After the Shein review – the government puts pressure on the EU

Serious accident – car collided with tree

At nine o’clock on Wednesday morning, a car drove into a tree at Övedskloster outside Sjöbo.

– One person was traveling in the car, and the car caught fire. It is a serious accident, says Evelina Olsson.

According to the police, it was slippery at the scene, but whether it is related to the accident is unclear.

The trains need to run more slowly

Starting tomorrow, trains to and from Stockholm will have to run more slowly, which will lead to some delays.

This primarily applies to commuter trains, but it will also affect some long-distance and regional trains.

The reason is that inspection remarks on the railways must be rectified.

– For safety reasons, the speed must be reduced until the problem is fixed. The speed is reduced to a maximum of 70 kilometers per hour, says Katarina Wolffram, press communicator for the Swedish Transport Administration.

On Friday and during the weekend, more routes to and from Stockholm will be affected. The routes will be communicated to affected travelers in the coming days.

– It will probably take a couple of weeks before the work is finished, says Katarina Wolffram.

The S leader’s Hedarv-pik to Åkesson

When Jimmie Åkessson asked Magdalena Andersson during the party leader debate how asylum immigration would be affected under an S-led government, he also demanded an answer as to why the Social Democrats did not stand behind an opportunity to strip gang criminals of their Swedish citizenship.

The S leader replied that no such solution could be presented by the constitutional committee. She then poked Åkesson on the grounds that MC leader Robert Hedarv had been a guest at his wedding.

– If you socialize so closely with gang criminals that you invite them to your wedding, you might lose your job, but you shouldn’t lose your citizenship for it, Andersson said

Kristersson and Dadgostar in a fight about Landerholm

During the Riksdag’s party leader debate, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was criticized by the Left Party’s Nooshi Dadgostar. The issue concerned national security adviser Henrik Landerholm, who was questioned after handling classified documents carelessly.

– Ulf Kristersson does not take the issue seriously, blames everything and everyone and uses it as a pawn in the debate, said Dadgostar.

Kristersson replied that the case was handled by the government office’s security department and that he does not question their handling.

– I don’t take lessons from a party leader who has a hard time keeping clean of terrorist romanticism in his own ranks, Kristersson said.

Two to hospital after collision – suspected drunk driving

A truck and a car have collided outside Ludvika.

A 55-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man have been taken to hospital after the accident.

The man, the driver of the lorry, has been taken into custody for a body search and is suspected of drunk driving and gross negligence in traffic.

Magdalena Andersson still on crutches

During Wednesday’s parliamentary debate, Social Democratic party leader Magdalena Andersson jumps up to the podium with the help of crutches.

It was last week that she injured herself after skiing in Sälen in front of Folk and Defence.

Read more about the accident here.

Meta fires thousands of “low-performing” employees

Tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, plans to cut five percent of its workforce, reports say Reuters.

That would correspond to around 3,600 people out of today’s roughly 72,000 employees.

The company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg states that the cuts will focus on “low-performing” employees. He also warns that even more people may be fired during the year when the performance requirements are raised.

Meta is now investing heavily in AI technology, which is expected to increase the company’s spending.

In recent years, Meta has carried out extensive restructuring. Around 10,000 employees were laid off in 2022, and the same number in 2023.

The deposit is increased

In order to get Swedes to deposit more, it will now be more worthwhile to hand in cans and bottles for recycling.

Aluminum cans and small plastic bottles will be raised from one to two kroner, and large PET bottles from two to three kroner, Pantamera writes in a press release.

Flight alert throughout Ukraine

On Wednesday morning, Russia sent a large number of robots against Ukraine.

The Ukrainian air defense has therefore issued an air alert throughout the country, writes Suspline.

The air defense states that most of the robots are moving towards western Ukraine.

The center party served suspicion of sexual molestation against children

Former center party member Gustav Hemming has been questioned by the police and now served with suspicion of sexual molestation of children, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

The crime was committed against a child on public transport in the Stockholm area in August last year.

– The investigation is progressing with customary preliminary investigation measures, says senior prosecutor Rebecca Rehnström in a press release.

One arrested after explosion in Nyköping

An 18-year-old person has been arrested on suspicion of public destruction after Tuesday’s explosion in Nyköping.

The person was later arrested by prosecutors.

The explosion occurred on Tuesday evening at a property in Nyköping. It was the second incident involving suspected dangerous objects in the area within 24 hours.

No one was injured in the blast, but the facade suffered minor damage.

Truck on the wrong side of the road – stop in traffic

A lorry has driven its trailer into a central barrier on E20 at the height of Vara. The accident has resulted in it ending up on the wrong side of the road and blocking the lane.

– There has been a major traffic impact during the morning, initially it has been completely stopped, says police spokesperson Adam Isaksson Samara.

It is said to be very slippery at the site.

Highest unemployment in three years

The labor market continues to deteriorate. Unemployment is now the highest in three years, and the number of long-term unemployed is increasing rapidly.

At the end of December 2024, 7.1 percent of the workforce, or 377,000 people, were registered as unemployed with the country’s employment agencies. This can be compared with 6.6 percent a year earlier, according to the Employment Agency’s monthly statistics. You have to go back to the beginning of 2022 to find higher numbers.

“Unemployment increased broadly. Both among women and men, among domestic and foreign-born as well as among younger and older people, more are registered as unemployed today than a year ago,” says Eva Samakovlis, director of analysis at Arbetsförmedlingen, in a press release.

Dangerous object found in Brandbergen

During the night, the police found a dangerous object in an industrial area in Brandbergen in Haninge outside Stockholm.

It was located adjacent to a building. The area has been cordoned off and the national bomb defense has rendered the object harmless.

– It was a sharp object, says Anna Westberg at the police.

During the day there will be a technical survey of the site.

– We will also collect information through questioning and by collecting surveillance footage from the scene, says Anna Westberg.

No one has been arrested, but a preliminary investigation into violations of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods and attempted public destruction has been launched.