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  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Special ReportFT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Nordic companies lead the charge on electric vehicles

    Sustainability focus and early adoption of tech drives FT1000-ranked businesses’ progress

  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Sweden to increase defence spending sharply to 3.5% of GDP

    Rise funded largely through borrowing will pay for biggest rearmament since cold war, says prime minister

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  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Nobel prizes
    Nobel chief warns of growing threat to science and free inquiry

    Nobel foundation director’s comments come as Trump cracks down on leading research agencies

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  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Swedish companies join forces to steer children away from gang crime

    Dozens of big businesses from Ikea to Spotify back youth job initiatives as country grapples with epidemic of violence

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  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Sweden to expand arms and space capabilities without US

    Stockholm still values co-operation with Washington but backs stronger European pillar of Nato, defence minister says

    Gripen fighter jet
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    HTSIThe best men’s shirts, shoes – and capes – for summer 2025
    Our Legacy – the stealth brand you need to know

    The Swedish fashion label has just received LVMH investment. Can it keep its edge?

    From left: Our Legacy co-owners Richardos Klarén, Cristopher Nying and Jockum Hallin in the Milan showroom
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
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    Learning the Swedish art of ‘wild skating’

    Across frozen lakes — or out in the archipelago — skating in Stockholm is very different to the ice rink back home

    A group of skaters seen from a distance on a frozen lake
  • Saturday, 15 February, 2025
    FT Magazine
    The far-left kidnapping plot that reads like a real-life thriller

    A pioneering Swedish politician and the story of a time when Europe teetered on the edge of chaos

    A sombre faded black and white portrait of Anna-Greta Leijon leaning forward with her hands clasped superimposed over a sepia shadowy headshot of Norbert Kröcher
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    Sweden probes ‘foreign power’ link in death of anti-Islam activist

    Intelligence services investigating death of Iraqi refugee who burnt several copies of the Koran in 2023

    Salwan Momika speaks in Malmo in September 2023
  • Sunday, 26 January, 2025
    Baltic Sea data cable damaged in latest case of potential sabotage

    Disruption of line between Sweden and Latvia follows earlier incidents linked to Russia and China

    An Estonian naval ship taking part in boosted Nato patrols in the Baltic Sea in January 2025 following suspected sabotage of undersea cables
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
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    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

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  • 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
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