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 A reader of The Local shares her story of trying to enter the Swedish job market after completing her doctoral studies. https://www.thelocal.se/20200708/readers-view-why-is-it-so-difficult-for-sweden-to-accept-english-in-public-life Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:00:05 +0200 readers-view-why-is-it-so-difficult-for-sweden-to-accept-english-in-public-life There's bureaucracy, and then there's this story. https://www.thelocal.se/20180813/sweden-is-this-fur-real-dogs-paw-print-needed-to-pick-up-parcel-from-post-office Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:16:52 +0200 sweden-is-this-fur-real-dogs-paw-print-needed-to-pick-up-parcel-from-post-office Seven senior civil servants who left their positions prematurely are now working with various investigative assignments in government offices, pocketing monthly salaries of between 65,000 and 123,000 kronor ($9,500-18,000). https://www.thelocal.se/20110925/36346 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:13:00 +0200 36346 The Baltic island of Öland isn't an island after all, ruled the European Union, thereby depriving Öland of subsidies granted to other islands. The reason for this surprising ruling: the Öland Bridge. https://www.thelocal.se/20110911/36074 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:08:00 +0200 36074 The Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) does not want to recognise a DNA-test as confirmation of the paternity of a Sierra Leone man currently living with his son in Sundsvall. https://www.thelocal.se/20110510/33698 Tue, 10 May 2011 17:34:00 +0200 33698 An 11 tonne cargo of tuna fish forced to make a return journey to Thailand because of faulty paperwork has now completed its voyage back to Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20091030/22966 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:08:00 +0100 22966 Gay marriage has been permitted in Sweden since May, but the country's bureaucrats are proving slow to catch on. Same-sex couples who tie the knot are still being registered by the tax office as domestic partners. https://www.thelocal.se/20090727/20922 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:12:00 +0200 20922 One of the government’s promises when it came into power in September was to reduce the prohibitive costs of rules and administration for small business. The Board of Swedish Industry and Commerce for Better Regulation today released the results of a case study showing some of the effects of the heavy financial burden on a small company in rural Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20061120/5557 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:02:00 +0100 5557 A four year old girl in Söderhamn has been given compensation by the Swedish state after her personal integrity was found to be violated when she was born. https://www.thelocal.se/20060909/4836 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:19:00 +0200 4836 With illegal immigration, some of the world’s highest taxes and a rapes and robberies causing allegedly chaos, the Swedish state has decided to go after a much more pressing danger: grandma’s cookies. https://www.thelocal.se/20060829/4721 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:35:00 +0200 4721