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12 Jan 2025 2 minute read 6 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In the article "Utbildning allt starkare markör hos Svenska väljare" ("Education as an Increasingly Strong Marker Among Swedish Voters") published via the progressive think tank Dagens Arena, author Olle Bergvall highlights how education has bec...
2 Dec 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
In September, Maria Malmer Stenergard, the former migration minister in Sweden and now the current external affairs minister, made several controversial and, more or less, bigoted statements about immigration and immigrants. She said, among other t...
27 Nov 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR The 2016 study "Populist Radical Right Protectors of the Folkhem" by Adrian Norocel examines how the Sweden Democrats (SD) have co-opted the folkhem concept to promote welfare chauvinism. By promoting the restriction of public welfare to nat...
25 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In collaboration with other NGOs, the Civil Rights Defenders (CRD) authored a report for the UN Universal Periodic Review assessing Sweden’s human rights performance. The report highlights challenges in protecting minority rights, safeguarding...
26 Aug 2023 3 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic
During the 2022 general elections in Sweden, I wrote about some political parties outside the Swedish parliament. One of the parties I wrote about is Nyans (Shade): One party that is also making headlines at the moment is Shade (Nyans), with Islamist...
20 Aug 2023 1 minute read 4 comments Vladan Lausevic
In Sweden, burning a book, regardless of its content, is allowed and not illegal in principle. Saying and writing that people should be burned or killed is illegal and recognized as a criminal offense.However, much of the debate is also if a law...
1 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
This post is based on an article written by Olle Waestberg, a former active member of the Liberal Party and one of the leading experts in democracy in Sweden. Apart from the Sweden Democrats, all political parties in the Swedish parliament have ch...
28 Sep 2021 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
At about 04:45 local time, an explosion and subsequent fire took place at an apartment block in Gothenburg, Sweden, resulting in the evacuation of about 100 residents and the injuries of over a dozen people. According to Swedish police, 16 people wer...
26 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments MintDice.com
Bitcoin is a new technology, and just like with any other new technology that has hit the market over the course of the last few decades, there are always a few rough spots to iron out. And this time the rough spots being discussed aren’t about Bitc...
23 Aug 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Austras
This is a funny and bizarre story which shows how important it is to understand rules before applying them. This took place over the last four years in Sweden, I've linked the articles about the two men selling drugs for bitcoin and will basically su...
