Chronicles/analysis

Is youth unemployment and school-to-work transitions the coming major issue?

Chronicles/analysis | 2012-05-01

Questions concerning youth unemployment and difficulties with school-to-work transitions remain in the political centre. However, there are claims that the statistics about young people´s unemployment...

Youth unemployment lacks political solution

Chronicles/analysis | 2012-03-28 | 2 comments

The prospects for Sweden’s youth looks dim. The latest figures show that one in five of the country´s youth is unemployed. And the effects of an early unemployment is difficult to compensate. The...

Sweden - a haven for insider traders

Chronicles/analysis | 2012-03-15

Swedish politicians have an ambition to make Stockholm a major player in the international financial sector. However, it seems like it´s a long road ahead, especially when it comes to financial supervision. Last year, around 100 cases of suspected insider trading was reported, something that lead to exactly zero legal proceedings.

The Social Democrats at a Crossroad

Chronicles/analysis | 2012-01-22 | 1 comment

It did not come as a surprise, but at last it happened. Håkan Juholt, the chairman of the Social Democrats, finally resigned and stepped down.

New Danish-Swedish front for influence in the EU?

Chronicles/analysis | 2011-10-17 | 4 comments

Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt received Denmark´s new Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt today. The current debt crisis was the main topic at the meeting. But some possible Danish-Swedish...

Juholt fighting for his political life

Chronicles/analysis | 2011-10-13 | 2 comments

The social democratic leader Håkan Juholt made a statement in an interview on public radio SR on Thursday that was crystal clear. He intends to fight for his political life and has no plans to resign....

Be aware of the angry young men

Chronicles/analysis | 2011-07-29 | 1 comment

Andreas Behring Breivik was 32 years old when he committed the awful act that have dominated the news the last week.

Hooliganism should be fought with proportional measures

Chronicles/analysis | 2011-06-01

Last week it happened again – a match in the Swedish football league Allsvenskan was interrupted due...

Social Democrats go back to their roots

Chronicles/analysis | 2011-03-26 | 1 comment

A classic social democratic speech built on traditional social democratic values. This is how the first policy speech by the...

Who was Olof Palme?

Chronicles/analysis | 2011-02-28 | 3 comments

The Social democratic leadership crisis (part 2)

Chronicles/analysis | 2011-01-14 | 2 comments

The Social democrats has been the biggest party in Sweden since the introduction of equal suffrage....

The Social democratic leadership crisis (part 1)

Chronicles/analysis | 2011-01-14

The Social democrats has been the biggest party in Sweden since the introduction of equal suffrage....

Money from congestion tax end up elsewhere

Chronicles/analysis | 2010-12-17

When the congestion tax was made permanent in Stockholm in 2007 a precondition was that the revenue...

Making people´s living habits a political issue is nothing new

Chronicles/analysis | 2010-11-14

When politicians in Stockholm decided to require special housing habits of those who move into Norra Djurgårdsstaden Stockholm, that pursues a long tradition of social engineering to influence people´s living habits.

The gossip debate may obscure the important issues

Chronicles/analysis | 2010-11-08 | 3 comments

Attempt to settle Employment Legislation Protection

Chronicles/analysis | 2010-10-08

In March 2009 the negotiations around a new agreement in style of Saltsjöbaden (1938) were suspended. The reason was mainly disagreements around the issue of Employment Protection Legislation, LAS in Sweden, which means the rules concerning employment protection, requirements for collective dismissals, priority rules and the redundancy procedures.

Musical chairs at election of Speaker of Parliament

Chronicles/analysis | 2010-10-05 | 1 comment

Yesterday was a tragicomic first day in the new parliament when the Riksdag was to elect a speaker. Three political blocs without their own majority stood against each other. But the absenteeism of one MP, another ones toilet visit, and a...

Will the Social Democratic Party and LO divorce soon?

Chronicles/analysis | 2010-09-28

The question about the relationship between the Social Democratic Party (SAP) and LO* is one of major importance for Swedish politics and the consequences of a formal divorce between the two will affect both politics and the relations at the labour market.

A new Sweden emerging?

Chronicles/analysis | 2010-09-22 | 5 comments

Does it mean something that a centre-right government was able to win for a second term in “socialist” Sweden, the stronghold of social democracy? Has Margaret Thatcher moved to Sweden? Or is it...

The Left party - towards the government?

Chronicles/analysis | 2010-09-06

Yesterday it was the chairman of the Left party, Lars Ohly’s turn to be enquired by the Swedish television. Ohly is generally considered to have done a stable performance but slipped at a few occasions. The Swedish parliamentary election will be held on September 19.

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