After contracting in 2023, economic activity started to recover in 2024, and growth is expected to pick up further in 2025. Inflation has been successfully brought under control. Uncertainty is high.

A Swedish prosecutor said on Friday he had decided to release from detention five suspects who were held over the killing on Wednesday of an anti-Islam campaigner.

Sweden’s government said on Friday that it will introduce a bill to amend Swedish gun laws and restrict access to semi-automatic guns, following the country’s worst mass shooting this week.