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1 week ago | thelocal.com | Claudia Delpero |Europe Street

In recent months, several countries in Europe have announced plans, or said they are at least considering, new rules on obtaining citizenship. In Sweden, an inquiry recently proposed extending the residency requirement to eight years from the current five, and since April 1st, the Migration Agency has toughened security checks on applicants, which led to a temporary freeze on the processing of applications.

2 weeks ago | thelocal.com | Claudia Delpero |Europe Street

Who would have thought that a tiny town in Luxembourg would have become famous for giving the name to a visa and to the largest free travel area in the world? That is Schengen, where forty years ago, on June 14th 1985, five European countries signed a convention to “gradually abolish” internal borders checks and allow their citizens to travel around freely. Here is the story of those events and what has happened next. How did it start?

2 weeks ago | thelocal.com | Emma Löfgren

Airport food is usually notorious for being expensive and low-quality, but sometimes we have no choice – and there are exceptions. What are your tips for people travelling through Sweden's busiest airport? To have your say, please fill out the survey below – or click here if it doesn't appear for you. We may use your answers in a future article on The Local, and we reserve the right to edit comments for length, clarity and house style.

3 weeks ago | thelocal.com

From dangerous diet tips to disinformation, cyberbullying to hate speech, the glut of online content harmful to children grows every day. But several European countries now want to limit minors’ access to social media.

3 weeks ago | thelocal.com | Emma Löfgren

If an election were held today, the Social Democrats would get 36.2 percent of the vote, according to number-crunching state agency Statistics Sweden’s survey – a 5.9 point increase on the 2022 election. The ruling Moderates, on the other hand, would only get 18.3 percent, 0.8 percentage points down on the last election, although that decrease is not statistically significant.