Sweden’s renewable energy tax proposal under fire
Researchers and solar power advocates criticise the government’s plans to introduce a tax on renewable energies, Swedish Radio News reports.
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Sami languages disappear
The world’s smallest language, Ter Sami, is only spoken by two persons. Also, Ume Sami and Pite Sami will not
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Swedish hockey team accused of offending Native Americans
Gothenburg’s Frölunda Hockey Club has been reported to the Discrimination Ombudsman because of its nickname and logo, which the complainant
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Relocation of Arctic town underway in Sweden
After years of planning, the first steps of tearing down and moving the Arctic town of Kiruna started today in
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Sweden to expand teaching of minority languages
The Swedish National Agency for Education, or Skolverket, is to expand the teaching of Sweden’s five national minority languages (Yiddish, Finnish,
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Free birth control halves number of abortions carried out in northern Sweden
Since Sweden’s Norrbotten county council began offering free birth control to young women three years ago the number of abortions
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Rally of snow and ice thrills spectators in Sweden
One of the biggest events in the Swedish sporting calendar, The Rally of Sweden, gets underway in Karlstad this evening,
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Minecraft co-founder to sponsor hockey team in Sweden’s Far North
The Luleå hockey team in northern Sweden has been investing a lot of new money into their team this year,
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No new nuclear power programmes in Sweden
The plans to start new nuclear programmes in Sweden seem to have come to a halt as the roughly 50
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Energy consumption at 30-year low in Sweden
Warm weather and a weak European economy brought a dip in Swedish electric energy use in 2014. Energy-consumption levels have
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Sweden: food prices will fall, according to analyst
A Swedish supermarket is making the highest profits in Europe, but low-price chains are expected to force down prices next
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Sweden: social workers say they cannot cope
A rising number of people survive on the most basic state benefit, with the number currently at 400,000. Despite social
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Veggies often rejected because they’re ugly
It seems that grocery stores – and people – are discriminating against ugly vegetables, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports. The
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Sami character keyboard app released
Sami languages contain many special characters. Until now you have had to switch between several different language keyboards to be
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Swedish NGO delivers anti-Fennovoima petition to Finland
Members of a Swedish civic organisation collected and delivered more than 20,000 signatures from individuals protesting the proposed construction of
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