At least one Swedish citizen to leave Gaza, violent passenger forces Swedish charter flight to land, inflation at 3 percent, and other news from Sweden on Thursday.
At least one Swedish citizen to leave Gaza, violent passenger forces Swedish charter flight to land, inflation at 3 percent, and other news from Sweden on Thursday.
At least one Swedish citizen to leave Gaza, violent passenger forces Swedish charter flight to land, inflation at 3 percent, and other news from Sweden on Thursday.
At least one Swedish citizen to leave Gaza
At least one Swedish citizen is set to leave the Gaza Strip after Israel gave the green light to a group of citizens of western countries to leave the area.
“Sweden’s foreign ministry can confirm that an assisted outward journey is currently taking place, and that we are working with Swedish citizens,” Mats Samuelsson at the ministry’s press department told TT.
Since October 2023, he said, 620 Swedish citizens had been able to leave Gaza. The group will travel by bus through Israel and the West Bank to Jordan, where they will be flown to the countries where they have citizenship.
Swedish vocabulary: att bekräfta – to confirm
Violent passenger forces Swedish charter flight to land early
A charter flight from the Canary Islands to Gothenburg was forced to land early in Spain after a woman began attacking other passengers and causing “chaos” on board. The flight made an emergency landing at Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
“The pilot made an assessment that the situation was sufficiently serious that this person should be removed from the flight,” Adam Györki, communication chief for the charter company TUI, told the Expressen newspaper.
According to Aftonbladet, the woman was attacking other passengers, with a female passenger taken from the airport in an ambulance for treatment for a blow to the head.
The violent woman was arrested and the other travellers on the flight had to spend the night in Santiago de Compostela because of the time it took to locate the baggage of the disruptive passenger.
Swedish vocabulary: stökigt – disruptive
Swedish defence agency leaked names of 150 job applicants
The Swedish Agency for Defence Analysis leaked the names of 150 people who had applied for and been rejected for a job, sending them all out in a group rejection email where all names and contact details were visible to everyone, the Aftonbladet newspaper has reported.
The agency has already apologised and reported itself to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, with one of those affected describing the mistake as “blundering”.
Swedish vocabulary: klantig – blundering
Inflation hits 3 percent in July
Inflation in Sweden hit 3.0 percent in July, according to the KPIF measure, according to a preliminary calculation made by Statistics Sweden (SCB). This was slightly below analysts’ expectations, which were on average 3.1 percent. In June, the inflation rate was 2.8 percent. Inflation measured as the CPI was 0.8 percent at an annual rate. KPIF excluding energy was 3.1 percent. The Riksbank’s inflation target is 2.0 percent.
Swedish vocabulary: förväntningar – expectations
National Institute of Economic Research downgrades growth expectations
Sweden’s economic recovery is set to be slower than previously expected, according to a revised forecast from the National Institute of Economic Research (KI), with weaker than expected household consumption to blame.
KI now expects GDP to grow by just 0.7 percent in 2025, down from an earlier forecast of 1.0 percent.
“We have for a long time been wrong on household consumption, I must admit,” the institute’s head of forecasting, Ylva Hedén Westerdahl, said. “It is not growing as fast as we believed it would. Perhaps that’s not so strange when you consider that prices have risen by 30 percent in three years and that we have had higher interest rates.”
KI expects a turnaround later this year, as lower interest rates and rising real wages start to lift consumer spending. The Riksbank is expected to cut rates again before year-end. For 2026, KI expects growth of 2.6 percent.
Swedish vocabulary: att ha fel – to be wrong
Unemployment still on the rise
Nearly 20,000 people more people were unemployed in Sweden in three months from March to the end of June, compared to the same period in 2024, taking the unemployment rate to 6.9 percent. Västerbotten, home to the bankrupt Northvolt battery factory, has seen the sharpest rise.
As many as 363,000 people were registered as unemployed in the second quarter of 2025, up from 344,000 in 2024, according to the latest statistics from the Swedish Public Employment Service.
In Västerbotten, the number of people registered as unemployed shot up from 4,992 in the second quarter of 2024 to 7,417 in the second quarter of 2025.
“The largest increase has occurred in Västerbotten, where extensive notices, layoffs and bankruptcy in battery manufacturing have had a major impact on the labour market,” Marcus Löwing, the service’s labour market analyst, said in a press release. Uppsala county also saw a sharp rise in unemployment.
Swedish vocabulary: uppsägningar – layoffs
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