January brought winter to almost the entire country - and in the north it was bitterly cold. According to SMHI, Pajala has not experienced such a cold two-week period since measurements began in 1940. Uppsala had its wettest January in 300 years.
SwedenVattenfall management and Energy Minister Ebba Busch (KD) are being summoned to the Riksdag's Economic Affairs Committee after the announcement of sharply increased electricity network fees. There is a limit somewhere, says the Left Party's Birger Lahti.
BusinessThe opposition, not entirely unexpectedly, gives the government a failing grade for the nuclear power proposal. Even the S, which does not have any principled opposition to new reactors, thinks that one is being offered a pig in a poke – that is, without knowing what one gets.
Swedish politicsThe government's decision to override Kiruna Municipality regarding the establishment of a new graphite mine sparks anger. "They still see us as some kind of colony or oil platform, where they just extract everything but don't send anything back," says Mats Taaveniku (S), chairman of the municipal council, to TT.
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