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Wallenberg to train Swedish Left Party members in “government school”

Published 31 March 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The relationship between Jacob Wallenberg and the Left Party has at times been almost hostile.
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Swedish oligarch and financier Jacob Wallenberg has been invited to train Left Party politicians and prepare them to sit in a government after the next election, sources tell state television SVT.

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar has previously declared that the party demands a place in government if the red-green opposition wins the election next year.

However, the Left Party has no experience of government work and has never been in a government – which is why some 50 of the party’s politicians will attend a so-called “government school” this spring, where they will learn more specifically what the work entails.

However, the choice of invited trainers has surprised many. It is already clear that one of the lecturers who will help V become fit for government is the former Moderate Finance Minister Anders Borg and that the former Liberal EU Minister Cecilia Malmström is another name invited for this purpose – profiles that are otherwise very far from V ideologically.

– I think he has knowledge that is valuable to us… He has a completely different political idea than us but that is not what is relevant, but here it is the craft that is important, motivated party secretary Maria Forsberg the invitation earlier in March.

“Need to know how to interact”

According to state television, another of the “government school” coaches is none other than Investor and SEB chairman Jacob Wallenberg – one of Sweden’s most influential financiers, and patriarch of a family that indirectly controls a third of Sweden’s GDP.

“To be ready, we need to know how things work in the Government Offices, we need to know how the government interacts with business and civil society. We need to know how ministries are governed and on what signals authorities act“, writes V in an internal information email.

It can be noted that the two parties have had a rather hostile relationship in the past, with Jacob Wallenberg publicly expressing concern in 2014 that the red-green parties would come to power – to which then-V leader Jonas Sjöstedt countered that the oligarch “only thinks about his own profits“.

Socialist V has also traditionally been the Swedish parliamentary party most critical of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and the Wallenberg sphere’s influence over Swedish politics – but more radical party members argue that the party has made a clear “right turn” under Dadgostar’s leadership and has sharply toned down its anti-capitalist rhetoric in recent years.

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https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/swedish-climate-extremists-who-blocked-ambulance-acquitted-by-supreme-court/

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Swedish climate extremists who blocked ambulance acquitted by Supreme Court

The exaggerated climate crisis

Published 11 July 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Police remove the road blockade in August 2022.
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A nearly three-year legal process concluded this week when all activists from Restore Wetlands (Återställ Våtmarker) were acquitted for blocking the E4 motorway in August 2022, which in addition to causing long traffic jams also delayed an ambulance on an emergency call.

According to Sweden’s Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen), the road blockade was not comparable to the threats against vital societal interests required by law for a conviction of sabotage, and therefore acquitted all participants in the climate alarmist group’s action. The Supreme Court particularly emphasized the importance of freedom of demonstration and freedom of expression in a ruling that will serve as guidance for how civil disobedience should be punished, which in practice opens the door for more motorway blockades.

– The legal situation has been unclear regarding what constitutes a serious disruption or obstruction in these cases. It’s good that we now have clear guidance from the Supreme Court on how prosecutions for sabotage should be assessed in the future, says Chief Prosecutor Katarina Johansson Welin in the Supreme Court’s press release.

The group itself describes its action as an “act of love”.

– Victory! Today we celebrate that the sabotage charge has been shot down for the last time. In my heart, I have always known that I acted exactly right. To sit peacefully and openly on a motorway and demand that emissions decrease is among the strongest acts of love for our children and for life that you can do, and we did exactly that, says one of those acquitted in the climate group’s press release.

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https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/green-party-economist-good-that-fewer-children-are-born-in-sweden/

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Green Party economist: Good that fewer children are born in Sweden

The exaggerated climate crisis

Published 11 July 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The Green Party politician Lennart Olsen sees children as an unnecessary burden on the economy and the environment.
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That fewer children are born in Sweden is only good for the environment, argues Green Party (Miljöpartiet) politician Lennart Olsen. Children and young people also cost more than older people, who can still work at higher ages if the pension age is raised, he adds.

