February 15, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Confederation_of_swedish_enterprise":
Analysis & Opinion: 28 Nov 11
Swedish society is failing its "immigrants", many of whom, such as football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, are forced to look elsewhere to build successful careers, social commentator and author Tove Lifvendahl argues.
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Business & Money: 14 Nov 11
Finance minister Anders Borg announced plans on Monday to close loopholes in the Swedish tax code following criticism that healthcare companies are using complicated schemes to avoid paying taxes in Sweden.
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Politics: 12 Nov 11
Following revelations about scandal-stricken care company Carema, both Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise demand more efficient controls of tax-financed geriatric care.
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Business & Money: 10 Oct 11
A leading expert has refuted claims that corruption is becoming more widespread in Sweden, arguing there is no evidence to back up the claims.
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Politics: 3 Jul 11
Swedish politicians, journalists and lobbyists have gathered on Gotland to partake in Almedalsveckan, an annual political event that is set to cost Swedish authorities 5.2 million kronor ($829,000) according to a Swedish newspaper.
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Business & Money: 30 Jun 11
Sweden needs to cut its student grants to students electing to study humanities and arts subjects, to encourage them to pursue degrees which can lead to a job, according to a new report from an influential business group.
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Business & Money: 13 May 11
The chairman of Swedish pensions insurance firm AMF is leaving his post after the firm's owners took exception to his tax affairs.
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Business & Money: 3 May 11
The north Stockholm suburb of Solna has been named the most business-friendly municipality in Sweden, according to a new ranking.
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Business & Money: 15 Feb 11
An increasing number of women in Sweden are running businesses, according to a new study, although some measures indicate Sweden still lags behind compared to other European countries.
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Politics: 4 Feb 11
Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren has announced that he wants to remove the municipal vetoes against wind power farms that are currently in place.
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Business & Money: 3 Dec 10
People with non-European backgrounds remain largely absent from the upper echelons of Sweden’s publicly traded companies, according to a new report.
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Business & Money: 9 Sep 10
Sweden has overtaken the United States and Singapore in a new ranking of the world’s most competitive economies published by the World Economic Forum.
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Politics: 4 May 10
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt claims that the shadow budget presented by the left-green coalition on Monday hikes taxes for three million people and is devastating for Swedish business.
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Business & Money: 22 Mar 10
The Swedish Commercial Employees' Union has served notice of strike action from April 1st, covering 5,000 employees and affecting retail chains such as Ica, H&M, Ikea, Åhléns and Hemköp.
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Politics: 3 Mar 10
A new poll shows Swedes are in favour of the system of household services tax relief that the left-green opposition has declared it will abolish - despite its popularity among top Social Democrats - if it wins the autumn election,
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Business & Money: 26 Jan 10
More than two out of three foreign-born residents who have been in Sweden for two years or less don’t have work, new statistics show.
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Business & Money: 15 Dec 09
Pay cheques for Swedish CEOs are less than half the size of those of their counterparts in other European companies, a new study shows.
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Business & Money: 2 Nov 09
Sweden’s unions announced demands on Monday that workers in the manufacturing sector receive a 2.6 percent wage increase, much to the dismay of leading employers' groups.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Jul 09
Anyone who doubts that Sweden is a country characterised by openness and informality should visit Visby during the first week of July, writes Olle Wästberg, Director-General of the Swedish Institute.
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Politics: 3 Jul 09
Sweden’s finance minister Anders Borg lashed out at the country’s business community on Friday, calling Sweden’s main business group “ideological megaphones” who’ve shirked their responsibility during the economic crisis.
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Business & Money: 24 Jun 09
Sweden needs to cut its capital gains tax in order to maintain its competitiveness, according to a new report from an influential business group.
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Business & Money: 26 May 09
Swedish business leaders have demanded a pay freeze, lower pay for young people and more flexible employment regulations, warning union leaders not to inflate expectations before the 2010 pay talks.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 09
The board of AMF Pension said late Sunday night that they had been misled about the size of former CEO Christer Elmehagen’s pension and requested that he pay more than 20 million kronor ($2.4 million) back to the company.
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Business & Money: 24 Mar 09
The head of Sweden’s main trade union group is facing a storm of media criticism following revelations that she approved a lavish pension package for former AMF Pension CEO Christer Elmehagen.
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National: 11 Mar 09
Talks between Sweden's main employers' and employees' associations on a major revision to the agreement which has governed Sweden's labour relations for seven decades, collapsed on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 4 Mar 09
Ingrid Bonde, the head of Swedish pension firm AMF Pension, has been named Sweden’s most powerful businesswoman by a leading business magazine.
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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: 5 Feb 09
The four parties of Sweden's centre-right governing Alliance on Thursday announced they had reached an agreement to reverse a decision to phase out the country's 10 nuclear reactors.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 08
Doug Lansky takes a look at how Swedish tradition, technology, sick leave, vacations, public holidays and a new management style mean many 'full-time' Swedish workers get 130 days off per year.
