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 An offer from the editor of a far-right website to pay travel costs and accommodation for any journalist willing to stay in "crime-ridden migrant suburbs" of Malmö appears to have backfired, after dozens of people accepted his pledge on Twitter. https://www.thelocal.se/20170221/far-right-editors-offer-to-pay-travel-costs-to-crime-ridden-malmo-backfires-as-dozens-accept Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:10:09 +0100 far-right-editors-offer-to-pay-travel-costs-to-crime-ridden-malmo-backfires-as-dozens-accept Sweden received 70 percent fewer requests for asylum in the period between January and September 2016 than it did during the same time last year, the country’s justice and migration minister Morgan Johansson has revealed. https://www.thelocal.se/20161021/asylum-requests-in-sweden-down-by-70-percent-migration-minister Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:18:55 +0200 asylum-requests-in-sweden-down-by-70-percent-migration-minister A week after the Swedish Migration Board announced it was tripling the maximum number of residents allowed at asylum centres, The Local brings you a special report from inside Märsta, the country's busiest asylum application centre just outside Stockholm, where hundreds of refugees spend their first nights in Sweden each week. https://www.thelocal.se/20150329/it-was-a-long-journey-and-some-of-my-friends-died Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:47:00 +0200 it-was-a-long-journey-and-some-of-my-friends-died European countries should more evenly share the growing burden of new arrivals from Syria, the UN’s Refugee Agency has told The Local as refugee numbers continue to swell in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20150312/relocate-syrian-refugees-within-europe-says-un Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:15:00 +0100 relocate-syrian-refugees-within-europe-says-un Refugees should not be forced to make dangerous journeys to Europe in order to seek asylum, argues Liberal Party MEP Cecilia Wikström, who also wants to see other EU states joining Sweden and Germany in taking in more people from war-torn nations. https://www.thelocal.se/20150303/why-are-there-still-no-legal-ways-for-refugees-to-get-to-sweden Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:00:00 +0100 why-are-there-still-no-legal-ways-for-refugees-to-get-to-sweden Fewer refugees than previously predicted are expected to arrive in Sweden in 2015, as the conflict in Libya cuts off land routes from Eritrea to Europe. https://www.thelocal.se/20150203/few-asylum-seekers-expected-in-sweden Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:25:00 +0100 few-asylum-seekers-expected-in-sweden Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has criticised a proposal by the Christian Democrats to reduce the costs of the asylum process, suggesting the idea may play into the hands of the nationalist Sweden Democrats. https://www.thelocal.se/20141219/swedish-pm-hits-out-at-mooted-asylum-changes Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:27:00 +0100 swedish-pm-hits-out-at-mooted-asylum-changes “Immigrants” were listed along with “asbestos” and “noise” on a list of 39 risk factors on a form to be filled out by cooperative housing associations belonging to HSB Skåne in southern Sweden, reports Sydsvenskan newspaper. The list was intended to assess the health and safety environment of various HSB properties. https://www.thelocal.se/20091222/23994 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:50:00 +0100 23994 A total of 34 people, mostly from Vietnam, went on trial in southern Sweden on Tuesday accused of trafficking people from Vietnam to Sweden, judicial sources said. https://www.thelocal.se/20080304/10266 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:54:00 +0100 10266