TOP 100 SWEDISH SITES
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| Greenpeace Continues Boulder Drop On Monday, Greenpeace dropped forty granite boulders into the Kattegatt, a straight between Sweden and Denmark on the west coast. The environmental group, which plans to drop a total of 180 one to three ton boulders in the area, has strewn the rocks in order to hinder bottom trawling by fishing boats.The Swedish government, however, is not amused, saying that the action threatens successful fishing agreements with neighboring Denmark. While Greenpeace wants Sweden to take action to protect the marine ecosystem, the government holds that international cooperation is the only possible way to preserve marine environments. sr.se |
Police Tactics in Suburb Violence Some of Sweden’s bigger city suburbs have been exploding in violence fueled mostly by teenagers – many with foreign backgrounds feeling hostile to a Sweden that seems to keep them on the fringe of society. Gothenburg, Malmö, and Uppsala have been especially hard-hit, but Stockholm suburbs haven't seen the same number of incidents. Can this have anything to do with differing police tactics? sr.se |
Opposition touts state authorities' merger savings Sweden's opposition parties want to merge a number of state authorities in a restructuring move they say will save one billion kronor. thelocal.se |
The day the milk stood still It's not really the government that runs Sweden. Nor is it the police, the Royal Family or the largely interchangeable bearded dudes from Abba. It is the people who print the little best-before dates on all food and drink items, writes Paddy Kelly. thelocal.se |
Hat-trick of Swedish universities make world top 100 Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University and Stockholm University have made the grade in a new list of the world's top 100 higher education establishments. thelocal.se |