Now it looks like more gravel has fallen into the machinery for Sweden’s attempt to join NATO. Hungarian Speaker László Kövér says that it is “not certain” that the Hungarian parliament must approve Sweden’s application for it to become valid. The latest statement from Hungary has created uncertainty about the process for Sweden’s membership in NATO. Over the weekend,... 

According to a study conducted by the polling company Ipsos on behalf of the Swedish media, fewer Swedish voters now identify as liberals than they did a year ago. The percentage of Swedish voters who identified as liberals last year was 31%; today, it is only 26%. The shift in sentiment is especially evident among supporters of the in power Moderates. The proportion of self-described liberals has... 

Turkey makes a concrete demand on Sweden that risks making the country’s NATO membership impossible. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken out about the burning of the Koran in Sweden and is now demanding that the legislation be changed. Erdogan has made it clear that he will not support Sweden’s NATO membership before the ban on blasphemy is reintroduced in Sweden. Foreign... 

The country’s “feminist foreign policy,” introduced by Sweden’s previous left-wing administration less than ten years ago, is being abandoned, according to the country’s current government. Tobias Billström, Sweden’s recently appointed foreign minister, claimed that the Social Democrats’ strategy was detrimental to Sweden’s international goals. Former... 

Click on the image to enlarge it Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recently rejected his application for asylum. “They murdered my brother...