According to statistics from the National Board of Health and Welfare, the number of people being treated for gambling addiction is increasing. At the same time, there is no clear increase in gambling addiction among the population itself. Annika Hofstedt, head of department at the gambling addiction and screening health reception at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, believes it is difficult to determine the reason for this, but it coincides with a change in the law in 2018 that gives social services and nursing clearer responsibility for gambling addiction-related efforts. – All licensed Swedish gambling companies must now be affiliated with Spelpaus.…
Author: Raymond
As we drive around Danish country roads, you can think for a while about what a European car is. French brands have placed great emphasis on ensuring that their new electric cars are built domestically with French battery packs. Can it become more European? But then BID? The brand may be Chinese, but a BYD factory in Szeged, Hungary will soon open and be ready to produce Dolphin Surf cars. By doing so, BYD avoids both punitive tariffs and costly transport from China to Europe and shows that it is serious about its European investments. At home in China, the…
This is an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter. The author is responsible for the opinions in the article. Right now is the poorest week of the year from a children’s perspective. Many parents, not least single mothers, are waiting for support after struggling for weeks to give their children a decent vacation. That’s why we are now publishing the annual children’s rights report. This will introduce a targeted single parent supplement within the general child benefit. It would be a surefire investment that would effectively reduce the economic hardship of children in Sweden. Because something has to be done. Mayflower…
In Sweden the same rules apply to older and younger driving license holders. Renewing or obtaining a driving license as an older person does not require special health examinations, which is required in some other countries. “There is no research to show that it is better to introduce general age limits than to revoke driving licenses for purely medical reasons,” says Helena Selander, a researcher at VTI, Statens väg and Transport Research Institute, and lecturer in rehabilitation medicine at the University of Gothenburg, who studies older drivers. On the other hand, there are illnesses and injuries that mean that you…
Things are currently going so well for Ford Europe that 4,000 factory employees in Germany had to be laid off and sales are falling. What keeps them afloat are light transport vehicles. However, now they have decided to electrify their best-selling model in Europe, the Ford Puma, and the price starts at SEK 379,000. The comparable petrol version Puma ST starts at SEK 382,000, but an additional SEK 7,162 tax is added in the first three years. The Ford Puma Gen-E is based on the same platform as its petrol sibling and therefore had to make some compromises in terms…