Ursula von der Leyen's heaviest commissioners are being questioned when the EU Parliament is now concluding its hearings. But no one is either approved or stopped directly – as the candidates are being held as "hostages" by anxious party groups.
WorldWe surround ourselves with electrical gadgets. Many of them we don't use but still let them remain in cupboards and drawers. 8,000 tons of small electronics end up in the trash every year – and then it's crucial that they end up in the right place.
SwedenSoon, Swedish soldiers and officers from P7 in Skåne will be sent to Latvia to join the multinational NATO force. This is historic, says Latvia's Defense Minister Andris Spruds, when he visits Revingehed to meet those who will be leaving.
Swedish politicsThe audit has been initiated by Jessika Roswall and her intended colleagues in the next EU Commission. In a month, tough committee hearings await – and a political game where no one is safe.
WorldThe discussion about banning all international adoptions because there is a risk that children will fare poorly gives a strange image of adoptees. This is what Alexander Forselius thinks, who himself was adopted to Sweden from Romania as a child. You brand all adoption as suspected child trafficking, he says.
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