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Dec 8, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Charlie Duxbury
UDDEVALLA, Sweden — The downward slide of the Social Democrats in the Swedish town of Uddevalla arguably started at 1:19 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1986. With a crash, the mighty gantry crane that had long loomed above the town’s shipyard came down in a plume of dust as thousands of mournful locals watched on. The shipyard was replaced with a Volvo car plant — which itself closed in 2013, taking with it what was left of the town’s industrial heart.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
welt.de | Charlie Duxbury
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
welt.de | Dirk Banse |Charlie Duxbury |Laura Kayali |Ulrich Kraetzer |Stuart Lau |Christian Schweppe
Russlands Kampf gegen den WestenPutin wird nach der Ukraine nicht stoppen, sondern seine Attacken fortsetzen, im Baltikum oder woanders – so sehen es Militärs und Geheimdienstler. Schon jetzt führt er einen Schattenkrieg, auch gegen Deutschland, wie Recherchen von WELT AM SONNTAG und „Politico“ zeigen. Jeder Verdacht zahlt ein auf das Konto der Angst vor russischen Attacken.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Charlie Duxbury
VÄSTERÅS, Sweden — An onion-domed spire rises above surrounding trees into a cloudless fall sky. A high fence tracks the perimeter and signs warn of CCTV coverage. At the sound of a passing car, a dog runs out from behind a parked minibus within the enclosure and barks through the closed entrance gate.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Charlie Duxbury
MOSS, Norway — Christer Nersund was at his lakeside home on the edge of the Norwegian town of Moss one night last winter when he heard the shots. Nersund, a 38-year-old advertising manager, thought it was a car accident at first. But as he saw emergency vehicles racing toward a nearby sports hall and park, he realized it was something more serious. Across the water, Swedish gangsters had tracked down a rival and tried to kill him, police reports suggest.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Charlie Duxbury
SÖDERTÄLJE, Sweden — A person dressed all in black hurled a hand grenade into a shop in the crime-ridden suburb of Geneta in the Swedish city of on Södertälje on July 22. Several bystanders were injured and one woman in her 50s had to be airlifted to the hospital. Only a day later, a man was shot and injured on a street nearby. The spate of gang violence is all part of a brutal summer that spells trouble for Sweden’s government.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Charlie Duxbury
STOCKHOLM — Welcome to Tegeluddsvägen 29A, a nondescript office block on the edge of Stockholm and an emerging must-visit stop for European defense officials trying to figure out how to get more people into uniform.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Charlie Duxbury |Bartosz Brzezinski
VÕRU, Estonia — The signs of a creeping militarization are easy to detect. In this small town 23 miles from the European Union’s border with Russia, trucks painted army green trundle over the cobbles of the main street. In a bar near the central square, off-duty U.S. servicemen watch basketball and soccer on dueling TV screens. Across a placid lake, a patch of forest is being cleared for the expansion of a military training area.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Aitor Hernández-Morales |Koen Verhelst |Charlie Duxbury |Nektaria Stamouli |Ketrin Jochecová |Victor Jack | +12 more
When EU voters head to the polls later this week, one thing is certain: Almost none of them will be thinking of Europe when they cast their ballot. A plethora of studies — and sky-high abstention rates — show that most of the bloc’s citizens neither understand nor care about the European Parliament vote. Because of this, they tend to vote based on domestic concerns instead of Brussels politics.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Charlie Duxbury
The first time anybody realized Johan Floderus had been arrested was when he didn’t get off the plane. The 33-year-old Swedish diplomat had arrived at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport to fly home after a week visiting friends in Iran. It took several days for his friends and family to work out he was in the feared Evin Prison — and more than a year before his arrest was made public.
