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Sweden
International
The party that kicked the hornets’ nest
Andrew Vandenberg
3 July 2021
The Left Party’s support for a motion from the far right has brought Sweden’s political divisions to a head
Books & arts
Northern light on Australia’s future
Ian McAuley
2 July 2021
The Nordic countries show how economies can be run differently
National affairs
The Sámi’s voice
Harry Hobbs
8 February 2021
Does Sweden’s Sámediggi offer lessons for Australia’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament?
International
So a radical-right party just had another “win.” What happens next?
Stefanie Beyens and Sofie Blombäck
15 September 2019
How the other parties react is just as important in assessing the impact of gains by the right
International
A political solution to a populist problem?
Andrew Vandenberg
23 January 2019
Four months after the national election, Sweden finally has a prime minister again
Correspondents
Nordic numbers
Mats Engström
20 September 2018
Sweden’s far-right party is big enough to cause headaches but small enough to be contained — with the right policies — by its larger rivals
International
Sweden’s mainstream resists the lure of the right
Andrew Vandenberg
17 December 2014
Faced with the unexpected electoral strength of the far-right Sweden Democrats, the major political groupings aren’t following the usual script, writes
Andrew
…
International
Far right in Europe’s far north
Andrew Vandenberg
16 September 2014
Electoral advances by the Sweden Democrats at last Sunday’s election pose a challenge to cosmopolitan Sweden
Books & arts
Norse Morse
Shane Maloney
11 April 2011
Shane Maloney
reviews a second series of Henning Mankell’s Wallander stories filmed for TV
Correspondents
If the cap no longer fits
Mats Engström
23 September 2010
Sweden’s election last weekend left the centre-right Alliance for Sweden with a slim hold on government after neither of the main alliances won a majority of votes. In…
Books & arts
Paradise lost
Peter Browne
2 April 2009
What price utopia? Two new memoirs and a series of crime novels give some clues