https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swedish furniture giant Ikea has opened its first store in the former Yugoslavia, near Croatia's capital Zagreb. The move marks the company's first step in an expansion to the Balkans market. https://www.thelocal.se/20140822/ikea-pioneers-market-in-balkans Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:44:00 +0200 ikea-pioneers-market-in-balkans Foreign minister Carl Bildt believes Sweden should be a “world power” and once called Russian prime minister Vladmir Putin a “chetnik”, according to internal emails from a US security firm released by WikiLeaks on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20120227/39350 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:16:00 +0100 39350 Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Wednesday that Sweden supports Western Balkan nations' EU aspirations, as Serbia seeks candidate status next month, but warned reforms must be an ongoing process. https://www.thelocal.se/20111110/37270 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:11:00 +0100 37270 Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt on Thursday hailed the arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, calling it the closing of a "dark chapter in European history". https://www.thelocal.se/20110526/34016 Thu, 26 May 2011 18:40:00 +0200 34016 A Stockholm court on Friday sentenced a Bosnian-born Swedish citizen to five years in prison for war crimes committed against Serb prisoners during the war in the former Yugoslavia. https://www.thelocal.se/20110408/33104 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:50:00 +0200 33104 A man suspected of committing war crimes in the former Yugoslavia must remain in custody pending his possible extradition, a Swedish court ruled Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20101230/31170 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:48:00 +0100 31170 A man has been arrested in northwestern Sweden on suspicions of having committed war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. https://www.thelocal.se/20101229/31132 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:34:00 +0100 31132 The trial of a 43-year-old Swedish citizen charged with war crimes started in Stockholm on Wednesday. He is accused of torturing inmates while working as a guard at a Bosnian prison camp in 1992. https://www.thelocal.se/20101013/29590 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:54:00 +0200 29590 Sweden joined forces with Italy in Sarajevo on Wednesday to call on the EU to demonstrate that the "door is open" to Balkan country membership of the union. https://www.thelocal.se/20100602/26988 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:46:00 +0200 26988 Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic asserted on Monday that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has submitted information backing his claims of an immunity deal. https://www.thelocal.se/20090818/21526 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:44:00 +0200 21526 Sweden’s justice ministry has denied a second pardon request from Biljana Plavsicm, the former Bosnian Serb president and convicted war criminal, to have her 11-year-jail sentence ended. https://www.thelocal.se/20081204/16140 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:46:00 +0100 16140 Sweden is to withdraw its peacekeepers from Bosnia-Hercegovina next year, the country's military has announced. https://www.thelocal.se/20071025/8906 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:36:00 +0200 8906 An increasing number of guns are being smuggled into Sweden, police say, with many of them coming from the western Balkans. https://www.thelocal.se/20070725/7988 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:24:00 +0200 7988 A 46 year old man in Malmö, suspected of murdering a woman in Kosovo, is likely to be taken into custody after a request for his arrest was made on Tuesday by the international prosecutor's office in the city. https://www.thelocal.se/20060712/4314 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:20:00 +0200 4314