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The rain is falling, it is windy and cold - I say: the classic Swedish summer has arrived. Today Bruce Springsteen gives his first of three concerts in Stockholm. Sold out and a lot of people have been quening for four day, because the want to get as close to the stage as possible.  The Swedes have a very special relationship to Bruce Springstreen. Once the leader of the Swedish Socialdemocratic Party choosed to go to a concert with him instead of joining the party for the Nobel Prize.    Read more >

Wanja Lundby-Wedin, head of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO), has been criticized for letting her husband stay for free at an Italian holiday camp. They have shared a double room.  She habitually spends six days a year at the resort, about half of which are filled with board meetings, the other half dedicated to “observing operations”, writes the newspaper Expressen. As for the other union heads - among them chairman of the Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees, Sture Nordh - it is common practice to take their spouses along to accompany them.  Read more >