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Analysis & Opinion: 14 Oct 08
Which comes first: urban creativity or sound economic growth? Nima Sanandaji aims to separate the chickens from the eggs as he examines the influence on Swedish policy-makers of US urban theorist Richard Florida.
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National: 27 Sep 08
The Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) has offered roses to those responsible for poisoning members of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. Party leader Mona Sahlin described the offer as "terrible."
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National: 26 Sep 08
Sweden’s security service Säpo is investigating possible sabotage following an incident which left 140 people at the headquarters of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv) suffering from dysentery.
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Politics: 22 Sep 08
The political opposition took aim at the Swedish government’s new budget proposal on Monday, while the document received mix reviews from labour and other organizations.
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Business & Money: 29 May 08
The head of Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen), Ingrid Bonde, has announced she is stepping down to take a job leading one of Sweden’s largest pension funds.
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Business & Money: 6 May 08
Sweden’s main employers’ and employees’ associations have announced plans for a major revision to the agreement which has governed Sweden’s labour relations for seven decades.
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 08
High-tech gyms, free breakfasts, and programmes to help people lose weight or stop smoking: modern Swedish companies pamper their employees in a bid to combat one of Europe's highest absenteeism rates, writes AFP's Delphine Touitou.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Feb 08
Nima Sanandaji speaks to one of the co-authors of a book examining the increasing propensity of Swedes to skirt around the edges of the country's tax and social welfare systems.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Feb 08
Criticism of the government from business owners is falling on deaf ears, says Nima Sanandaji from the Captus think tank.
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Politics: 11 Feb 08
Reacting to strong criticism, the government is now stepping back from plans to limit sick benefits.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 08
Sweden's government has welcomed a major EU initiative to fight climate change. But industry representatives were less pleased.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jan 08
Half of Swedish R&D investment comes from 20 companies. This poses risks for the future, says Nima Sanandaji.
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Lifestyle: 8 Nov 07
To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. Daniel Boman reports.
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Politics: 8 Nov 07
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has appointed HG Wessberg to succeed Ulrica Schenström as his state secretary. Reinfeldt's new appointee has already admitted in an informal survey earlier this week to paying cash-in-hand for domestic services.
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Society: 17 Oct 07
Nearly 95 percent of Swedes admit that they abuse the country's public services and benefits systems. Only 5 percent never bend the rules, according to a new study carried out by two senior economists.
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Politics: 18 Sep 07
A group calling itself Kommando 365 has vandalized offices in Gothenburg belonging to the Moderate Party, Liberal Party and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.
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Business & Money: 11 Sep 07
Sweden's period of high economic growth is set to continue, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise has predicted. Sweden's economy will continue to grow, despite a serious downturn in the US.
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Politics: 12 Aug 07
Unions and business leaders have slammed plans by the government to increase capital gains tax on homes.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jun 07
Sweden has many of the prerequisites for becoming a good country to be an entrepreneur. But negative attitudes to entrepreneurship need to change – something a new campaign hopes to achieve, says Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think-tank.
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Business & Money: 29 May 07
Speaking at a taxation conference on Tuesday, Finance Minister Anders Borg defended the government's decision to replace residential property tax with a council fee. But the OECD forecasts the resurrection of the tax "within five years".
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National: 23 May 07
The European Court of Justice has been recommended to rule in favour of the Swedish unions in a landmark case following a bitter industrial dispute at Vaxholm.
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Business & Money: 22 May 07
One of Sweden's most senior businessmen has warned against reducing consumption as a way of dealing with climate change. Worry over climate change is the greatest threat to growth, says Unilever chairman Michael Treschow.
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National: 1 May 07
Rioters caused widespread damage in central Stockholm on Tuesday evening after a May Day demonstration turned violent. The group was reported to be linked to the Reclaim the Streets movement.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 07
A planned shopworkers' strike over the Easter weekend has been averted after unions and employers agreed on a three-year pay deal. The deal snubs the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, which barred an identical deal at the weekend.
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Politics: 28 Mar 07
The move to get rid of wealth tax has been widely welcomed in political and business circles. But union movement LO has said it is "unacceptable" that pension savers will have to pay the price.
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Business & Money: 27 Mar 07
Axfood has accused the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise of damaging the credibility of the current round of wage negotiations when it intervened to block a deal in the trade sector.
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Politics: 26 Mar 07
The Commercial Employees Union has called for a complete stoppage at 94 workplaces around the country. 6,000 employees across the country will be called out of work.
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Business & Money: 26 Mar 07
A strike call could be issued to people working in the retail trade at 4pm on Monday. Industrial action could hit shoppers as early as Easter weekend.
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National: 25 Mar 07
One of Sweden's largest blue-collar unions is expected to announce an Easter strike on Monday after weekend talks with employer organisations broke down on Sunday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Mar 07
Immigrants' average earnings are well below those of native Swedes. But the differences have less to do with discrimination than with over-regulation, high taxes and high welfare, says Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.
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National: 16 Feb 07
A foreign name or a non-Swedish ethnic background will not cause job-seekers to be treated any differently than native Swedes, according to a new report.
