A group of thirteen former Nordic foreign and defence ministers has issued a joint letter to European leaders, urging immediate action to prevent war crimes and avert a catastrophic humanitarian ...

The Local's deputy editor Becky Waterton rounds up the biggest stories of the week in our Inside Sweden newsletter.

A thaw in the citizenship freeze, new law bans ordering sex acts online. For Membership+ subscribers: Interview with doctor facing expulsion over alleged Migration Agency mix-up, and how to celebrate ...

Sweden's Migration Agency on Friday announced a radical overhaul of how citizenship applications are handled, with the applications that have waited longest now put right at the front of the queue.

Please don't forget that there are real people behind the Migration Agency's case numbers, a reader of The Local writes in an appeal to Swedish decision-makers.

Sweden's employment and integration minister said on Thursday that he intended to chart "Islamist infiltration" in his country, following a report sounding the alarm about the Muslim Brotherhood in ...

Sweden's intelligence service said on Friday it was lowering its terror alert level from "high threat" to "elevated threat", saying the risk of an attack had subsided.

New security rules for citizenship mean that applicants now need to turn up at the Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) in person to confirm their identity. How will this process work?

Sweden's Migration Agency is completely overhauling the way it handles citizenship cases, with those who have waited longest now handled first, in response to criticism of "unreasonably long ...

The Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) has begun contacting citizenship applicants to book in-person identity checks, effectively ending a near two-month freeze on approvals for standard ...

Only one ex-Northvolter finds job through scheme, gull captured on suspicion of spying and weather agency issues snow warning. Here's Sweden's news on Thursday.

Swedish public broadcasters warn they are being 'gradually dismantled', Swedish MEP accused Left Party official of 'politically motivated' attack, and other news from Sweden on Friday.