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May 28, 2012
Quotas
The following articles have been tagged with "Quotas":
Sweden to receive 1,900 quota refugees in 2012
Politics: 30 Jan 12
Sweden plans to give priority to refugees from Somalia and Eritrea in its efforts to resettle 1,900 United Nations (UN) refugees in 2012.
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'Sweden made me re-think affirmative action'
Analysis & Opinion: 23 Nov 11
Although Sweden’s emphasis on gender can at times seem a bit much to a foreigner, the battle to change perceptions of how a gender equal society can look, has made it a model to follow, Ruben Brunsveld observes.
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Minister touts new law on board gender quotas
Politics: 29 Jul 11
Sweden's minster for gender equality, Nyamko Sabuni, has called for legislation to help boost the number of women who serve on the boards of local government-run companies.
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'Gender quotas would benefit Sweden's corporate boards'
Analysis & Opinion: 8 Mar 11
Too few women serve on the boards of directors at Swedish companies and introducing quotas may be a necessary step to ensure that companies capture the benefits of diversity, argues leadership coach Margareta Neld.
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Sweden loses battle over Baltic fishing quotas
National: 27 Oct 10
Sweden will decrease its herring and salmon catch quotas in the Baltic Sea next year, a departure from years of wrangling over cod fishing.
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Introducing the Feminist Initiative
Analysis & Opinion: 13 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Feminist Initiative, bidding to enter parliament for the first time.
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Introducing the Greens
Analysis & Opinion: 8 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Green Party, bidding to assume power within the centre-left Red-Green coalition and become Sweden's third largest party.
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Left Party's Ohly rebuked for 'breast pump' advice
Society: 6 Sep 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has been slammed by breastfeeding experts and Red-Green coalition colleagues for advising nursing mothers to pump milk out of their breasts so that they can go back to work earlier.
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Swedish feels the squeeze in Finland
Lifestyle: 19 Aug 10
Swedish has been spoken in Finland for hundreds of years, yet declining numbers of speakers and a lack of support from many Finnish speakers mean the language is under pressure like never before, writes Carina Chela.
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Foreigners 'blocked' from college courses
Education: 19 Jul 10
Sweden’s new university admissions system discriminates against foreign students and breaks EU law, according to the country’s university regulator.
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Sweden backs whale hunt plan
Politics: 12 Jun 10
Sweden drew the ire of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Friday as the country lent its backing to a proposal for the introduction of quotas for commercial whale hunting.
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Sweden Democrats to cut foreign aid for welfare
Politics: 1 Jun 10
Sweden's small far-right Sweden Democrat party presented a shadow budget on Monday pledging lower taxes and higher benefits, to be financed by cutting international aid and refugee quotas.
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Saab rehiring to meet production goals
Business & Money: 1 Apr 10
Car maker Saab has indicated that is soon to begin reemploying people made reduntant last year as it ups the tempo on its production lines in Trollhättan in western Sweden.
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Sweden plans 2,000 wind turbines
Politics: 2 Mar 10
The Swedish government has announced plans for the construction of 2,000 wind turbines over the next ten years.
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'Bears most feared by Swedes': report
National: 13 Feb 10
Swedes are increasingly afraid of encountering wild animals in the countryside, particularly bears, according to a new report.
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Profile: Sweden's new EU minister Birgitta Ohlsson
Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 10
Birgitta Ohlsson was named as Sweden's new EU minister on Tuesday. An outspoken advocate of feminism, equality and civil liberties issues, as well as a keen supporter of Nato membership, Ohlsson also harbours dreams of a top UN human rights post.
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Ohlsson defies critics to claim EU minister post
Politics: 2 Feb 10
Birgitta Ohlsson has been named as Liberal Party colleague Cecilia Malmström's successor as Sweden's EU minister despite the initial reservations of party leader Jan Björklund.
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Sweden set to scrap university gender quotas
Education: 12 Jan 10
Sweden plans to ditch gender quotas for admissions to programmes at the country’s universities and colleges, according to higher education and research minister Tobias Krantz.
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Sweden lagging behind in equality for women professionals
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Nov 09
Sweden's much-vaunted gender equality statistics do not stretch as far as the boardrooms of private companies, an area in which the country has fallen way off the international pace, argues Nima Sanandaji.
