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The Geopolitician

Country risk, from the local press

Sweden country watch

Signals only — no written briefing yet. Every number links to the articles it counts.

Vigilance

No active vigilance flag · rules: Heightened vigilance for staff and travel · Pressure surge · Media polarisation spike

Flare-up watch

Flare-up watch: Watch (1.1) — driven by Internal tension and Safety & health

  • Internal tension +2.3
  • Safety & health +2.1
  • Agenda divergence +0.0
  • Attention −0.6

· the articles counted

Signals consistent with rising crisis risk. A composite of press signals, not a forecast.

Composite of the day's z-scores against the country's own history — Internal tension 0.25, Safety & health 0.20, agenda divergence 0.20, framing gap 0.15, attention 0.20; a missing component drops out and the others are renormalised. Calm below 0.5 · Watch to 1.5 · High above. Needs 14 days of history on two components. Method →

Risk pressure, last 30 days

Risk categoryLevelArticles, 30 daysBaselineChange vs previous 30 days (articles)Last signal
Regulatory riskno baseline yet90—▲ +90Domare stoppar Trumps skattefinansierade tv-reklam för 20 miljoner dollar Dagens
Operational riskno baseline yet248—▲ +248Broöppning ger stopp i trafiken på väg 616 NSD Norrlandska Socialdemokraten
Stability riskno baseline yet67—▲ +67Tyst protest avlöpte utan ordningsstörning DN.se
Safety & health riskno baseline yet59—▲ +59Två av tre svenska hushåll skulle inte klara en vecka på maten och vattnet hemma Dagens
Corporate riskno baseline yet220—▲ +220Superguide till höstens rapporter di.se
Financial riskno baseline yet363—▲ +363Börsen redo för kurskaos di.se
Trade riskno baseline yet36—▲ +36”Flytta inte målstolparna” – svensk kamp för ETS Sydsvenskan
Political riskno baseline yet180—▲ +180Beskedet: De siktar på att fortsätta styra Ängelholm Helsingborgs Dagblad

Pressure index from 30 days of history · 21 so far

Level = articles that passed the risk gate in the last 30 days, against the country's own baseline (mean of the previous three 30-day windows). Quiet 0 · Low up to the baseline · Elevated up to twice the baseline · High above. Counts, not severities: a press signal, not a rating. Every row links to the articles counted. Method →

Sweden in the world's press

Today 117 articles · ×0.7 vs 30-day average · led by Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Chile, Russia press

Articles mentioning the country across the outlets we read, vs the 30-day average. Method →

Media polarisation

Normal · 99% of the day's topics covered by one side only

· independent 294 · power 40 articles · 300 topics, 2 shared

Share of the day's topics covered by only one side (power vs opposition outlets), from the outlets we read. Media polarisation, not public opinion. Method →

Media we read

23 outlets read every day

  • Aftonbladet independent
  • allehanda.se independent
  • Corren.se independent
  • Dagens independent
  • di.se independent
  • DN.se independent
  • dt.se independent
  • Expressen independent
  • GP independent
  • Helsingborgs Dagblad independent
  • IDG independent
  • Invezz independent
  • NA.se independent
  • Norran Skelleftea independent
  • NSD Norrlandska Socialdemokraten independent
  • nwt.se independent
  • Privata Affarer independent
  • SvD Svenska Dagbladet independent
  • Svenska Dagbladet independent
  • Sveriges Radio state
  • SVT state
  • Sydsvenskan independent
  • VK Vasterbottens-Kuriren independent

How we rate outlets →

Today's signals

· 76 articles

Every article counted this day →

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