Pst Index headlines 20-03-2011

Swedish football superstar, Zlatan sell house in Malmö and emigrate

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Even wealthy Swedish star such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic have decided to leave Sweden. He is selling his house in his home town of Malmö and will move aborad and set up base some where else.

Criticism of new Swedish business with Saudi Arabia

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Ewa Björling, Swedish Minister of Commerce (left) and Jörgen Holmquist Director-General of Internal Market and Services at the European Commission.
Sweden has tried to sell a comprehensive monitoring system to Saudi Arabia, media reports in Sweden say. This has ignited more criticism for that Sweden is gradually looking at weapons export as its main economic stay.

Swedish companies and entrepreneurs would favour Reinfeldt more than Löfven

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldlt is still the big favourites for the country’s entrepreneur community.

Sweden leading the way for increased arms exports – another report show

Monday, 19 March 2012

Swedish arms export increased significantly more than average, according to a new report by the Swedish Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. The report also shows that Syria has increased its arms purchases many times over.

How much do big Swedish companies’ managers earn?

Monday, 19 March 2012

Earnings of head of Swedish Giant Corporation exposed in a different way by Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter as questions about corporation tax payments in Sweden rage on. See list and worth

Swedish communes threatened by pension time bomb. Some authorities are worried but commune politician are oblivious.

Monday, 19 March 2012
Swedish municipalities have pension liabilities of Skr216 billion leading to nearly four in ten municipalities insolvent in under generally accepted accounting principles.

Danish voter anger over politicians’ golden pension ratio

Political wrangling in the U.S. could threaten the Norwegian’s aircraft Purchase – reports

Sunday, 18 March 2012
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Norwegian budget airline, Norwegian has announced that it was to make a purchase of a large number of planes from the USA but the company now fears that the political wrangling in the USA could affect the aircraft purchase business.

It has taken 12,000 years for Norwegian population to reach 5 million people. Monday made it possible for that to happen and even passed as Norway hit five million people.

Non – Finnish language speakers, a very fast growing minority and must not be ignored

Sunday, 18 March 2012
An increasing number of people living in Finland have a mother tongue other than Finnish, Swedish or Sami. In fact, the country will soon boast of a large number of non native speakers to the number of the current Swedish-speaking Finns.

How some 1.206 Swedish Big Corporation get away with paying no taxes or very little taxes if they like to pay

Sunday, 18 March 2012
The argument has always been that big corporations will employ more people and contribute more to the state treasury in the way of increased tax intake. This is one of the reasons why Sweden is so observed with big corporations and would do all to pursue them weakly when it come to checking if they are paying their fare share of taxation…Right? Wrong!

Iceland makes early repayment of its loan to the Nordic countries and the IMF

Friday, 16 March 2012

Iceland’s remarkable economic turn around continue and the island country has now decided to repay some of its loans earlier that previously scheduled. This has to do with the repayment of its loan of Ikr116 billion or some Skr6.2 billion to the IMF and its Nordic neighbours.

Graduates with Economics background quickly get jobs after graduation as unemployment in Sweden starts falling

Thursday, 15 March 2012
Nine out of ten graduates with economics and business background in Sweden today have jobs within the first six months even though the subject sector has been declared over -crowded.

Intel invests in Swedish IT-company

Thursday, 15 March 2012
The U.S. processor giant, Intel is partnering in Swedish IT Company Tobii Technology through an investment of Skr143 million, reports technology newspaper, Computer Sweden.

Careless Swedish defence official sent Secret Saudi material via an unencrypted e-mail

Thursday, 15 March 2012
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The notes from secret talks with Saudi Arabia sent in an unencrypted e-mail via a private hotmail account of an under-secretary at the Swedish Department of Defense.

Leap year day boost for fashion chain H & M sales

Thursday, 15 March 2012
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Fashion chain H & M sales in stores open at least a year by 2 percent in February. The increase is due to the extra leap day in the month. But analysts would still be happy because sales were better than anticipated.

Swedes prefer to fly from Denmark

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Southern Swedish travellers prefer to use the Danish international airport at Copenhagen to travel abroad more than using their own local airport at Malmo Sturup.

Finns believe in no heaven or hell – once dead that is it!

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
A shrinking number of Finns believes in life after death, according to the research institute of Finland’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. A third of Finns say there is no hereafter, writes the Christian newspaper Kotimaa.

Fast broadband, a common future in Sweden

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
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Nearly half of all households and businesses in Sweden last year had access to fast broadband.

