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Electricity prices jump across Sweden today

Time-based tariffs expose households directly to Tuesday's sharp spot-price increase, with southern Sweden facing the highest evening costs.

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Sweden's election remains open after three-seat margin

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Power & Consequence

Multiple Swedish party ballots sit in racks inside an empty ballot-selection stand.

Power & Consequence

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‘100% from now’: pregnancy still closes workplace doors

Editorial illustration of an anonymous woman raising her hand toward three listeners across a translucent barrier.

Power & Consequence

Born in Sweden, but furthest from power

Swedish police officers check vehicles at the Öresund Bridge border-control lanes in Malmö.

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Swedish police still stop people on a gut feeling

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Simona Mohamsson speaks with a headset microphone on a Liberal Party stage at Almedalen in June 2025.

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From hugging Åkesson to borrowing his climate excuse

Magdalena Andersson walks toward the Riksdag on 24 November 2021.

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Dear Magda, it is okay to be angry about men's mediocrity

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DailySweden view

The Social Democrats’ failure to draw ideological lines might cost them the election

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Tidö cannot sort immigrants into good and bad without dividing Sweden

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