Stefan Löfven's party received 28.4% of the votes, a strong result for a Social Democratic party in government in today's Europe.
The electoral victory of Sweden’s centre-right coalition forces is a historic setback for the country’s once-hegemonic Social Democrats. The pain of defeat is sharpened by the electoral advance of the anti-immigrant Swedish Democrats. To find their way across this new political landscape the centr
The challenge of an emergent xenophobic populism in Sweden is provoking thoughtful centre-left voices to seek an effective response, finds Mats Engström in Stockholm.
Cold winds are blowing through Latvia. The sun might be shining on the beautiful beaches along the Baltic Sea in this small European Union state, but the temperature of the
The police car blocks my way on the small gravel road. At first I don't get it. Then I back off, into a glade in the darkness behind.
By 2020, it was becoming clear that the European Union's climate debate and decisions in 2006-07 had been a turning-point in public awareness and public policy whose effects
Many people around the world seem fond of the Swedish welfare system. As a DJ on XM Radio, Bob Dylan chose the theme "rich and poor" for one
Does Pope Benedict XVI qualify as a citizen of the European Union?
Joseph Ratzinger would hardly pass the tolerance test set up by the state of Baden-Württemberg in his native
In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
For the memorandum dated 11 November 2005 from the president of the Council of Ministers of the European Union to the councils Article 36 / Political and Security Committee, containing
The poster behind John Monks read For a Social Europe. What happens if the proposal for a European Union directive on services is implemented, I asked the secretary-general of the
Inside the Ankara restaurant, more and more Kurdish dishes piled up on the table as Anna Lindh talked with political leaders. Outside, security tried to hold back the press. The
