| "Should Be a Limit on Student Loans" The National Board of Student Aid wants to institute an upper limit on how much a student can loan. Otherwise, its writes, taxpayers will have to stand for upwards of 14 million dollars of student loan debts per year starting in 2030. sr.se |
Bildt Hopeful after Afghan Election Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is hopeful for the future of Afghanistan after having spoken to main candidates in the presidential election which was held in the country two weeks ago. "The signals I am getting from the three main candidates gives me reason to have pretty good hopes for the future," Bildt told Swedish Radio on Tuesday.Carl Bildt is in Kabul to see for himself the follow up to the elections, and also to be able to bring the latest news about the situation in Afghanistan to his colleagues at the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Stockholm later this week. sr.se |
Writer Guillou admits KGB connection Prominent Swedish author and journalist Jan Guillou had liaisons spanning five years with the Soviet intelligence service in the 1960s. Guillou maintains he was trying to reveal how the KGB was operating in Sweden. thelocal.se |
High price put on Facebook head A person from Värmland, western Sweden, contacted police after realising a 20,000 kronor ($2920) reward had been offered in return for their life on the social networking site Facebook. thelocal.se |
Letter to the Editor: UK MPs back Sweden over Palestinian capital As EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels to debate the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations, a group of British MPs have come out in support of a Swedish proposal to establish East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. thelocal.se |