Well, I am writing this in the form of an extended comment, since I am on holiday and using the ecellent wifi facility in the local public library, but am about to go fo lunch. As I realised as I was going to sleep last night, my last Sweden post was always going to cause [...]
The founders of Pirate Bay have sold their stakes in the company. The controversial site hit headlines earlier this year when Peter Sunde, Carl Lundström, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg were found guilty of “assistance to copyright infringement”, sentenced to a year in prison, and fined €2.8 million in a Swedish court.
Jane Hamsher and I got a chance to meet and interview Rickard Falkvinge, the head of the Swedish Pirate Party. The party is devoted to patent and copyright reform (they’re not big fans of either), and they also focus on eavesdropping laws (that they don’t like either). The party is loosely affiliated with [...]
French skippers Sebastien COL, Damien IEHL and Mathieu RICHARD all won through their quarter-final matches at Match Cup Sweden to line up in the final four with six-time champion Peter GILMOUR of Australia.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry summoned Iran's ambassador on Friday as part of a coordinated EU protest over the detention of British embassy employees in Tehran.
FORMER University of South Florida men's soccer standout Kevon Neaves has signed a professional contract with the Swedish second division soccer club Koping FF. Neaves was invited to join the Trinidad and Tobago national football last year under Colombian coach Francisco Maturana but did not make the final cut. Neaves, a midfielder from Petit Valley played for USF from 2005-08 and recorded 13 goals...
With a two month break before the next event, in Saint Moritz, Switzerland the team will use the time off from the World Tour to persue other sailing projects both as a team, with owners and individually. For more information regarding the team's itinerary in the months of July and August you can email each team member individually for a copy of their sailing CV and calendar Helm - Torvar Mirsky -...
Brussels blog (Tony Barber): It seems light years ago now, but I once had a delightful Swedish friend whose father, reflecting on his distinguished career in...
Sweden's Riksbank has cut interest rates a quarter point to 0.25pc and signalled emergency stimulus until late2010 fearing that the downturn will prove deeper than previously expected.
The minutes from the Executive Board’s monetary policy discussion will be published on 16 July. The decision on the repo rate will apply with effect from Wednesday, 8 July. The deposit rate is at the same time cut to -0.25 per cent and the lending rate to 0.75 per cent. Negative interest rates sound like some [...]
Xasaan Xuseen, the spiritual leader of al Shabaab, is scheduled to speak at the Bellevue Mosque in Sweden. Is this part of al Shabaab's recruitment of Somalis from the US, Candada, Britain and Scandinavia? Islam in EuropeThe invitation of a...
The power generation systems market offers great opportunities for U.S. exporters, due to the fact that it’s the main focus of Sweden. For instance, American companies can export power grid hardware, in order to help modify the current Swedish grid infrastructure. U.S. exporters dominate the computer software market in Sweden. For instance, in 2007, imports from U.S. reached an estimated $1,684 billion