Europe

Inside Sweden: Becky's last day at The Local and other ...

The Local Sweden’s Deputy Editor Becky Waterton says goodbye (for now), before r...

Hungary's Orbán blocks €90 billion loan, threatening vi...

Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Dr Hanna Shelest, Director of Security Studies a...

'Polish populists have decided to turn anti&European': ...

Talking Europe travels to Warsaw to meet the mayor of the city and former presid...

Europe's housing crisis: Is the EU plan up to the job?

MEPs recently approved a key report on housing, with the stated aim of securing ...

With its wind farms, Danish island of Samsø shows path ...

The US-Israeli war against Iran has once again underlined the vulnerability of t...

Finland is world's happiest country ninth year in a row...

Finland maintains its top position as the world's happiest country for the ninth...

Migration Agency submits three lists of jobs for work p...

Sweden's Migration Agency has submitted three different lists of jobs that could...

Swedish word of the day: livmoder

Where does a human life usually grow? Why, in a "life-mother," of course.

'Heartbreaking': British schoolgirl barred from flying ...

A dual-national British schoolgirl has been left stranded on mainland Europe aft...

Orbán blocks €90bn loan, threatening vital EU support f...

Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Dr. Hanna Shelest, Director of Security Studies ...

Greek animal airlift evacuates pets and owners from Mid...

A flight carrying dozens of cats, dogs and their owners landed in Athens on Wedn...

EU leaders fail to sway Hungary's Orban on €90 billion ...

EU leaders on Thursday failed to convince Prime Minister Viktor Orban to lift hi...

Ikea to slash more than 600 jobs in Sweden

Furniture giant Ikea has announced plans to cut 945 jobs, of which 625 are based...

What does Sweden's new work permit salary threshold mea...

Sweden’s work permit salary threshold is set to rise once again from the current...

Swedish MPs recalled as government races to push throug...

Swedish lawmakers will be asked to return to parliament for extraordinary sessio...

Kharkiv's opera and ballet theatre performances continu...

Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, is just 30km from Russia and suffers alm...

Soler i Lecha: Foreign policy of Pedro Sánchez 'widely ...

As Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with European leaders, including...

Why Hungary's Viktor Orban is vilifying Ukraine before ...

Weeks before crucial parliamentary elections, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Or...

Starmer says 'focus must remain on Ukraine' despite war...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ...

'Shield for Europe: We protect not only Ukraine, but th...

As Volodymyr Zelensky meets with European leaders to strengthen Ukraine's allian...

Swedish parliament set to vote on new work permit salar...

Sweden's parliament is set to vote on Wednesday afternoon to impose in a new min...

Inquiry proposes stripping Swedish citizenship for gang...

A Swedish government inquiry has proposed stripping dual citizens of their Swedi...

Scandinavian airline SAS to cancel 'at least a thousand...

Scandinavian airline SAS is to cancel at least a thousand flights in April after...

Former Belgian diplomat first to stand trial over 1961 ...

A former Belgian diplomat has been ordered to stand trial over the 1961 murder o...

'Misguided' military operation: Trump’s appeal for Horm...

Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International R...

British photographer Mark Neville on documenting four y...

A British photographer who has spent the last four years living under near-daily...

Britain hit by ‘unprecedented’ meningitis outbreak, two...

Britain has been hit by an “unprecedented” meningitis outbreak, the country’s he...

Swedish government scraps language tests for permanent ...

Sweden's government has dropped plans to bring in compulsory language tests for ...

Almost 40,000 people had their Swedish driving licence ...

The number of people who lost their driving licence increased in Sweden in 2025.

Why the Liberals abandoned their opposition to Sweden D...

This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features analysis of the Liberal Pa...

US realising it 'needs help from allies even if all&pow...

President Donald Trump criticized US allies on March 16 for their lukewarm respo...

Are 'immature men' to blame for decreasing birth rates ...

PRESS REVIEW – Monday, March 16: French papers analyse the first round of the co...

Middle East conflict is not NATO war, but 'entwined' wi...

US President Donald Trump said he has demanded about seven countries send warshi...

Europe refuses to join Middle East war, weighs options ...

The European Union is weighing options on how to help keep the Strait of Hormuz ...

44% abstention: French local elections 'poorly attended...

Following France's lowest voter turnout since the COVID pandemic, Eve Irvine is ...

Thousands join protests across Sweden against harsher i...

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in nearly 30 locations across Sweden o...

What you should know about the EU's plan to tap your sa...

Europe is in great need of money and the EU's plan to get hold of it is to tap t...

Rare daytime Russian attack rocks Kyiv with explosions

Russia launched a rare daytime attack on Kyiv Monday, with AFP journalists repor...

Nicolas Sarkozy back in court over alleged Libyan fundi...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy returns to court on Monday to challenge ...

What's in the Liberals' 15&point deal with the Sweden D...

Here's a summary of "The Sweden Promise" – the controversial new deal between th...

Ukraine recovering from Russian strike, concerned Putin...

Ukraine is recovering from a wave of Russian strikes that killed six people and ...

Where in Europe are people likely to live longer?

Life expectancy data reveals that people are living longer in Europe on average,...

Canada and Nordics announce deepening of defence ties

Canadian and Nordic leaders on Sunday announced that they would deepen collabora...

Russian missile and drone attacks kill several across U...

Combined Russian missile and drone strikes in several Ukrainian regions killed s...

Russian missile and drone attacks kills several in Kyiv...

Four people were killed and at least 15 injured by a combined Russian missile an...

Inside Sweden: The bright side of being stuck in Sweden...

The Local Sweden’s Deputy Editor Becky Waterton reflects on the community of cit...

Sweden arrests captain of seized Russian tanker

Sweden on Friday arrested the Russian captain of a "shadow fleet" tanker seized ...

Which European countries have the toughest rules for ci...

Many countries across Europe have tightened citizenship rules in recent years, b...

How will Russia benefit from US decision to ease oil sa...

The United States has eased some restrictions on Russian oil, letting shipments ...

'Nothing strange': minister claims transitional rules u...

Sweden's migration minister Johan Forssell has defended his government's decisio...