Jonas Sloth Sandell himself has competed in ski jumping for both Norway and Sweden. For Sweden he took part in two Junior World Championships and the World Championships in Falun in 2015, but did not achieve any higher placings. But his commitment to sport led him to his current career. – It all started in 2016 when I was injured and then started flying behind the others in the team in Trondheim. Since then there have been many years of training, many repetitions. “That led to me having to go to the Olympics and fly after a lot of the…
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This is a review. The author is responsible for the opinions in the text. Non-fiction books Nina Nazarova and Svyatoslav Khomenko “Stolen childhoods. How Russians kidnap Ukrainian children and how Ukrainians are fighting to get them back” Trans. Ola Wallin Replacement, 276 pages They know that there are bad times when children become a little too important. When they don’t exist simply because someone longed for them, but become a matter of the nation and its future. When suddenly more children are needed, and the right ones. By the time the Kremlin began spreading the message that they needed to…
With Canada defeated and the final spot in the Olympic curling tournament secured, family happiness reigned in the interview zone. Four children rushed in to pay tribute, but most importantly to meet their mothers. Sara McManus lifted her three-year-old son Mac in her arms and told her that mom and her friends had secured another Olympic medal. She praised the support from the stands, where parents and the Swedish men’s team were also present. – I felt it the whole time. “I looked up and waved and blew kisses to Mac,” she said, apologizing for the tears streaming down her…
January–March 2025 ● In the first months of his return to the White House, Trump is focused on America’s three largest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China. Temporary tariffs will be imposed on February 4 and lifted two days later. However, China’s remains. ● On February 10, Trump imposes global steel and aluminum tariffs of 25 percent. ● Trump will introduce new tariffs against Canada and Mexico on March 4th – at the same time, the China tariffs will be raised to 20 percent. ● On March 13, Trump threatened 200 percent tariffs on European wine and spirits after the…
When Trump decided to impose tariffs on most of the US’s trading partners last spring, he claimed there was a state of emergency in the US. That would give him the authority under a 1977 law to regulate trade on his own, without congressional approval. This is incorrect, according to the US Supreme Court, which issued its opinion on Friday. IEEPA, the law Trump is citing, does not give him the right to impose tariffs. According to Reuters, IEEPA has been used in the past to impose sanctions on other states or freeze assets. Tariffs and taxes are usually a…
According to the Supreme Court, Congress, not Trump, should decide on general tariffs. “I feel reassured that the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is choosing to uphold the provisions of the U.S. Constitution,” said Robert Bergqvist. – From a constitutional point of view, this amputation is extremely important. When tariffs are deducted Then prices in the US could fall more quickly, which would have a positive impact on growth and inflation in the short term. – The problem is that we don’t know what Donald Trump’s next move is. Bergqvist believes that the constitutional dimension is still many times…
According to Ulf Kristersson (M), there is a great need for “good AI in Swedish”. – This requires a high-quality Swedish language model, the Prime Minister said at a press conference on Friday. The Swedish language model will be developed by researchers in collaboration with the Publishers’ Association, the Writers’ Association and Tidningsutgivarna, as well as media companies such as Bonnier News, Schibsted, SVT and SR. The model is trained using public data, but also books and news articles from Swedish publishers, authors and media companies. “With this project, we are setting the rules for how AI development will take…
One by one, the selected five-mile runners pass the Swedish press corps. Everyone assures that they are fine. But two are missing. – He felt a little runny when he woke up, but we still decided he should try skiing this morning. Then he feels that his body is not reacting, that he has an infection, says national team doctor Rickard Noberius about William Poromaa. Even Frida Karlsson has a slightly runny nose. But while the men’s five-mile course takes place on Saturday, the women’s first race is on Sunday, so there is some hope that the symptoms will subside.…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. What conclusion did the court come to? The charges concern the so-called IEEPA tariffs, which are based on a law that gives the president the power to regulate international trade in the event of a national emergency. For example, after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, the law was used to stop funds suspected of going to terrorist organizations. However, the Trump administration has taken a much broader interpretation, using the law, among other things, as support for the…
The government has reformulated the rules on state support for fossil exports. The new rules pave the way for Sweden to start promoting fossil gas energy in other countries again through the Export Credit Board, after previously promising to phase out this type of support. Energy company Siemens Energy AB has long been running a lobbying campaign to persuade the government to relax regulations, DN revealed on Friday. According to several experts, the decision to rewrite the rules contradicts Sweden’s promises in the climate negotiations. Now MP, C and V are criticizing strongly against the government’s actions in this matter.…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. I just have to think back to last weekend (February 14th) and the incredibly long and cruel start of the women’s relay. SVT broadcast the season. Unfortunately. Anyone who has ever seen a relay knows what can happen – and also knows that it always happens. Someone completely runs away on the first stretch, hits the famous wall and ends up two minutes behind. Someone else breaks a stick or drops a ski. Someone steps over your leg and you lose both your…
