Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
A parliamentary committee is conducting a major investigation into Sweden’s approach to the COVID-19 virus. Especially in neighbourhoods with many immigrants and less social standards the impact was underestimated, it turns out. Tonight at 21:30 on Dutch Public TV in […]
UPDATED 18 December 2020 | Sweden, the country that took a whole different approach to the COVID19 pandemic, is solo surfing as 2021 is approaching. True, the central government in Stockholm has slowly changed its stand a bit and has […]
Many international media, including leading Belgian newspapers, published positive articles on COVID19 in Sweden September this year. But despite their optimism, the Corona situation in Scandinavia’s most populated and biggest country is doing far from good. I gave guidance in […]
How badly prepared Sweden was for any pandemic became painstaikingly clear right from the beginning of the COVID19 outbreak. Apart from the lack of basic medical supplies in the hospitals, protecting the elderly totally failed. The nurses taking care of […]
Throwing away between 720,000 and one million euro while trying to get the finances under control. A decision by its management has put the Uppsala Academic Hospital, a leading medical facility in Sweden, soon out of a good option to […]
When the Corona pandemic hit Europe there was one country that kept drinking beer at outdoor seating areas, one country where the people were smiling in the sun underneath cherry blossom trees. But despite media mass reporting how “relaxed” Sweden […]
More than a month after the heaviest rainfall in 400 years, the Danish capital Copenhagen is still struggling with the aftermath. Since Friday, the municipal council urgently advices all residents in the centre and surrounding districts to boil their drinking […]
Inhabitants of Finland have been hoarding for iodine pills after the explosions at the nuclear power plants in Japan. Finnish and Swedish media reported this on Monday. Many Finnish pharmacies had already run out of stocks on Friday. However, the […]