February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Bo_lundgren":
Business & Money: 15 Jan 12
In light of the current European debate on a financial transactions tax, former Swedish finance minister Bo Lundgren has spoken out about Sweden's "very negative" experience of implementing the tax in the 1980s.
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National: 28 Apr 11
Russian financier Vladimir Antonov has received approval from former Saab owner General Motors and the Swedish National Debt Office to become a part owner of troubled Swedish automaker.
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Business & Money: 26 Apr 11
Russian financier Vladimir Antonov is to arrive in Sweden on Tuesday to meet state representatives to discuss the future of crisis-hit Swedish carmaker Saab.
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Business & Money: 15 Apr 11
On Thursday the National Debt Office took a small step towards Saabs recovery by opening up for the cash-strapped carmaker to receive loans from other sources than the EIB.
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Business & Money: 14 Apr 11
Russian financier and potential Saab investor Vladimir Antonov, who remains undaunted by recent troubles the Swedish carmaker, is currently being vetted by the Swedish national debt office.
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Politics: 1 Apr 11
Some 27 percent of Swedes have confidence in the new Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt, a new poll shows, roughly comparable with the support enjoyed by former leader Mona Sahlin.
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Politics: 7 Jul 10
The Swedish government has announced that migration minister Tobias Billström will take temporary charge of the employment ministry following the resignation of Sven Otto Littorin, citing personal reasons.
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Business & Money: 20 May 10
The former owners of Carnegie Investment Bank are suing the Swedish state for 8.4 billion kronor ($1.1 billion) over the enforced takeover of the bank during the financial crisis in 2008.
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Business & Money: 3 Mar 10
The Swedish National Debt Office (Riksgälden) has forecast that state finances will recover quicker than expected and anticipates financial scope for government spending in time for the autumn election.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Apr 09
In a time of severe economic crisis, the European Union is fortunate to have Sweden taking up the presidential reins this summer, British Ambassador to Sweden Andrew Mitchell tells The Local's James Savage.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Feb 09
Olle Wästberg, Director General of the Swedish Institute reveals some insights garnered from his inside track in the early 1990s to the bone-shaking Swedish banking crisis and its eventual resolution.
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Politics: 11 Feb 09
Sweden’s National Debt Office has agreed to sell the Carnegie investment bank for a total of 2.28 billion kronor ($276 million), the agency announced on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 21 Nov 08
Sweden's National Debt Office said on Friday it plans to sell Carnegie's investment banking arm and insurance broker Max Matthiessen as separate units.
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National: 14 Nov 08
Finance minister Anders Borg has surpassed prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as Sweden’s most influential powerbroker, according to a new ranking.
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Business & Money: 31 Oct 08
Sweden’s finance minister Anders Borg lashed out at the country’s major banks and financial institutions on Friday for their hesitation to participate in the government’s financial sector support programme.
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Business & Money: 29 Sep 08
Sweden's debt office has said the demand for treasury bills has not been not as high as first feared when it stepped in earlier this month to soothe market tensions.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Sep 08
The Bush administration's handling of the financial crisis is in part inspired by a successful Swedish bank rescue in the 1990s, but one crucial deviation could cost US taxpayers dearly, one of the architects of the Swedish plan said on Monday.
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National: 20 Sep 08
The proposed US debt rescue plan has sought inspiration from the work to tackle the Swedish banking crisis at the beginning of the 1990s.
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Business & Money: 19 Sep 08
The good times kept rolling on the Stockholm stock exchange on Friday afternoon, with the OMXS-index up 7.9 percent on the day, the largest one day jump since 1992.
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Lifestyle: 16 Mar 07
Sweden's top interviewer Stina Lundberg Dabrowski tells Christine Demsteader about asking awkward questions of Madonna, discovering Margaret Thatcher's sense of humour and her 20-year pursuit of Fidel Castro.
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Politics: 14 Mar 05
As an eighteen-month election campaign slowly grinds into action, the Moderates, Sweden's main opposition party, attempt to seize the initiative on education by turning back to publicly-run schools after a temporary flirtation with private education.
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Smörgåsbord: 20 Oct 04
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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