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Business & Money: 13 Feb 07
Marcus Wallenberg, scion of Sweden's most powerful business dynasty, has been named chairman of electrical giant Electrolux. The appointment seals his position as one of the top names in Swedish industry.
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Business & Money: 29 Jan 07
Companies are losing interest in the 'expert tax' scheme, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise claims. The organisation calls for criteria to be simplified.
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Business & Money: 12 Jan 07
Swedish businessman Michael Treschow has been appointed chairman of Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever, in a widely expected move.
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National: 19 Dec 06
Two companies in southern Sweden have been blockaded by trade unions for refusing to sign collective agreements. The reason? the Bible won't let them. And there is no end in sight.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Dec 06
The Nordic countries are all in rude economic health, with growth outstripping that of Britain, Germany and France. AFP's Delphine Toitou takes a look at their recipe for success.
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Business & Money: 19 Dec 06
Michael Treschow will not stand for re-election as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Electrolux. Indications suggest that Unilever is next in line for the controversial business leader.
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Politics: 18 Dec 06
Sweden's finance minister Anders Borg has put himself at odds with leading industrialist Michael Treschow, by saying that Swedish executives are overpaid. Treschow thinks bosses should get more.
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Business & Money: 17 Dec 06
Ericsson chairman Michael Treschow is set to be made head of Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever, it has been reported in the UK.
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Business & Money: 13 Dec 06
Top Swedish bosses are not paid enough, making it hard to recruit top talent, one of Sweden's most powerful businessmen has said. But unions should be cautious in pay demands for workers, Michael Treschow added.
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National: 1 Dec 06
Sweden's new centre-right government is to support builders' union Byggnads in its case against Latvian company Laval at the European Court, a decision greeted with surprise by employers' organisations.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Nov 06
While Sweden's economic future looks bright in many respects, it will soon lose its competitive edge without major reforms to the role of the public sector, argues Nima Sanandaji
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Politics: 16 Oct 06
The first budget from the new government has had a mixed reception, winning no supporters among Sweden's union organisations but being applauded by the business world.
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Society: 4 Oct 06
Wages for white collar workers have increased at a much greater rate than those of blue collar workers over the last ten years, according to a report from trade union organisation LO.
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Politics: 22 Sep 06
Swedish unions and employers have come to blows after LO leader Wanja Lundby-Wedin said her organization would "take action" if the new government implemented its manifesto commitments.
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Business & Money: 21 Sep 06
The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise has said that the new Alliance government will bolster employment, while growth is expected to slow down next year.
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Business & Money: 19 Sep 06
The head of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise has called on the Alliance government to focus on jobs.
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Business & Money: 8 Aug 06
Sweden's raw material industries are set to enter a new golden era, according to the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. But their success is threatened by rising energy costs.
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Society: 30 Jun 06
Wages for Sweden's top earners grew three times faster than salaries for people in blue-collar jobs, a union report shows. Nothing wrong with that, say employers' representatives.
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Business & Money: 12 Jun 06
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Politics: 1 May 06
The Social Democrats' big guns, including the prime minister, were firing at May 1st meets around Sweden. And they all had the conservative alliance and Swedish business in their sights.
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National: 20 Apr 06
The Swedish Labour Board and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise are bickering over the latter's nomination of three women to an advisory committee. Discrimination, cries the Labour Board.
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Politics: 15 Apr 06
Liberal Party leader Lars Leijonborg has proposed eight rules, coincidentally based on recent scandals linked to the Social Democrats, to prevent corruption among those in power.
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Society: 5 Apr 06
Sweden's satirists can breathe easy: it's OK to joke about the king's alleged lovers on television. Political bias is not acceptable, though.
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National: 6 Feb 06
Sweden's party leaders back the government's stance on the publication of pictures of the prophet Muhammad in Denmark's Jyllands-Posten. But the crisis has led the travel company Apollo to cancel charter trips from Sweden to Egypt.
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Business & Money: 30 Nov 05
All new employees, and anyone who has been working part time for three years, should have the right to full time work - that's the conclusion of a government inquiry presented on Wednesday. Brace yourself for unemployment, say employer organisations.
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Society: 29 Nov 05
Proposals of board gender quotas are dismissed as a report claims that more women than ever are breaking through the "glass ceiling". It's just a question of educational and career choices, say the authors.
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Society: 22 Jun 05
The difference between women and men's wages is not down to discrimination, but due to the different jobs they choose. That's according to a new report by Sweden's leading business interest organisation.
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Business & Money: 7 Mar 05
According to a report out today by Swedish industry watchdog Svensk Näringsliv, the skills of many competent and experienced Swedish women are going to waste.
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Smörgåsbord: 4 Mar 05
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Smörgåsbord: 30 Dec 04
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Smörgåsbord: 20 Dec 04
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Smörgåsbord: 13 Dec 04
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Business & Money: 23 Nov 04
The law is about to be tightened up in favour of people on sick leave. Companies don't like it one bit and are planning their purges before it takes effect. Hold back that sneeze.
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Smörgåsbord: 26 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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