An eventful week for the Reinfeldt administration has passed, the Swedish eel has come back from the death throes of possible extinction, and Lund Science Village opens.
Swedish Defense Minister Sten Tolgfors has stepped down. Implications that the Swedish government has been involved in an agreement with Saudi Arabia to help them produce weapons leaked over the radio earlier this month. Tolgfors is still content with the work he has done at the Swedish administration, and states that plans were already underway for him to step down since last summer.
A company involving Sweden’s national civilian registration system has been hacked. Many personal numbers have been copied and roughly 1000 personal numbers are at further risk because of tied in personal information. The incident has been reported to the police and the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) has already begun to inform the people affected.
Critically endangered Swedish eels are reported to have been successfully bred in captivity in the European Union project Pro-Eel. European eels have been endangered since the 1970s; their populations have been reduced by roughly 95%. The reason for their situation, beyond environmental factors, can be traced toward overfishing.
A new proposal to build a 
completely new district in Lund has been put into place. The area will be called Lund Science Village and is intended to focus on sustainability, innovation, and a healthy research environment. The company, Lundamark AB, which set the project into motion, has assigned the project to 4 architectural firms, of which two have won the distinction to work on the district.
Lidköping Municipality wants to alter its official city name to Lidköping Municipality by Vänern because of the name’s striking similarity to Linköping, a city located further west of Lidköping closer to Stockholm in Östgötaland. The community jurisconsultant brought up the issue again after the idea was laid to rest 20 years ago. “We hear all the time that people cannot distinguish us from Linköping,” says Mayor Kjell Hedvall to TV 4 News in Skaraborg.
