Today in Sweden: A roundup of the latest news on Monday
Waiting times, chef shortages, and Erdogan calls the PM: find out what's going on in Sweden with The Local's roundup.
'Regions should work together to cut wait times for healthcare'
A government inquiry into long waiting times in healthcare has called for Sweden's regions to work more closely together to cut queues to see GPs and specialists, arguing that the current 'healthcare guarantee' system is not working.
"My feeling is that access to healthcare hasn't had the highest priority, perhaps because we have had good results from a medical point of view otherwise, and so people have contented themselves with that," said Gunilla Gunnarsson, the government's special investigator for healthcare, told TT.
The healthcare guarantee, which means people who should be able to see a doctor within three days, and a consultant within three months, is not being followed, she said.
Swedish vocab: att luta sig mot – to content yourself with
Swedish restaurants short 6,000 staff for summer
Swedish restaurants are struggling to hire staff ahead of this summer, with 6,000 restaurant jobs currently on offer at the Swedish Public Employment Service, Sweden's state broadcaster SR has said.
"There is a temporary shortage now as there are so many companies looking for staff at the same time, they are all competing over the same personnel," Emil Persson, a labour market analyst at the service told SR. "The shortage is going to disappear as more and more companies succeed in recruiting, but then there's also a long-tun shortage remaining."
He said the solution was to educate more people as chefs.
Swedish Vocab: en brist – a shortage
Finland expects Turkey hurdle to delay Nato process
Finland's foreign minister Pekka Haavisto has said that he expects it to take several weeks to overcome Turkey's objections to Sweden and Finland's Nato membership.
"I'm optimistic that we will reach a solution to the problem, but it might take time," he told Finland's state broadcaster Yle.
Haavisto said that Finland is ready to give Turkey the guarantees it demands over support for groups with alleged links to the PKK terror group.
"A few days ago, I said that this question would need to be discussed for several days, now I can cautiously say that this is going to be discussed for several weeks," he said.
Swedish Vocab: påstådd – alleged
Turkey's Erdogan unyielding in call with Swedish PM
Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded that Sweden end its "political, economic and weapons support for terror groups, in a call with Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson on Saturday.
The call came on the same day that Erdogan gave a similar message to UN Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
"Unless Sweden and Finland clearly show that they will stand in solidarity with Turkey on fundamental issues, especially in the fight against terrorism, we will not approach these countries’ Nato membership positively,” Erdogan told Stoltenberg.
Turkey has long accused Nordic countries, in particular Sweden which has a strong Turkish immigrant community, of harbouring extremist Kurdish groups as well as supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the US-based preacher wanted over the failed 2016 coup.
Swedish Vocab: att ställa krav – to make demands
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'Regions should work together to cut wait times for healthcare'
A government inquiry into long waiting times in healthcare has called for Sweden's regions to work more closely together to cut queues to see GPs and specialists, arguing that the current 'healthcare guarantee' system is not working.
"My feeling is that access to healthcare hasn't had the highest priority, perhaps because we have had good results from a medical point of view otherwise, and so people have contented themselves with that," said Gunilla Gunnarsson, the government's special investigator for healthcare, told TT.
The healthcare guarantee, which means people who should be able to see a doctor within three days, and a consultant within three months, is not being followed, she said.
Swedish vocab: att luta sig mot – to content yourself with
Swedish restaurants short 6,000 staff for summer
Swedish restaurants are struggling to hire staff ahead of this summer, with 6,000 restaurant jobs currently on offer at the Swedish Public Employment Service, Sweden's state broadcaster SR has said.
"There is a temporary shortage now as there are so many companies looking for staff at the same time, they are all competing over the same personnel," Emil Persson, a labour market analyst at the service told SR. "The shortage is going to disappear as more and more companies succeed in recruiting, but then there's also a long-tun shortage remaining."
He said the solution was to educate more people as chefs.
Swedish Vocab: en brist – a shortage
Finland expects Turkey hurdle to delay Nato process
Finland's foreign minister Pekka Haavisto has said that he expects it to take several weeks to overcome Turkey's objections to Sweden and Finland's Nato membership.
"I'm optimistic that we will reach a solution to the problem, but it might take time," he told Finland's state broadcaster Yle.
Haavisto said that Finland is ready to give Turkey the guarantees it demands over support for groups with alleged links to the PKK terror group.
"A few days ago, I said that this question would need to be discussed for several days, now I can cautiously say that this is going to be discussed for several weeks," he said.
Swedish Vocab: påstådd – alleged
Turkey's Erdogan unyielding in call with Swedish PM
Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded that Sweden end its "political, economic and weapons support for terror groups, in a call with Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson on Saturday.
The call came on the same day that Erdogan gave a similar message to UN Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
"Unless Sweden and Finland clearly show that they will stand in solidarity with Turkey on fundamental issues, especially in the fight against terrorism, we will not approach these countries’ Nato membership positively,” Erdogan told Stoltenberg.
Turkey has long accused Nordic countries, in particular Sweden which has a strong Turkish immigrant community, of harbouring extremist Kurdish groups as well as supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the US-based preacher wanted over the failed 2016 coup.
Swedish Vocab: att ställa krav – to make demands
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