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 Over 4,000 people gathered in central Stockholm on Monday to demonstrate for diversity and against racism, with the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats in focus as the party took its place in parliament for the first time. https://www.thelocal.se/20101005/29424 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:06:00 +0200 29424 The red-green coalition revealed a split on a proposal to cut taxes on pensioners to the levels of wage earners on Wednesday morning. https://www.thelocal.se/20100825/28578 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:04:00 +0200 28578 With 35 days to go before Sweden votes in a general election the Alliance coalition retained its slim lead over the Red-Green opposition, a new poll from Sifo shows. The far-right Sweden Democrats would meanwhile claim seats in parliament. https://www.thelocal.se/20100816/28386 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:09:00 +0200 28386 There are too many voter opinion polls - on this point parliamentary party leaders are in agreement, according to a survey by the Svenska Dagbladet daily. https://www.thelocal.se/20100713/27754 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:49:00 +0200 27754 The Left Party has changed its name, albeit temporarily, in order to profile its core issues and arrest the long-term slide in voter support, hoping to deflect criticism of party leader Lars Ohly. https://www.thelocal.se/20100705/27608 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:37:00 +0200 27608 The jobs, the environment and unemployment were the dominant themes in the party leaders' debate in Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20100616/27270 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:53:00 +0200 27270 Left Party leader Lars Ohly has declined the invitation to attend Crown Princess Victoria's wedding to Daniel Westling on June 19th. https://www.thelocal.se/20100414/26064 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:34:00 +0200 26064 Lars Ohly, the leader of the Swedish Left party, was rushed to hospital on Friday night. After experiencing stomach pains Ohly underwent an emergency operation. https://www.thelocal.se/20090413/18818 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:25:00 +0200 18818 Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin remains hopeful that a tripartite coalition with the Green party and the Left party remains possible. Confirmation is expected within two weeks, Sahlin says. https://www.thelocal.se/20081101/15376 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:15:00 +0100 15376 Former prime minister Göran Persson has made his final appearance in a party leader debate in the Riksdag, Sweden's parliament. The man who defeated him, Fredrik Reinfeldt, used the opportunity to stretch out his hand to Persson's successor. https://www.thelocal.se/20070117/6119 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:25:00 +0100 6119 Lefty Party leader Lars Ohly has now apologised to TV4 for raising his middle finger to a columnist from Expressen on the channel's Monday morning talk show. https://www.thelocal.se/20060921/4985 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:13:00 +0200 4985 The white upper classes need to integrate with the rest of Sweden, Lars Ohly has said. https://www.thelocal.se/20060908/4828 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:57:00 +0200 4828 The leader of Sweden's Left Party, Lars Ohly, fiercely attacked the government's foreign and criminal justice policies in a summer speech at the launch of his party's election campaign outside Gnesta on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.se/20060813/4591 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:38:00 +0200 4591 Calling religion the opium of the people is 'vulgar Marxism', Left Party leader Lars Ohly told a pre-election meeting on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20060727/4435 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:05:00 +0200 4435 Sweden's Left Party is demanding that Sweden stop arms exports to the United States, Britain and other countries with troops in Iraq. Leader Lars Ohly also said that the country's military should stop all cooperation with Israel, citing current Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. https://www.thelocal.se/20060707/4276 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:15:00 +0200 4276 The leader of Sweden’s Left Party is putting his foot down before national elections this September. https://www.thelocal.se/20060518/3840 Thu, 18 May 2006 13:03:00 +0200 3840 The Social Democrats could form a formal coalition with the Left Party after the next election, prime minister Göran Persson has said. https://www.thelocal.se/20060112/2853-2 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:57:00 +0100 2853-2 Lars Ohly has launched a scathing attack on Left Party rebels, telling them to leave the embattled former-communist grouping. https://www.thelocal.se/20060105/2804-2 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:59:00 +0100 2804-2 The depth of the rift in Sweden's Left Party was revealed on Thursday with the news that the party's leadership, including leader Lars Ohly, threatened to resign after being fiercely criticised in an internal report. https://www.thelocal.se/20051117/2512-2 Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:54:00 +0100 2512-2 The leader of the Left Party, Lars Ohly, has decided to stop calling himself a communist, after a year of ridicule from his political opponents both inside and outside the Party. https://www.thelocal.se/20051031/2392-2 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:58:00 +0100 2392-2