Instead, Gradvall understands that the most fascinating insights often lurk in tangents and digressions: a few lines on Swedish surname conventions, or the importance of the reference to Dallas in the ...

Swedish is a wonderful, melodic but often deeply odd language full of strange phrases and words that are seemingly impossible for a human being to pronounce. So, let’s not beat about the bush ...

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A section of the Births and Registration Act, which prohibited a husband from taking on his wife’s surname upon marriage, was found to be discriminatory on the ground of gender. The two couples ...

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Under Swedish law, both first names and surnames need to win the approval of authorities before they can be used. However, in 2014, three babies in Scotland were named M, R and T. Other names ...

Two husbands have been given the green light to use the surnames of their wives after a court overturned the provisions of an outdated law which prohibited this. A section of the Births and ...

COPENHAGEN, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A Swedish district court on Friday upheld a preliminary ruling that Sweden's postal service Postnord does not need to deliver licence plates to Tesla (TSLA.O), opens ...

Different surnames are only allowed for international marriages. A 2016 Ministry of Health, Labour & Welfare survey found that among more than 600,000 marriages, just 4 percent of men took their ...

Food prices rose in September after months of little or no change in prices. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT After a few months of stagnant food prices, September saw a rise of 0.2 percent, according to ...

After the bank's decision to cut rates by 0.25 percentage points on September 25th, some Swedish banks have already lowered their mortgage rates on both fixed-term and variable rate mortgages. The ...

One issue that does differentiate the contenders, however, centers on a 30-year-old debate over whether married couples should be able to use separate surnames. Spouses must share a surname under ...