The number of poor children in Sweden increased by 28 000 as politicians remain oblivious

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
The number of poor children in Sweden has increased by 28,000 since last year.

Half of Oslo to have immigrant backgrounds in 2040 – new data reveal

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Almost half of the population in Oslo, the capital of Norway in 30 years will be made up of people with an immigrant background. Of those seven out of ten would have come from countries outside the EEA a latest report from statistic Norway show.

Mortgage ceiling has had effect – Swedish FSA

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Mortgage ceiling which the Swedish government implemented to try and dampen the extraordinary rise in the Swedish house prices as well as to combat the astronomical rise of Swedish household debt has been determined to have worked. But work in what context remains questionable.

Fall in Swedish energy prices expected soon

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
The warm spring weather may means that the electricity prices in Sweden will fall and February’s price rise shock becomes a distant memory. Electricity prices in March are 50 percent lower than last year.

Danish Prime Minister: Homosexuals can get married in Churches this summer

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
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The Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt has made it clear that gays and lesbians may soon marry both in the town hall and church in Denmark.

Danish Prime Minister, Thorning named among the most courageous women

More Young Greeks are studying the Swedish language, hoping for a better life here in the future

Swedish EU commissioner to make it easier to confiscate criminal funds in the EU

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
The Swedish EU commissioner, Cecilia Malmström is unveiling a bill at the EU level that will make it easier for police to crack down on crimes across the EU. In so doing will hit hard on the earnings of criminals and thus confiscate their earnings from criminality.

Swedish politician also after the big individual money as ex-politicians are paid record-high compensations

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Design with graphic input from Parliament and Departments
How productive are politicians? This question is very important in the wake of news that more Swedish politicians and ex- politician fixed their lives for good with increased pays and benefits. This is similar to company’s bosses that pay themselves big bonuses irrespective of the performances of their companies.

The dream of starting a company is paramount in most entrepreneurs’ minds but the fear supersedes

Monday, 12 March 2012
Becoming an entrepreneur and starting ones own business is often one of the world’s top dream aspirations for many people but many still have it hard to dare take the step and many also need help to get started.

Correlation between tough economic times and the strengthening of far rights

Demands for higher start up wages in the Swedish health care has an effect

New method pitted to be effective in curing skin cancer

Monday, 12 March 2012
A new treatment of malignant skin cancer tested in Sweden has shown impressively promising results.

Swedish Defence hardware surplus was sold to Saudi Arabia

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It has now emerged that many of the visual gun carriages and anti-tank missiles Saudi Arabia purchased from Saab in recent years came from the Swedish armed forces’ arsenal.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, fears of a new, violent unrest after a U.S. soldier has shot and killed 16 Afghan civilians.

Social Democrats are gradually making a comeback as opinion polls keep them on the lead in the Red – Green coalition

Monday, 12 March 2012

The Social Democrats party in Sweden has taken a giant step up and increase it support by 7.7 percentage points to 29.6 in the new YouGov opinion survey, indicating that leadership and “stuck in the past” ideology was dooming the party.

Many poor children in Swedish cities as more families are alienated from the economy stream

Monday, 12 March 2012

News that Sweden is not a land of opportunity for some set of immigrants is not new but that things have not changed for many years remain strange as more and more children of deprived background live in abject poverty in city lock outs.

Desperate and creepy Swedish top management increasingly snooping into employees’ personal data – something illegal

Saturday, 10 March 2012

It has become more common in Swed en that company’s top management have become intrusive into the personal lives of those they want to employ. This is something illegal but with the job market here almost collapsing, employers can break the law and still sue the employee on top of it.

Swedish Companies illegally reveal the background of people on the web

Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish PM approved Swedish participation in the development of weapons factory in Saudi Arabia

Friday, 09 March 2012

Despite all the media wrangling, Swedish Prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt is reported to have approved the participation of Sweden in the construction of the weapons factory in Saudi Arabia.

Swedish central bank governor, Ingves please with massive profits in banks despite outcry

Even Swedish politicians too can tell good lies. Sten Tolgfors now accepted that he knew about the Swedish arms business to Saudi Arabia

Cloetta factory in Alingsås to close

More exposé of Swedish arm business to dictatorships – Swedish arms may have been used in Bahrain

Thursday, 08 March 2012
The Swedish Inspectorate for strategic products, ISP, has given the green light to a long list of weapons that different companies have sold and those which they want to sell to Saudi Arabia. Two of these weapons are identified to have been used against protesters in Bahrain.