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  • 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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