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 Sweden's Prime Minister Löfven is set to meet Swedish troops in Iraq on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20161025/prime-minister-to-meet-swedish-anti-isis-troops Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:05:37 +0200 prime-minister-to-meet-swedish-anti-isis-troops Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has visited Saudi Arabia a year and a half after relations turned frosty in a major diplomatic row. https://www.thelocal.se/20161024/how-sweden-is-trying-to-smooth-relations-with-saudis Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:07:47 +0200 how-sweden-is-trying-to-smooth-relations-with-saudis Remember when Sweden was locked in a diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia last year? A previously unidentified saviour has stepped up to claim credit for ending the conflict: King Carl XVI Gustaf. https://www.thelocal.se/20160428/king-says-he-helped-sweden-end-spat-with-saudis Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:02:00 +0200 king-says-he-helped-sweden-end-spat-with-saudis Cuban crocodiles born at the zoo at Skansen, Stockholm, are being flown to Cuba, to help the country's efforts to re-establish the species in the wild. The move has emerged days after Skansen revealed that Saudi Arabia had denied visas for four Swedish-born monkeys. https://www.thelocal.se/20150409/sweden-sends-endangered-baby-crocs-to-cuba Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:29:19 +0200 sweden-sends-endangered-baby-crocs-to-cuba Swedish companies worried about the nation's business links with the Arab world should instead be focussing on their own responsibility to promote and demonstrate ethical behaviour, argues business rights advisor Ruben Brunsveld. https://www.thelocal.se/20150330/what-swedish-firms-should-learn-from-saudi-row Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:54:00 +0200 what-swedish-firms-should-learn-from-saudi-row Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf is worried about his country’s diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia and has offered to give his two cents in helping Sweden find a solution to the problem. Next week, he will meet Foreign Minister Margot Wallström to discuss the row. https://www.thelocal.se/20150321/swedens-king-worried-about-saudi-row Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:32:40 +0100 swedens-king-worried-about-saudi-row Palestine's ambassador to Sweden has met with Foreign Minister Margot Wallström to discuss the ongoing spat between Sweden and the Arab League, after Wallström's public criticism of Saudi Arabia. https://www.thelocal.se/20150312/palestinian-ambassador-in-talks-with-swedish-foreign-minister Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:15:08 +0100 palestinian-ambassador-in-talks-with-swedish-foreign-minister Arab foreign ministers have criticized Sweden's comments about Saudi Arabia while the EU has expressed regret after Sweden's foreign minister Margot Wallström accused the oil rich nation of blocking her speech at an Arab League meeting. https://www.thelocal.se/20150310/eu-raps-saudi-silencing-of-swedish-minister Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:06:04 +0100 eu-raps-saudi-silencing-of-swedish-minister Islamist extremist group Isis, a controversial Saudi arms deal and the Israel-Palestine conflict are likely to be hot topics when Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallström speaks at the opening of an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20150304/swedish-foreign-minister-to-speak-at-arab-league-meeting Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:17:00 +0100 swedish-foreign-minister-to-speak-at-arab-league-meeting Moderate Party MP and former minister for defence, Sten Tolgfors, has been paid 115,000 kronor ($17,140) per month since the spring, despite not taking active part in any parliamentary activity, according to a report in daily Dagens Nyheter (DN). https://www.thelocal.se/20121122/44578 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:24:00 +0100 44578 An email with sensitive information about plans by a Swedish military agency to help build an arms plant in Saudi Arabia was removed from the government office's registry, according to a report in the Swedish media. https://www.thelocal.se/20121121/44554 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:59:00 +0100 44554 Two Swedish military agencies at the centre of a scandal over plans to help build a weapons factory in Saudi Arabia also secretly paid millions of kronor to a Russian arms expert for information relevant to the project, a new report has revealed. https://www.thelocal.se/20121004/43610 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:29:00 +0200 43610 A Swedish prosecutor has closed a preliminary inquiry into a controversial defence deal to help Saudi Arabia build an arms factory, prosecutors said Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20120921/43370 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:35:00 +0200 43370 When news of the Saudi arms factory broke in March, the Swedish Defence Research Agency hired crisis management consultants for over 300,000 kronor ($43,000). https://www.thelocal.se/20120617/41492 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:20:00 +0200 41492 Karin Enström of the Moderate party will be Sweden’s new minister for defence, announced prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20120418/40332 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:44:00 +0200 40332 Saudi Arabia on Saturday issued a denial that any deal had been reached with Sweden regarding the construction of an arms factory, a controversy that led to the resignation of the Swedish defence minister last month. https://www.thelocal.se/20120415/40268 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:23:00 +0200 40268 Revelations that Sweden has helped the regime in Saudi Arabia enhance its military capabilities amount to a betrayal of the Arab spring and support for a Saudi-backed Arab counter-revolution, argue a group of Arab and Swedish pro-democracy activists. https://www.thelocal.se/20120411/40210 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:09:00 +0200 40210 Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has said that, although he has not been consulted on the weapons deals with Saudi Arabia, he sees no problems with exporting arms to the country, according to a report in business paper Dagens Industri (DI). https://www.thelocal.se/20120404/40080 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:29:00 +0200 40080 While it's too early to say exactly why Swedish defence minister Sten Tolgfors resigned on Thursday, experts say there is little doubt his departure amid mounting revelations about Sweden's secret arms' deal with Saudi Arabia has delivered a serious blow to the government. https://www.thelocal.se/20120330/40006 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:37:00 +0200 40006 Sweden's minister of defence, Sten Tolgfors, announced on Thursday he was resigning his post, citing the ongoing revelations about Sweden's secret deal to build a weapons plant in Saudia Arabia as "the final straw". https://www.thelocal.se/20120329/39966 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:12:00 +0200 39966