The world's most feminist city – how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
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Children under the age of two should not use any digital media, according to new recommendations from Sweden's public health agency
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Swedes take a new step in parental leave. Grandparents can now get paid to take care of grandkids.
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Parental union dissolution and the gender revolution – how divorce is boosting gender equality in Sweden
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Sweden has consistently reported some of the lowest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world – unfortunately these achievements don't extend to foreign-born mothers
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When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice
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Sweden's ‘living advent calendar’ tradition has spread to towns and villages across Europe
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Sweden halts adoptions from South Korea after claims of falsified papers on origins of children
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Residents of Luleå, Sweden welcome new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months
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What are some of the worst things about living in Sweden?
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Sweden's schools minister Lotta Edholm aims to limit the profit-making ability of friskolor/free schools in her plans for education reform
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Fika, four-week-holidays and zero overtime – Sweden's stunningly healthy work culture
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Professionals in Sweden are pushing back hard against a rightwing plan to make them snitch on undocumented migrants
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Swedish schools minister Lotta Edholm moves students off digital devices and on to books and handwriting, with teachers and experts debating the pros and cons
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Sweden seeks to stem deadly rise in youth crime – illegal guns are relatively accessible, with younger and younger children being drawn into serious crime
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The last campfire in Swedish society – Sommar i P1, the radio show that unifies a nation
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Sweden Muslim woman who refused handshake at job interview wins case
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Euronews travelled to Sweden's second-largest city, Gothenburg, to learn more about another type of economy, one that puts people first: the social economy
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Murhaf raises $230,000 selling charity flower pins in Sweden – sales skyrocket after a viral post about the boy, and a racist backlash, only brings in more money
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Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women – The Old Lady Patrol's protest against the country's pension system enters its tenth year
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More Swedish mothers are having babies after the age of forty-five than teenagers, new data from the Scandinavian country shows
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Legal expert Anna Singer is investigating whether Swedish authorities were aware of falsified child origins as they approved the adoptions of thousands of South Korean children
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Fast-rising electricity bills and surging food price inflation are taking their toll in Sweden – Matmissionen and the social stores offering food at rock-bottom prices
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Top performers include Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands in the European EIGE Gender Equality Index for 2022
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People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised
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Indigenous reindeer herders fear the drive towards a more sustainable economy is destroying their traditional way of life and identity in Sweden
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Preppers: Sweden bracing for the worst
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IKEA has cut sick pay for unvaccinated workers, without mitigating circumstances, required to self isolate – retail giant acknowledged it was an emotive topic
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Giant straw goat that has become an annual highlight in the Swedish city of Gävle has been burned by an arsonist... again
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Europe's newest industrial megaprojects are relocating to the far north of Sweden – but are curling, wild reindeer and the northern lights enough to convince workers to follow?
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For the past year Vladislav and Vitalij Kusnetshik have been hiding out in Sweden's Minsk embassy to avoid persecution by Belarus authorities
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In the past five years, violent gangs from Sweden have increased their presence in Spain, drawn in by the warm weather and high quality of life
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Swedish carmaker Volvo will offer a generous paid parental leave scheme to its 40,000 employees globally
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Kulning – The often high-pitched herding calls of the Nordic fäbod culture; a group of labor songs developed out of needs rather than musical expression
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Swedes have long embraced their version of staycations: hemester – Covid-19 travel restrictions and remote working are reshaping the tradition
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The extraordinary story of Thomas Quick, the Swedish serial killer who never existed
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Photographing orphaned baby squirrels in the wild – photographer and zoologist Dani Connor 'adopted' four squirrels after their mother died
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Private dinners where men discuss feelings and equality have taken off in Sweden – but the concept isn't without controversy
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It's not every day that the face of a chief epidemiologist is inked as a tattoo – a very Swedish tribute
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Sámi herders won back exclusive rights to hunting and fishing in their area of the Arctic – but that has led to heightened tensions between them and local Swedes
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Furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic, airline and hotel employees in Sweden are retraining to work as hospital and nursing home assistants
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Swedes are used to living alone, following rules and championing innovation. How much will these social norms help during the coronavirus crisis?
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How Sweden is fixing the housework gender gap – do Swedish-style tax breaks for cleaners provide a solution or perpetuate gender-role norms?
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Inside the Kyiv fraud factory stealing senior citizens’ savings
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Talking to your neighbours is mandatory if you live in this block of flats – it's all part of a plan to help tackle loneliness
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New data from Sweden challenges the idea that parents of autistic children refrain from having more children, a practice known as reproductive stoppage
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Sweden has been criticized by the UN for failings when it comes to the rights of the indigenous Sámi people
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Supreme Court has granted Sámi in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on its land – and not the Swedish state
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Being laid off from a job is never a pleasant experience, but Sweden's 'transition system' promises to do far more than just get you back on your feet
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40,000 festive shoppers to hit Swedish superstore – shoppers travel from afar to Gekås Ullared mega-mall, an institution that has its own reality TV show
4 votes