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Sweden agrees to accept camp refugees
National: 27 Sep 09
Sweden and a dozen other European countries have agreed to accept Somali and Eritrean refugees from camps in Kenya and Sudan. Three further camps on Iraq's border with Syria will also be emptied.
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EU to offer billions in climate aid to poor nations: Reinfeldt
Politics: 10 Sep 09
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Wednesday announced plans for the European Union to offer developing countries €15 billion ($22 billion) a year to help combat climate change.
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No equality quotas for boards: Olofsson
Business & Money: 2 Sep 09
Industry minister Maud Olofsson has washed her government’s hands of the responsibility for ensuring equal representation of women and men on company boards.
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Sweden announces EU immigration reform plans
Politics: 25 Aug 09
The Swedish EU presidency announced on Monday that proposals to reform immigration policy will be presented in September.
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Moderate Party: 'half our candidates will be women'
Politics: 6 Mar 09
Sweden’s Moderate Party says it wants half of the party’s candidates for the 2010 elections to be women.
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Nine fishermen convicted of poaching
National: 5 Nov 08
A Swedish court has found nine fishermen guilty of illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod in the country's largest ever poaching case.
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Social democrats demand shared parental leave
Politics: 30 Aug 08
The opposition Social Democrats have proposed changes to parental leave in a bid to improve equality. A move welcomed by their opposition partners.
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Massive illegal fishing trial underway in western Sweden
National: 27 Aug 08
Two of seventeen people charged with illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod from Swedish waters admitted wrongdoing on Wednesday in one of Sweden’s largest ever fish poaching cases.
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Sweden outlines EU presidency priorities
Politics: 28 May 08
Sweden, France, and the Czech Republic, who will fill the EU's rotating presidency from July, unveiled on Tuesday for their shared priorities in piloting the 27-nation bloc.
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Swedish Elks travel to Oz
Lifestyle: 26 May 08
Most Swedes will be bemused to learn they have a national Australian Football team. Nic Townsend meets the Swedish Elks before they travel to Melbourne for the International Cup.
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Sharks threatened by overfishing in Swedish waters
National: 15 May 08
Continued fishing threatens to kill off several species of sharks from Swedish waters, researchers warn.
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Swedish dads steer clear of paternity leave
Business & Money: 12 Mar 08
Swedish fathers enjoy one of the most generous paternity leave policies in the world but few dads take advantage of the opportunity, writes AFP's Sebastien Buffet.
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Sahlin pushes for more paternity leave
Politics: 11 Mar 08
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has said she is ready to fight to ensure that dads spend more time with their kids.
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Swedish journalists 'more left-wing than public'
Politics: 26 Sep 07
Swedish journalists' views diverge wildly from those of their readers, with the average journalist more left-wing than the public as a whole, according to a new Gothenburg University survey.
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First bear killed in hunting season
National: 21 Aug 07
The first bear has been killed in Sweden's bear hunting season, which got underway on Tuesday morning. A rising bear population in Sweden has led to raised hunting quotas this year.
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'No gender quotas in theatres'
Lifestyle: 7 Mar 07
Culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth has disappointed many in the world of Swedish drama by her opposition to compulsory gender quotas for theatrical productions.
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More ads to be allowed on Swedish TV
Politics: 15 Feb 07
Swedish terrestrial channel TV4 will soon be allowed to show as many commercials as its satellite competitors TV3 under proposals being put forward by the country's culture minister.
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Uppsala discriminated against Swedes
National: 21 Dec 06
Uppsala University has been convicted of discriminating against Swedish applicants to its law course. The university had operated a quota system which gave preference to less well-qualified immigrant students.
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Reinfeldt blocks gender quotas for top jobs
Politics: 11 Dec 06
The government is to retract the previous administration's goal of ensuring that 50 per cent of all top management jobs in state bodies go to women.
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Students appeal against positive discrimination
Society: 29 Nov 06
Two Swedish women who wanted to study law at Uppsala University had their applications rejected in favour of immigrant students with lower grades. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the university acted unlawfully.
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Few divide parental leave equally
Society: 7 Nov 06
Three decades after Sweden introduced parental insurance, only 2.6 percent of Swedish mothers and fathers divide parental leave equally between them.
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Olofsson: let state companies decide CEO bonuses
Business & Money: 27 Oct 06
Industry minister Maud Olofsson has said she wants to scrap the ban introduced two years ago on state-owned companies paying bonuses to CEOs.
