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 young Social Democrats kicked off their congress Tuesday with emotional tributes to those killed in last month's attack on their sister organisation in neighbouring Norway. https://www.thelocal.se/20110803/35320 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:36:00 +0200 35320 SSU, the opposition Social Democrat party youth league, has registered the patent for the Swedish word Alliansen (The Alliance) - the collective name used by the government for its four-party coalition. https://www.thelocal.se/20100317/25566 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:50:00 +0100 25566 The Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) has offered a bouquet of roses as a reward to those responsible for poisoning members of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv). Party leader Mona Sahlin described the offer as "terrible." https://www.thelocal.se/20080927/14600 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:37:00 +0200 14600 The Social Democrat youth organization (SSU) is planning to open a new independent school in Borås. SSU intends to test the independent schools system. https://www.thelocal.se/20080715/13054 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:56:00 +0200 13054 Hotel staff in Brussels are accusing senior members of the youth wing of Sweden's Social Democratic Party of leaving a bedroom covered in human poo and paying a chambermaid only €50 to clear it up. https://www.thelocal.se/20071002/8662 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:42:00 +0200 8662 The youth wing of Sweden's Social Democrats, SSU, has chosen a new chairwoman. https://www.thelocal.se/20070808/8128 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:41:00 +0200 8128 The number of young people actively involved in Sweden's political parties has collapsed since 1990. Total membership of parties' youth movements has fallen from 100,000 in 1990 to just 20,000 today. https://www.thelocal.se/20070806/8108 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:21:00 +0200 8108 Anna Sjödin resigned as leader of the Social Democrats' youth party on Saturday. But the convicted Social Democrat youth leader still claims that she was assaulted and verbally abused in the bar brawl that eventually led to her resignation. https://www.thelocal.se/20061216/5820 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:44:00 +0100 5820 The website of Social Democrat youth movement SSU was hijacked on Friday, and members' personal details were published online. https://www.thelocal.se/20060916/4913 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:56:00 +0200 4913 The prosecutor handling the allegations of assault made by the head of the Social Democrat youth movement (SSU) against a doorman at a Stockholm bar has closed the case. However, Anna Sjödin and her friends are still facing assault charges after the brawl at the Crazy Horse bar in January. https://www.thelocal.se/20060329/3409-2 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:39:00 +0200 3409-2 Dagens Nyheter has accused Pär Nuder, finance minister and 'crown prince' to Göran Persson, of fraudently claiming extra public subsidies as chairman of the Stockholm district of the SSU at the end of the 1980's. By inflating membership figures, the district received several hundred thousand kronor per year more than they were entitled to from Stockholm County Council. https://www.thelocal.se/20050420/1305-2 Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:00:00 +0200 1305-2 The leader of SSU, the Young Social Democrats, has announced that he is to resign. Ardalan Shekarabi has been under pressure for several months, since it emerged that he used SSU funds to finance his leadership campaign. The funds had been earmarked for an integration project. https://www.thelocal.se/20050411/1263-2 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:24:00 +0200 1263-2 An increasing number of Sweden's Young Social Democrat (SSU) "chapters" are now under investigation by the police after it was revealed that they had artificially inflated their membership numbers to secure more state funding. https://www.thelocal.se/20050322/1146-2 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:51:00 +0100 1146-2 Twenty eight members of the Young Social Democrats (SSU) have written a letter to Dagens Nyehter demanding the resignation of their chairman. https://www.thelocal.se/20050305/1052-2 Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:27:00 +0100 1052-2