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 One of the most senior members of the populist Sweden Democrats has been reported to the police after writing on Facebook that Jewish and Sami people were “not Swedish”. https://www.thelocal.se/20180617/populist-politician-reported-for-saying-jews-are-not-swedish Sun, 17 Jun 2018 17:43:21 +0200 populist-politician-reported-for-saying-jews-are-not-swedish Police found no dangerous objects when searching two trains that ground to a halt on Thursday after receiving bomb threats, causing travel chaos for commuters in both Gothenburg and Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20170210/train-bomb-scare-was-false-alarm Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:27:54 +0100 train-bomb-scare-was-false-alarm Residents of Stockholm’s hipster island Södermalm have declared war on a local badger after it attacked and killed a beloved neighbourhood cat. https://www.thelocal.se/20160921/swedens-harambe-hunt-on-for-badger-after-hipster-cat-attack Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:49:51 +0200 swedens-harambe-hunt-on-for-badger-after-hipster-cat-attack UPDATED: A spokesman for the Sweden Democrats has told The Local that "it is not a serious matter" that a senior party member wrote "the religion of peace shows its face" on his Facebook page directly after the fatal Paris shootings. https://www.thelocal.se/20150109/sweden-democrat-rapped-for-paris-comments Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:27:00 +0100 sweden-democrat-rapped-for-paris-comments The party secretary of the Sweden Democrats has suggested that migrants should be given a cash incentive to leave Sweden and suggested that minority groups needed to "assimilate" more to be considered true Swedes. https://www.thelocal.se/20141214/sweden-democrat-pay-migrants-to-leave Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:17:00 +0100 sweden-democrat-pay-migrants-to-leave Erik Almqvist has quit parliament and given up his Sweden Democrat party membership, but now the party plans to hire him as a consultant for its new multi-media project. https://www.thelocal.se/20121231/45346 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:49:00 +0100 45346 Erik Almqvist, the shamed Sweden Democrat who resigned from his post as the party's economic policy spokesman in November, is giving up his seat in parliament and his party membership. https://www.thelocal.se/20121230/45344 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:02:00 +0100 45344 The Swedish hospital that advertised for “hot” nurses has been forced to apologize after an international media frenzy and an official discrimination complaint from a 64-year-old man who claimed he was rejected because he was “too wrinkly” and has a "slight limp". https://www.thelocal.se/20120224/39314 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:51:00 +0100 39314