News from Denmark – 09/11/2023

A Swedish government inquiry this spring stopped short of backing a ban on lotteries to fund political parties. Could a report about unscrupulous selling techniques for the Social Democrats’ lottery provide cover for government to push ahead with it anyway?

Sweden is willing to manage a future Nato land force in neighbouring Finland, which shares a border with Russia, the two newest members of the military alliance announced on Monday.

October is set to be a busy month in Sweden this year, with Nobel Prize announcements and new laws on citizenship on the cards, as well as festivals and events like Halloween and Diwali at the end of the month.

Severe floods continued to wreak havoc in Austria on Tuesday, with Lower Austria in crisis mode and widespread evacuations underway. Three people have died and officials warned of more flooding as temperatures rise and snowmelt accelerates.

The engineering services company Siri AB has been recruiting high-skilled Indian workers to Sweden from its office in Gothenburg for years. They told The Local that talk of an Indian ‘exodus’ from Sweden is exaggerated.