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 Young Swedes are becoming more politically engaged, but almost half of them have little confidence in politicians, a new survey shows. https://www.thelocal.se/20170419/young-swedes-becoming-more-politically-engaged-but-dont-trust-politicians-survey Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:45:25 +0200 young-swedes-becoming-more-politically-engaged-but-dont-trust-politicians-survey UPDATED: Staff at a home for refugee children in southern Sweden were forced to barricade themselves in a room on Wednesday night, after 19 young men in their care rioted and attacked them with weapons. https://www.thelocal.se/20160128/staff-at-asylum-centre-attacked-by-rioting-youth Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:22:01 +0100 staff-at-asylum-centre-attacked-by-rioting-youth Swedish police are struggling to know what to do with a new batch of criminal reports filed by teenagers upset about a controversial app that allows users to post comments and pictures anonymously. https://www.thelocal.se/20140922/swedish-teenagers-abused-on-secret-app Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:23:00 +0200 swedish-teenagers-abused-on-secret-app Sweden is the best country in Europe to be young, and the second best in the world, according to a ranking released on Thursday. But the report authors found that young Swedes may not feel they are being heard by policy-makers. https://www.thelocal.se/20140404/sweden-second-best-place-in-world-to-be-young-2 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:04:00 +0200 sweden-second-best-place-in-world-to-be-young-2 Sweden announced on Thursday that pilot projects helping young people stay out of crime had reaped such success that they would be rolled out nationwide. https://www.thelocal.se/20130221/46332 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:40:00 +0100 46332 Many Swedish teenager girls are copying traditionally masculine aggression, Swedish youth centre workers at the organization Fryshuset have warned. https://www.thelocal.se/20130218/46246 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:42:00 +0100 46246 Men under the age of 29 account for half of all reported cases of violent assault in Sweden, a new review shows. https://www.thelocal.se/20130204/45994 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:26:00 +0100 45994 Night and weekend curfews ought to be one of the punishments facing criminal offenders between 15- and 17-years-old, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt suggested on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20130130/45896 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:44:00 +0100 45896 Swedish employers groups on Tuesday pulled out of negotiations over a key government youth unemployment package expected to create 30,000 jobs, but Finance Minister Anders Borg downplayed the development. https://www.thelocal.se/20130129/45890 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:24:00 +0100 45890 The two Gothenburg high schools affected by December's Instagram riot, when teenagers assembled a flash mob in response to a "slut shaming" account on the popular image website, are to educate the parents about social media. https://www.thelocal.se/20130124/45788 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:04:00 +0100 45788 Career criminals cost Swedish society so much that the government needs to take youth criminality more seriously, not only for the individual's sake, but also to keep costs in check, two economists have claimed https://www.thelocal.se/20130103/45392 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:19:00 +0100 45392 Watching pornography and exposing oneself sexually online can enrich young people's lives, a Swedish researcher has found, but doing so also carries risks. https://www.thelocal.se/20121221/45216 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:05:00 +0100 45216 On the heels of the publication of a comprehensive study about Swedes and the internet, The Local offers up a slew of surprising facts revealing what Swedes do online. https://www.thelocal.se/20121018/43908 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:31:00 +0200 43908 Police have admitted that none of the more than a dozen Stockholm school students nabbed in a high-profile drug raid tested positive for drugs and no charges were filed, raising questions about the police's methods in the case. https://www.thelocal.se/20120711/41970 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:40:00 +0200 41970 Some 120,000 people in Sweden between the ages of 16 and 25 were neither working nor studying in 2010, according to a new report published Thursday by the National Board of Youth Affairs (Ungdomsstyrelsen). https://www.thelocal.se/20120628/41716 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:08:00 +0200 41716 Swedish courts are wrong in how they've interpreted recently beefed up sex crime laws, needlessly turning consenting, love-struck teens into potential criminals, according Thomas Bodström, the ex-minister who oversaw the 2005 legislation. https://www.thelocal.se/20120403/40066 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:03:00 +0200 40066 Children as young as 11 have been apprehended following a series of house burglaries in Uppsala, in eastern Sweden, which led the flabbergasted police to a youth gang using very young members to commit crimes. https://www.thelocal.se/20120309/39572 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:05:00 +0100 39572 A gang of teenage boys have been charged for ambushing and assaulting a 17-year-old boy in a playground north of Stockholm at the behest of a 16-year-old girl who had accused the boy of raping her. https://www.thelocal.se/20120111/38440 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:11:00 +0100 38440 Things got out of hand at a hockey game for 11-year-olds in western Sweden after heckling of a boy by two members of the audience triggered a massive brawl among parents at a match between youth teams from Hovås and Frölunda hockey clubs. https://www.thelocal.se/20111205/37744 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:59:00 +0100 37744 A school in southern Sweden might have to pay damages for failing to help a student who was subjected to kicks, punches and verbal abuse by fellow students for two years. https://www.thelocal.se/20111104/37152 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:47:00 +0100 37152