Olsen writes in a debate article in the Bonnier publication Dagens Nyheter that people should view positively the fact that Swedes are not reproducing themselves.

“What’s needed here is a reversed perspective, where lower birth rates and eventually decreasing population should be welcomed to reduce the exploitation of the earth’s ecosystems“.

The Green Party member believes that the Swedish government’s investigation aimed at proposing measures to raise the very low birth rates in Sweden is “misguided”. He argues that the state can save money from fewer children being born.

“For the state’s and municipal sector’s economy, children and young people are a much greater expense than the elderly. This is because virtually all people between 0 and 20 years old cost a lot of money in the form of preschool, school, higher education, parental insurance, child allowance and more“, Olsen explains his thesis and argues that older people also won’t need as much pension if the retirement age is raised further.

Above all, the Green Party economist sees the possibility that fewer Swedish children will lead to a better climate in the long term.

“The positive effects of such a development can then also take effect and lead to reduced pressure on the earth’s ecosystems“, writes Olsen.

Olsen represents a so-called neo-Malthusian line, an ideological movement that strives for reduced population and strongly influences the climate alarmist movement.

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https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/swedens-christian-democrats-call-for-tax-relief-for-families-with-children/

Sweden

Sweden’s Christian Democrats call for tax relief for families with children

Published 10 July 2025
– By Editorial Staff
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Swedish families with children should receive tax relief, according to the same model as Hungary. This is proposed by Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch.

The catastrophically low birth rate has recently become a topic of discussion even among Swedish politicians. Childbirth in Sweden is at historically low levels. During 2023, an average of 1.43 children were born per woman – the lowest figure ever recorded. The standing solution advocated among Swedish politicians has been to bring foreigners to Sweden to replace the population.

The leader of the Christian Democrats Ebba Busch proposes on this theme to follow the Hungarian model, where families with children receive significant tax relief that increases for each child. The principle is to make it easier for one or later both parents to support themselves through work instead of benefits.

If current birth rate trends continue in Sweden, each new generation will be approximately 30 percent smaller than the previous one, which means major consequences including for the labor market and welfare system when fewer people of working age must support a growing elderly population.

 

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https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/almost-total-halt-for-imported-berry-pickers-in-sweden/

Sweden

Almost total halt for imported berry pickers in Sweden

Published 8 July 2025
– By Editorial Staff
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The Swedish Migration Agency has rejected almost all applications for berry pickers for 2025. As recently as 2023, 5,000 permits were granted.

Citing years of indications that employment conditions in the berry industry are not being upheld, the Migration Agency has granted only 89 permits for berry picking this year. A total of 2,397 applications for berry pickers have been received for 2025.

Last year, the Migration Agency rejected all applications for berry pickers, but 1,272 applications were subsequently approved after court review.

– The Migration Agency has also this year assessed that workers in the berry industry risk not having their employment conditions met. Therefore, the agency has decided to reject most of the applications for Thai berry pickers, says Hanna Geurtsen, Deputy Project Manager for Work Permits at the Migration Agency, in a press release.

This year, the Migration Agency explains, all employers active in berry picking have chosen to apply for permits via the EU’s Seasonal Workers Directive. The difference when applying for a work permit as a seasonal worker, compared with the national main track for work permits, is among other things that the berry pickers this year are directly employed by a company in Sweden and not via a foreign staffing agency.

– It’s partly about having an employment contract signed by both parties and that the employment conditions must be in line with Swedish collective agreements. For the majority of the applications received this year, these requirements have not been met, says Hanna Geurtsen.

The berry companies that have been rejected have the possibility to appeal these decisions in court, the agency adds in its press release.

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Number of berry picking permits granted by the Migration Agency in recent years:

2025: 89
2024: 0 (1,272 were approved after court review)
2023: 5,372
2022: 6,594
2021: 5,175

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