The Sweden Democrats criticize the government's Middle East policy. There is also criticism within the government parties. Several heavy Christian Democrats believe that the measures against Israel are too far-reaching. But party secretary Liza-Maria Norlin states: KD stands behind the government's proposal.
Swedish politicsThe SD party leader Jimmie Åkesson criticizes the government's demand that the EU freezes the trade agreement with Israel. "This is actually a fiasco", Åkesson writes on X. Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) responds: "The suffering in Gaza is immense".
Swedish politicsThe Liberals' Simona Mohamsson will be the only party leader from the government who participates in this year's pride parade in Stockholm.
Swedish politicsUnder this year's Almedals week in Visby, the Social Democrats' Magdalena Andersson attracted the most listeners during the party leader speeches.
SwedenThe Social Democratic Party is selling its criticized lottery business, Kombispel. It is due to the government's new opposition tax, says the Social Democratic Party's party secretary Tobias Baudin.
Swedish politicsThe Nazi network White Aryan Resistance participated as unofficial guards during SD demonstrations in the 1990s. This – and several other points – emerge in SD's white paper on the party's dark history.
SwedenChrister Mattsson, head of the Segerstedt Institute, has read the Sweden Democrats' noted white paper. He describes it as detailed and thorough – but without analysis. The interesting thing is what you do with the heritage, what has emerged, he says to TT.
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