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Hägglund launches Christian Democrat manifesto
Politics: 30 Jul 06
Better schools, better care for the elderly, and 'respect'. Those are the main themes of the Christian Democrat manifesto, launched this weekend by party leader Göran Hägglund.
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'Force dads to take more leave'
Politics: 14 May 06
The Social Democrat women's movement wants an extra month of parental leave to be reserved for fathers. But Göran Persson says no, citing a lack of support.
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Hennes and Mauritz Q1 profit climbs
Business & Money: 29 Mar 06
Swedish fashion retailer Hennes and Mauritz AB posted a first quarter profit after financial items of 2.7 billion kronor, up from 2.3 billion kronor in the same period last year, supported primarily by strong sales growth.
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Greenpeace fish protest targets Findus
National: 19 Jan 06
Three activists clambered up the facade of the head office of Findus on Thursday morning, protesting against the company's alleged sale of cod caught illegally.
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Swedish disappointment over Baltic cod quotas
Smörgåsbord: 22 Dec 05
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All I want for Christmas is the right to pollute
National: 14 Dec 05
For just 175 kronor environmentally-aware Swedes can pick up the latest must-have Christmas gift: a carbon dioxide emission quota. Just what you've always wanted.
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More women rising through Swedish companies
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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Feminists call for abolition of marriage
Society: 9 Sep 05
Couples are so passé. Sweden's Feminist Initiative wants to replace marriage and gay partnerships with a cohabitation law that applies to more than two people. A man with eight wives is not the target, says founder Tiina Rosenberg.
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Persson - reduce tax on alcohol
Politics: 16 Aug 05
Prime Minister Göran Persson says Swedish alcohol taxes should be reduced in order to preserve Sweden's restrictive alcohol policy. But the Green and Left parties say they will resist any attempt to make booze cheaper.
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Alcohol "costs Sweden 50 billion extra a year"
Society: 28 Jun 05
Sweden's alcohol consumption is up 30 percent since the mid-nineties, according to a teetotal lobby group. The government should reduce import quotas, the group says.
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New Masters degrees proposed
Society: 14 Jun 05
A raft of new measures are introduced which the government says will make Swedish universities more compatible with international standards. But students organisations say the changes will create a two-tier system in Sweden.
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Swedish company boards "could face sex quotas"
Society: 11 Jun 05
Sweden may be The Most Equal Country in The World® but the higher up the corporate ladder women climb, the more slippery it becomes. Now Justice Minister Thomas Bodström says men's dominance of business is "unnacceptable".
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Herring shortage spells problems for potent Swedish dish
National: 13 May 05
One of the strangest Swedish delicacies could be a lot harder to find this year. “Rotten herring”, or surströmming, could be affected by a catastrophic decline in catches.
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"Equality bonus" for parents who share parental leave
Society: 27 Feb 05
Last year Sweden's fathers only took 18% of the parental leave they were entitled to. That's not good enough for the government, which is now considering introducing financial incentives to lure dads away from the workplace.
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University's ethnic quotas declared unlawful
Society: 15 Jan 05
Uppsala University is forced to pay 75,000 crowns to two students who were refused places on the law programme because of their ethnicity. Both have parents who were born in Sweden.
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Swedish finance minister argues for drier EU
Smörgåsbord: 13 Dec 04
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Thailand in favour of Sweden's Gripen
Business & Money: 24 Nov 04
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New minister proposes 'period pain days'
Politics: 2 Nov 04
The new Equal Opportunities Minister and former TV celeb, Jens Orback, smooth-talks his way into office with something for the ladies as the dust settles on last week's cabinet kerfuffle.
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Swedish MPs "opposed to board gender quotas"
Smörgåsbord: 28 Oct 04
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Calculating foreigners
Society: 23 Sep 04
Education minister Thomas Östros plans to put an end to ethnicity quotas in colleges, while the number of people from the new EU countries seeking work permits in Sweden is up 74% on last year.
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The great equality debate - whither Swedish women?
Society: 18 Jun 04
Female politicians threatened with violence and too few women in the boardroom. Girls are doing better at school - but even that's just a trap, apparently. No wonder more Swedish women want to get their kit off for the camera.
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Meet Sanna, 9 years old
Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »
"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »
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