March 19, 2010
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Sweden risks facing severe labour shortages
Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 09
Over the next ten years, the number of native-born Swedes of working age will decline by 100,000. Without more immigrants, we will be unable to sustain our welfare standards, writes Olle Wästberg, head of the Swedish Institute.
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Swedish culture – a forgotten promotional tool
Analysis & Opinion: 18 Nov 09
Sweden’s cultural heritage is virtually unknown outside the country’s borders. Swedes should be better at using culture to promote their own country, writes Olle Wästberg, Director-General of the Swedish Institute.
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Beyond the insults: Swedish Model 2.0
Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 09
As Sweden takes a battering in the US health care debate, Swedish Institute chief Olle Wästberg examines two of the insults most frequently flung: that Sweden is rampantly socialist, and that it's the poster child for neo-liberal market excesses.
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Almedalen — Swedish openness galore
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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English skills help Swedes go global
Analysis & Opinion: 17 Mar 09
Language-learning has always been of great importance to a small country like Sweden, and good English proficiency is crucial in helping the country adapt to a globalized world, writes Olle Wästberg, Director-General of the Swedish Institute.
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Swedish banks badly exposed to Baltic bust
Analysis & Opinion: 16 Mar 09
Swedish banks invested massively in the emerging Baltic states when times were good but now that the tiger economies are going bust the banks risk big losses, experts tell AFP's Delphine Touitou.
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Banking on the new Swedish model
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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Management by consensus – the Swedish way
Analysis & Opinion: 21 Jan 09
Swedish managers are supposed to be consensual, non-hierarchical and informal. Is the stereotype accurate, asks Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute.
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Sweden – a new melting pot?
Analysis & Opinion: 16 Dec 08
As Sweden opens its borders to a new wave of labour migration, the country is becoming more diverse than ever before, writes Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute.
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'Every Swede has a cousin in America'
Analysis & Opinion: 20 Nov 08
Sweden has deep historic ties with the United states, writes Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute. And even though some Americans mistakenly associate Sweden with the cuckoo clock, the relationship remains largely one of mutual understanding and respect.
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Sweden is in the eye of the beholder
Analysis & Opinion: 15 Oct 08
Sweden means many different things to many different people. Just ask the United States Secret Service, writes Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute.
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Sweden trumped by Maldives in Second Life
Science & Technology: 22 May 07
Sweden will not be the first country to open an embassy in Second Life. The Maldives has established diplomatic representation in the virtual online world just eight days before Sweden's planned launch.
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Sweden's Second Life Embassy ready for opening
Science & Technology: 18 May 07
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt will be among those attending the opening of the first 'diplomatic representation' in the virtual reality of Second Life. The opening ceremony will take place at the end of this month.
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Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life
Science & Technology: 26 Jan 07
Sweden is to become the first country to establish diplomatic representation in the virtual reality world of Second Life, officials said on Friday.
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Former NYC mayor to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
National: 2 Jun 05
Sweden's former consul general in New York has proposed that the city's ex-mayor Rudolph Giuliani be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, arguing that he has "saved more human lives than most people alive today".
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Bad Company 2 sells 2.3 million »
"Stockholm based EA DICE have announced that Battlefield: Bad Company 2, released earlier this month has sold-through 2.3 million copies (according to internal data) so far across three platforms in Europe and North America. It is on track to becoming the best selling release of March." READ »
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