Today in Sweden: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday
More ID checks for foreigners, SAS shares plummet and MPs pose with Kurdish terror group flag. Find out what's going on in Sweden with The Local's roundup on Wednesday.
SAS shares plummet in Stockholm after US bankruptcy proceedings
Shares in the troubled Scandinavian airline SAS fell 10 percent in Stockholm after it announced that it would start bankruptcy proceedings in the US.
"We simply need to do much more and do it much faster," SAS chairman Carsten Dilling told a press conference where he defended what he called "a well thought-through decision."
In the US, Chapter 11 is a mechanism allowing a company to restructure its debts under court supervision while continuing to operate.
The move was made in order "to proceed with the implementation of key elements" of its business transformation plan, the troubled carrier, which employs nearly 7,000 people, said in a statement.
Swedish vocab: ett rekonstruktionsförfarande – a reconstruction process
Sweden to boost stop-and-search of immigrants in Sweden
Sweden's police and coastguards are to be given powers to search people for passports and other ID if they refuse to voluntarily help verify that they have the right to live or work in Sweden.
"The ability to carry out body searches is critical if we are going to be able to identify foreigners who do not voluntarily agree to demonstrate that they have the right to be in the country," she said.
– Möjlighet till kroppsvisitering är avgörande för att kunna identifiera en utlänning som inte frivilligt medverkar till att klarlägga om han eller hon har rätt att vistas i landet. Givetvis kommer det att krävas en grundad misstanke för att visitera människor, säger Andersson.
Swedish vocab: kroppsvisitering – a physical body search
Nato begins ratification process for Swedish membership
Nato on Tuesday kicked off momentous accession procedures for Sweden and Finland, aiming to expand the military alliance to 32 countries in reaction to Russia's war in Ukraine.
But the alliance has no current plans to send troops to Sweden and Finland once they complete the membership process
, the defensive alliance's deputy chief told AFP on Tuesday.
"We don't plan to have an additional presence in either country, they have formidable national forces. They're capable of defending themselves," Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana said in a telephone interview.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned last week that "if military contingents and military infrastructure were deployed there, we would be obliged to respond symmetrically and raise the same threats for those territories where threats have arisen for us".
Geoana said that "we don't plan to have Nato bases in these two countries, because they have a very high level of military and strategic maturity".
After the accession process was launched Tuesday, it is up to parliaments in all 30 member states to ratify Oslo and Helsinki's membership of the Atlantic alliance.
Denmark and Canada ratify Swedish Nato membership
Denmark and Canada both ratified Sweden and Finland's membership on Tuesday, just hours after the ratification process was launched.
"I'm proud that Denmark has hit our goals of welcoming Finland and Sweden into Nato as fast as we have," said Denmark's foreign minister Jeppe Kofod.
"We are stronger together," Canadian foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, wrote on Twitter.
Norway's foreign minister, Anniken Huitfeldt, has signed the protocol after it was approved in advance by the country's parliament, and it will be submitted to Nato on Wednesday.
Estonia's Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, is calling in her country's parliament to ratify the protocol on Wednesday.
Swedish vocab: att skriva under – to sign
Left Party MPs pose with flag of Kurdish party classed as terror organisation
Nooshi Dadgostar, the leader of Sweden's Left Party, posed for photos on Tuesday while waving the flag of the PKK, the Kurdish group classed as a terror organisation by the US and EU, as well as by Sweden.
The Left Party MPS Daniel Riazat, Momodou Malcolm Jallow and Lorena Delgado Varas held up the flag for a photo that was then published in the Aftonbladet newspaper.
"We are not backing down over this," said Lorena Delgado Varas to the newspaper. "These are organisations that are resistance movements, which have a democrat organisation, a feminist organisation, in a context where Turkey is a dictatorship."
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SAS shares plummet in Stockholm after US bankruptcy proceedings
Shares in the troubled Scandinavian airline SAS fell 10 percent in Stockholm after it announced that it would start bankruptcy proceedings in the US.
"We simply need to do much more and do it much faster," SAS chairman Carsten Dilling told a press conference where he defended what he called "a well thought-through decision."
In the US, Chapter 11 is a mechanism allowing a company to restructure its debts under court supervision while continuing to operate.
The move was made in order "to proceed with the implementation of key elements" of its business transformation plan, the troubled carrier, which employs nearly 7,000 people, said in a statement.
Swedish vocab: ett rekonstruktionsförfarande – a reconstruction process
Swedish vocab: kroppsvisitering – a physical body search
Nato begins ratification process for Swedish membership
Nato on Tuesday kicked off momentous accession procedures for Sweden and Finland, aiming to expand the military alliance to 32 countries in reaction to Russia's war in Ukraine.
But the alliance has no current plans to send troops to Sweden and Finland once they complete the membership process
, the defensive alliance's deputy chief told AFP on Tuesday.
"We don't plan to have an additional presence in either country, they have formidable national forces. They're capable of defending themselves," Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana said in a telephone interview.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned last week that "if military contingents and military infrastructure were deployed there, we would be obliged to respond symmetrically and raise the same threats for those territories where threats have arisen for us".
Geoana said that "we don't plan to have Nato bases in these two countries, because they have a very high level of military and strategic maturity".
After the accession process was launched Tuesday, it is up to parliaments in all 30 member states to ratify Oslo and Helsinki's membership of the Atlantic alliance.
Denmark and Canada ratify Swedish Nato membership
Denmark and Canada both ratified Sweden and Finland's membership on Tuesday, just hours after the ratification process was launched.
"I'm proud that Denmark has hit our goals of welcoming Finland and Sweden into Nato as fast as we have," said Denmark's foreign minister Jeppe Kofod.
"We are stronger together," Canadian foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, wrote on Twitter.
Norway's foreign minister, Anniken Huitfeldt, has signed the protocol after it was approved in advance by the country's parliament, and it will be submitted to Nato on Wednesday.
Estonia's Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, is calling in her country's parliament to ratify the protocol on Wednesday.
Swedish vocab: att skriva under – to sign
Left Party MPs pose with flag of Kurdish party classed as terror organisation
Nooshi Dadgostar, the leader of Sweden's Left Party, posed for photos on Tuesday while waving the flag of the PKK, the Kurdish group classed as a terror organisation by the US and EU, as well as by Sweden.
The Left Party MPS Daniel Riazat, Momodou Malcolm Jallow and Lorena Delgado Varas held up the flag for a photo that was then published in the Aftonbladet newspaper.
"We are not backing down over this," said Lorena Delgado Varas to the newspaper. "These are organisations that are resistance movements, which have a democrat organisation, a feminist organisation, in a context where Turkey is a dictatorship."
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