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              Sweden

              • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
                Elisabeth Braw
                Undersea sabotage response is a dangerous business

                Holding shady sailors to account would be a lot less perilous than risking war with a powerful nation

                oil tanker Eagle S at sea outside Porkkalanniemi, Finland.
              • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
                Sweden criticises China for refusing full access to vessel suspected of cable sabotage

                Swedish public prosecutor denied permission to board Yi Peng 3 despite open investigation

                Yi Peng 3
              • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
                Business InsightRichard Milne
                Lessons from an unusual corporate succession plan

                The Wallenbergs hope more openness can avoid pitfalls suffered by other family

                Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg
              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
                Financial services
                Klarna fined $50mn and reprimanded by Swedish regulator

                Buy now, pay later specialist found to have broken anti-money laundering rules

                The Klarna website on a laptop screen
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                Business InsightRichard Milne
                Troubled Northvolt may struggle to find a buyer

                The one-time great European hope for the battery industry faces an uphill task to secure a financial rescue

                Northvolt former CEO Peter Carlsson at the Northvolt gigafactory near the town of Skellefteå, near the Arctic circle in Northern Sweden.
              • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
                Geopolitics
                Chinese ship linked to cable sabotage urged to move into Swedish waters

                Stockholm steps up probe after two lines were cut in Baltic Sea

                Chinese bulk carrier  Yi Peng 3 in the Kattegat, Denmark, on November 20 2024
              • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
                Northvolt AB
                Battery start-up Northvolt files for bankruptcy protection in US

                Europe’s big hope for homegrown manufacturing has struggled with production at its factory in northern Sweden

                Workers at the Northvolt gigafactory near the town of Skellefteå, near the Arctic circle in northern Sweden
              • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
                China
                Chinese vessel spotted where Baltic Sea cables were severed

                Swedish investigators looking into movements of bulk carrier travelling from Russia to Egypt

                A submarine telecommunications cable being laid on the bottom of the Baltic Sea
              • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
                Germany
                Severing of Baltic Sea cables likely to be sabotage, Germany says

                Defence minister Boris Pistorius says it is unclear who was responsible for ‘hybrid’ warfare tactic

                Boris Pistorius speaks to the press, surrounded by microphones from various media outlets
              • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
                Transport
                Private jet emissions soar almost 50% in four years

                High use of aviation ‘taxis’ for big events such as World Cup, Davos — and climate summits, study finds

                general view of Zurich Kloten Airport upon the arrival of the private and VIP planes of the participants within the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting held in Davos, in Zurich, Switzerland
              • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
                FT Magazine
                The case of Sweden versus Satan’s minions

                Swedes love well-defined standard operating procedures. Even when it’s a häxprocess, or witch trial

                An illustration of an accused witch going through the judgement trial, where she is dunked in water to prove her guilt of practising witchcraft
              • Monday, 28 October, 2024
                Jacob Wallenberg
                The Wallenbergs start succession to sixth generation

                The three cousins leading the $660bn Swedish business empire want more family members involved and, for the first time, women

                Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg
              • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
                Prime property
                Gothenburg reaches for the skies

                The new 74-storey Karlatornet tower is leading the way as the Swedish city embraces a radical but controversial transformation

                A cityscape, at sunrise, with many low-level buildings and one golden coloured skyscraper rising in the centre of the image, a river to the left of the image, with a modern bridge in the distance
              • Monday, 7 October, 2024
                FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
                House museums #87: Wilhelmina and Walther von Hallwyl, Stockholm

                Amid the Baroque luxury is an eclectic — and at times brilliantly bizarre — collection that mixes Swedish, Dutch and Flemish masters with holiday souvenirs and everyday ephemera

                At the centre of a large sand-coloured and ornate house is a courtyard seating area, full of plants
              • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
                LexNuclear energy
                Nuclear finance will rely on consumers’ stomach for risk

                Projects prove too tricky to fund through normal financing methods

                Employees look up at the construction site of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, England
              • Monday, 16 September, 2024
                Northvolt AB
                Swedish PM rules out government rescue of troubled Northvolt

                Battery start-up struggles to gain backing for latest fundraising amid Europe’s slowing take-up of electric vehicles

                A worker outside Northvolt’s gigafactory in Skellefteå, north Sweden
              • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
                Sweden says rooting out gangs will take a decade

                Justice minister warns that criminals are recruiting children for extremist groups abroad

                Gunnar Strömmer speaks at a press conference in Stockholm. Behind him are Swedish flags.
              • Monday, 9 September, 2024
                Lex
                Sweden’s industrial companies are sending up a flare on global growth Premium content

                Limp purchasing managers’ indices in July and poor figures for new orders hint that Europe is heading for broader slowdown

                A flag outside the Riksbank headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden
              • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
                HTSI
                A Stockholm time-capsule gallery, revived by a London decorator

                Designer Beata Heuman has brought sculptor Carl Eldh’s studio into the present 

                Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum director Sara Bourke (left) in front of Brita Eldh’s piano in the museum with interior designer Beata Heuman
              • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
                ReviewFilm
                Paradise Is Burning — Swedish sisters capture spirit of Brat summer

                Mika Gustafson’s defiantly uncutesy film follows three canny girls whose mother has gone Awol

                A young girl covered in meat-blood screams in a supermarket
              • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Ukraine’s Kursk invasion ‘devastating’ for Putin, says Sweden

                Foreign minister Tobias Billström says incursion into Russian region has more political than territorial value

                A Ukrainian soldier walks down a deserted street
              • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
                Currencies
                The krone conundrum

                Welcome to the crown show

              • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
                Sveriges Riksbank
                Sweden’s Riksbank sees case for further rate cuts

                Low inflation gives monetary policymakers more room to boost ailing economy after 25bp cut to 3.5%

                A flag outside the Riksbank headquarters in Stockholm
              • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
                Europe Express
                Sweden breaks with its liberal past on migration Premium content

                EU governments face awkward choices over asylum-seekers, labour market shortages and integration of newcomers

                Migrants are guided onto a boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa
              • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
                The Big Read
                Can Sweden deliver its much hyped green energy boom?

                Abundant electricity in the north was supposed to power a new wave of industrialisation. But projects are struggling to scale up

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