SwedeInternational @SwedeIntl

a little blog on politics in Sweden, in English swedeinternational.com Joined June 2019

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SwedeInternational @SwedeIntl

2 years ago

…the response has been a collective ho hum. But the fossil fuel reduction obligation and immigration aren’t going to go away. swedeinternational.com

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Type in "GDPR uninten" ... and the rest is filled in by Google automatically. The latest unintended consequence is the demise of the school photograph. Not a big deal, perhaps, but most certainly something that the regulators didn't see happening. 1 min swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Löfven was fuzzy on the details - it was, after all, a summer speech. Vacationers can go back to sipping umbrella drinks. But a group that might want a stiff drink are the municipalities who could be forking over a bigger sum than they counted on. 1 min swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Fredriksen isn't after commuters, she says, but adds that "it can't be so that people can travel from Sweden to Denmark and plant dynamite in Copenhagen" 1 min. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Things got a little prickly after the Norwegian PM’s “you sure hear a lot of Swedish at those far-right extremist marches here in Norway.” Anders Ygeman had his grade-school level response ready – basically “Oh yeah? Well, right back at you.” swedeinternational.com 1 min read

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6 years ago

Would you contribute to your bank’s “stability” by paying them to hold your hard-earned kronor? Rumours have begun to circulate that having to pay a bank to hold your savings isn’t as foreign a concept as once thought. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Meanwhile, Sweden statistics has opened for making room for a third gender, and has sought out responses (remissvar) from a slew of other government agencies. It makes you wonder, when a statistics agency, of all agencies, is ahead of the curve. 1 min. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

According to Bloomberg, the tax has tripled. Stockholm Exergi, Eon and Göteborg Energi are quoted saying they’ll be cutting or halting power production - but it won’t effect heating. It may effect your wallet tho so check your bill in the coming months swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Last July, purchases were way, way down because of the the bonus-malus incentive that was just going into effect. Then, people thought "New car right now? Um, no." But now, it's more like "Bonus-malus-shmalus. We still need a new car (or light truck)." swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

OK, it’s pretty Swedish anyway, sort of & we can point to our innovation index ranking for a way of getting some Spotify cred. (Yay teachers!) So here’s the Spotify news: It’s still not that profitable. 13 years now and barely a check in the plus column. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Sweden’s second quarter GDP was lower than expected, coming in at 1.4%. The Swedish central bank, whose measures the governnment uses for its work, thought it’d be 1.8%. So that’s not so great, but perhaps not a signal to freak completely out. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Saving the International Library in Stockholm (or not) one suitcase of books at a time. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

The report looks at each country’s innovation input (like institutions, human capital, business sophistication) and output (like knowledge and creative output), and Sweden came out 2nd. Not so shabby! swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Sweden and the EU disagree on regulating electricity companies, but Sweden’s going ahead anyway. Lucky electricity consumers who have been hit hard by price increases can hope for up to a 20% cut in their elecricity bill. Stay tuned for EU’s response. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Rocky IX: Behind Bars. A new movie? Former PM Bildt has responded to Trump’s tweets, but so far (and to his credit, because what could he possibly say?), Löfven has declined. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

It doesn’t help the UK’s case that they are essentially asking for help in defending the unharrassed passage of oil tankers. Oil tankers don’t exactly have a lot of likes in Sweden. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

deliveries in the Stockholm region are already delivered in electric vehicles, and 90% of Ikeas’s transport in Sweden is also fossil-fuel free, but Ikea is going for more on the domestic side. Swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

It’s complicated. Plus, and this is obviously embarassing for Skatteverket and its fans, it wasn’t actually illegal in most cases – it was just sort of morally corrupt. swedeinternational.com

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6 years ago

Sending out an SOS for the SEK at swedeinternational.com. Dn.se reports that the economic research firm Capital Economics predicts an even weaker krona by the end of the year. What gives?