There has been a full-blown political row over maternity care since staff at the maternity hospital in Malmö raised the alarm about how austerity measures are affecting their working situation. Now the Social Democrats are demanding that the government, as the party puts it, restore 600 million kronor to care for newborns and their mothers.
Swedish politicsTop Moderate (M) politician Christian Sonesson and five other politicians in Staffanstorp have been acquitted of suspicion of gross misconduct. The politicians were charged over a political decision to stop receiving quota refugees.
Swedish politicsThe Moderate Party top Christian Sonesson and five additional municipal politicians in Staffanstorp are prosecuted for gross misconduct. "The defendants have seriously abused their position as municipal politicians", says prosecutor Magdalena Petersson.
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