The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, which became the country's second biggest party in last month's election, are not welcome at the Nobel banquet, the Nobel Foundation said on Tuesday.
This year's laureates, which includes former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and French novelist Annie Ernaux, will be celebrated along with a host of other dignitaries at a lavish banquet in Stockholm on Dec. 10.
Swedish party leaders are traditionally always invited to the banquet, which will also celebrate the winners of the past two years when the banquet has been canceled due to COVID, but the Nobel Foundation has repeatedly snubbed the controversial Sweden Democrats and will do so again this year.