In a basement in Bakhmut, Alina Sarnatska slept an average of two hours a night. After researching gender-based violence at Kiev University, she suddenly found herself having to measure blood pressure, control fever and treat colds and acute illnesses such as appendicitis. – It was a very strange experience. Many people are afraid of not being sufficiently educated, including working people. I became a nurse overnight and didn’t know anything about it. Sarnatska was helped by a gynecologist in Lviv, over a thousand kilometers away, who answered her questions around the clock. One day a lawyer heard it She came…
It’s starting to become a trend. Or at least a tendency. On the shelf for new arrivals are two collections of Swedish short stories. These are “Your New Zodiac Sign” by Jonas Karlsson and “The Guests” by Martin Kalin. The former is a lazy short story writer with several collections behind him and now one in front of him. The latter is a debutant and seems promising. The first short story is called “The Mandarin Spirit” and it takes strange paths in an interesting way. A short story that contains an outlandish phrase like “My loneliness vibrated.” makes me want…
Artist Charli XCX was at the Berlin Film Festival this week with her mockumentary “The Moment.” On the occasion of the film’s Berlin premiere on February 14th, the artistic team organized an afterparty together with a party collective led by Russian DJ Anastasia Shevtsova. Shevtsova also DJed during the after-party. Several Ukrainian artists and activists drew attention to the fact that Anastasia Shevtsova is the daughter of Zhanna Shevtsova, who heads the Russian Traditsiya foundation. Charli At Traditsiyas The website says that since 2023, the foundation has launched projects in “the new regions of the Russian Federation,” such as the…
When Orvesto’s latest reach report came out on Wednesday, it confirmed the dire trend that many newsrooms had been seeing in their internal statistics. The decline of paper newspapers has been going on for some time, but now there is also a serious decline in digital reading. For several magazines, this meant a decline in digital reach of more than 50 percent in just one year. The magazines most affected include Leva & bo from Expressen, but also several titles from the Aller Media group. For example, Svensk Damtidning and Hänt Extra each fell by almost 300,000 digital readers compared…
Before he succeeded Ola Sigvardsson as Allmänheten’s media ombudsman in 2021, Caspar Opitz worked, among other things, as a foreign correspondent and editor-in-chief at Dagens Nyheter. When he returns to the newspaper, 26 years after his first job, it will take on the role of foreign affairs officer and deputy editor-in-chief. – It feels a bit like coming home, says Caspar Opitz. As an ombudsman for public media – a role funded by the media itself – Opitz was responsible for ensuring that Swedish media adhered to the industry’s ethical guidelines. He says the job felt meaningful “every second” but…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. Last weekend, another American politician took the podium and told Europeans that the rights of the strong now prevail and that libertarian Europe needs to become less libertarian and more Maga. For some reason, the threatening message was applauded by the Swedish Minister for Civil Protection. Carl-Oskar Bohlin was apparently so impressed by the reactionary atmosphere that he thought it was appropriate stand up and clap their hands. While it feels decidedly unsafe to be represented by a minister who liked what he…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. Will there be a rate cut this spring or not? It is brewed in bank offices, storefronts and at home at kitchen tables. Speculation gained momentum when the minutes of the Riksbank’s last meeting were published a few weeks ago, followed by a recent inflation report for January that showed price pressures continuing to ease. Several banks have begun lowering their fixed mortgage rates, but have not yet touched variable rates. When Statistics Norway published the detailed January figures on Friday, nothing really…
This is a review. The author is responsible for the opinions in the text. opera “The Olympics” Music: Antonio Vivaldi. Libretto: Pietro Metastasio. Translation: Rikard Bergqvist. Musical direction: Peter Spissky. Director: Charlotte Engelkes. Scenography and lighting: Linus Fellbom. Costume: Anna Ardelius. Mask and wig: Theresia Frisk. Choreography: Sofia Södergård. Playwright: Tuvalisa Rangström. Cast: Stephen Yeseta, Ebba Lejonclou, Amie Foon, Sally Lundgren, Solveig Bergersen, Erik Rosenius, Bernt Ola Volungholten and others. Stage: Folkoperan, Stockholm. Duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes including a break. The timing is grateful in Olympic times. Antonio Vivaldi has been rediscovered as an opera composer in recent…
On January 23 this year, a doctor at Huddinge Hospital calls Tomas Nilsson, a senior investigator in the Swedish Medicines Agency’s Illegal Drugs Group. According to the report obtained by DN, a patient was hospitalized with a “very strong reaction/shock (probably allergic)” after injecting black market Mounjaro. “This is the first time I have heard that a patient in Sweden is suspected of having suffered serious side effects from this type of preparation,” says Tomas Nilsson. However, he believes there may be a large number of people who have suffered side effects from illegally purchased slimming drugs. – If you…