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Published 11 September 2024 at 12.01 Law & Justice. A new survey from the trade union Akavia shows that a majority of Sweden's judges feel that they do not have time to complete their duties within regular working hours. Share the article TwittraShare By of the roughly 1,400 ordinary judges in Sweden, 705 participated in…

Published 11 September 2024 at 13.58 Domestic. The government and the Sweden Democrats want to spend several billions on the justice system next year. At the same time, it is proposed that new police officers have their student loans paid by the state, the government announced at a press conference. Share the article TwittraShare According…

Published 11 September 2024 at 14:31 EU. IT giant Apple has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to repay 13 billion euros in unpaid taxes to Ireland. Google is also sentenced in a separate case where a fine of 2.4 billion euros is determined, because Google has abused its market dominance. Share the…

Published 11 September 2024 at 16.02 Domestic. New statistics show that the number of deaths due to suicide in the EU has decreased by 13.3 percent between 2011 and 2021. At the same time, the number of suicides in Sweden rose by 11 percent, according to Eurostat. Share the article TwittraShare In 2021, 47,346 suicides…

Published 10 September 2024 at 14.02 Foreign. An Israeli sniper shot American peace activist Aysenur Eygi, 26, in the head as she participated in a demonstration against Israeli settlements, Al Jazeera reports. The incident is the latest in which Israel's defense forces have attacked Americans after the United States tightened its stance against the country…

Published 10 September 2024 at 14.45 Economy. At 2 pm on Friday, the Svea Court of Appeal announced its verdict in what has been called the “prosecution of the century” in business – the trial against Swedbank's former CEO Birgitte Bonnesen. The district court's acquittal was overturned by the Court of Appeal and the bank…

Published 10 September 2024 at 14.58 Foreign. After AFD and Sahra Wagenknecht's success in the election, the German government is now abandoning the bloody line that Sweden and the majority of EU countries have towards Russia, which amounts to 100 percent military confrontation. Berlin will now instead participate in peace negotiations shortly, announced the country's…

Published 10 September 2024 at 16.26 Foreign. According to a new report from Informa Connect, Elon Musk is predicted to become the world's first billionaire by 2027, thanks to his success in the space race and the technology industry. Share the article TwittraShare Musk, who currently has a fortune of $237 billion according to the…

Published 10 September 2024 at 17.23 Foreign. A middle-aged woman in Great Britain has been awarded SEK 4.7 million in damages after an employment tribunal found that she was discriminated against because of her gender when she received criticism at work despite being pregnant. Share Article TwittraShare Nicola Hinds, former regional manager of Mitie, sued…

Published September 9, 2024 at 08:28 Media. Journalist and author Chris Forsne has participated in an interview with Swebbtv where she talks about her many years in foreign affairs coverage on state-run Swedish Television and about her experiences of the intellectual climate in journalistic circles. Share the article TwittraShare – I remember when I said…

Published 9 September 2024 at 09.47 Domestic. The Social Democrats want to make it possible for the police to use covert means of coercion, such as wiretapping, also against children under 15 years of age. Share the article TwittraShare The proposal comes after what the party describes as an acute national crisis where more and…

Published 9 September 2024 at 11.42 Domestic. The blood sugar-lowering medicine Ozempic works well against certain types of diabetes – but also for obese people who want to lose weight without exercising or changing their diet. Now online pharmacies sell the Danish medicine to anyone, SVT reports, while diabetics have difficulty getting their doses. Share…

Published 9 September 2024 at 11.51 Foreign. In California, more than 35,000 houses are threatened by a large forest fire east of Los Angeles. It is a wooded area near the city of San Bernardino that is burning and according to the Los Angeles Times the fire is 70 square kilometers in size. Share the…

Published 9 September 2024 at 14.07 Economy. After the summer's attention-grabbing insider scandal, the Stockholm Stock Exchange refrained from appealing FI's fine and instead kindly transferred the requested SEK 100 million to the authority's account, writes Dagens Industri. Share the articleTwittraShare Nasdaq, which runs the Stockholm Stock Exchange, however, believes that it has done nothing…

Published 9 September 2024 at 15.42 Domestic. Sweden will spend another 4.6 billion kroner on the war in Ukraine, the government announced at a press conference on Monday. Share the article TwittraShare With support package number 17 in the order, Sweden has contributed SEK 48.1 billion in military support to Ukraine since Russia's invasion of…

Published 9 September 2024 at 17.51 Foreign. After two and a half years of a war of attrition, morale is now dropping rapidly in the Ukrainian army, CNN reports. Ukrainian politicians are now forced to make concessions where those who desert the first time escape punishment. Share the article TwitterShare The channel has spoken to…

Published 8 September 2024 at 09.54 Domestic. In Uddevalla, SD has decided that Swedish home cooking will be served every day, while “special food” will disappear for those who refuse to eat pork for religious reasons. Share the article TwittraShare – I think it's a bit racist and degrading towards those of us who don't…

Published 8 September 2024 at 12.23 Foreign. German investigators accuse Poland of sabotaging the Nordstream sabotage investigation two years ago, Politico reports. Among other things, Polish authorities allowed a suspected perpetrator to slip home to Ukraine and refused to hand over video recordings from a navy, according to the German intelligence service BND. Share the…

Published 8 September 2024 at 13.34 Foreign. Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, somewhat surprisingly chose to plead guilty to all nine charges in a tax fraud trial on Thursday, American CBS reports. Share the article TwittraShare The confession was made in a Los Angeles court where the jury was just beginning to…

Published 8 September 2024 at 14.45 Domestic. Studieförbundet Ibn Rushd has finally got rid of its grants, after a decision by the Swedish Education Council which caused several other authorities to make similar decisions. Now the debater Johan Westerholm has published a survey of how the association used money from several different authorities to maximize…

Published 8 September 2024 at 16.57 Domestic. A bodyguard at the Security Police got stuck in the security checkpoint at Bromma airport when a folding knife was found in his bag. Now he is being prosecuted for breaking the knife law, writes Dagens Juridik. Share the article TwittraShare The police themselves say that he missed…

Published 8 September 2024 at 17.19 Economics. According to Swedish Real Estate Statistics, the prices of condominiums decreased nationally by 0.6 percent and house prices by 0.2 percent in August. Share the article TwittraShare However, the statistics spread . Stormalmö recorded the largest price increase for condominiums with 1.4 percent, while Greater Stockholm saw a…

Published 7 September 2024 at 09.04 Domestic. The villa in Älvsjö that was fired upon on Friday contained no threatened persons. Instead, it was a so-called mistaken shooting, according to the family who lives there. Share the article TwittraShare – They have gone to the wrong damn house. We are the kindest, nicest family in…

Published 7 September 2024 at 10.36 Domestic. A 50-year-old Arab passport officer at the police authority in Norrköping is charged with serious falsification of documents after producing seven fake passports. Share the article TwittraShare Two people who did not are police employees are also charged with serious falsification of documents, primarily as accomplices and secondarily…