign workers in hospitality, agriculture, and cleaning — while a narrow exemption list risks letting the state and organised labour decide which skills the economy actually needs.

Sesol, Sweden's biggest solar panel installation company, has been declared bankrupt after a failed reconstruction, leaving 300 employees without work — the latest in a string of Swedish clean energy collapses that share a common dependency on state subsidies.