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02/12/2008

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Greider, Göran

3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Dala-Demokraten - Sweden | 14/08/2008

Blind media in the Caucasus

Göran Greider, chief editor of the daily Dala-Demokraten, disparages media coverage of the Caucasus conflict: "The coverage ... is one-sided and it looks like an old-fashioned Russian bogeyman is being dragged out to scare people. Georgia is practically a satellite of the US. ... I listened to an interview with [Swedish Foreign Minister] Carl Bildt on the radio today in which he was basically given the role of an independent expert. When at the end of the interview he was asked whether the Georgian leadership bears responsibility for the dramatic escalation of the conflict, his reply - after several attempts at evasion - basically boiled down to a no. And this pattern is repeated everywhere. A self-appointed Russia expert claimed that Russia has distanced itself from European values. Excuse me? Why were the UK and the majority of European countries not accused of distancing themselves from these values when they participated in the illegal war in Iraq? ... It is completely unreasonable that Carl Bildt's analysis appears to be setting the standard for the media's view on the situation."

Dala-Demokraten - Sweden | 03/04/2008

Nordic logistics company instead of the Swedish post ?

A fusion between Denmark and Sweden's state-owned postal services is to produce a listed Nordic logistics company. The majority shareholder in the new company, which will have around 50,000 employees, will be the Swedish state. The Swedish daily criticises the move: "Postal services should be regarded as a natural monopoly which is not subject to market mechanisms. Their activities are far too important for that. Moreover, they are part of the national identity, which rests on ever fewer common symbols but which is necessary for the democratic functioning of a country. This is why I was grieved to see Sweden deregulate its postal system in 1993, before most other countries did. The liberalisation resulted in a series of blunders: gigantic lump sum settlements and pensions for general managers who went on to become CEOs, and employees who are exposed to increasingly difficult conditions."

Dala-Demokraten - Sweden | 04/03/2008

Volkswagen takes over majority stake in Scania

Germany's Volkswagen group has acquired the majority stake in Swedish truckmaker Scania. The major shareholders of the Swedish Wallenberg family have sold their shares to the German automaker. The trade union at Scania is putting its trust in Volkswagen's promise to maintain the Swedish plant in Södertälje in operation. Göran Greider fears "the trade union is being somewhat naïve here" and writes: "When Volvo and Scania were planning a merger eight years ago, the European Commission put an end to their plans saying that the resulting group would have too large a share of the market. This basically means that in the long term the EU wants to prevent the creation of large companies in small countries while permitting companies that are just as huge and have an equally large share of the market in big countries like Germany. National capital - in this case that of the Wallenbergs - is no longer national and no longer interested in production. Quarterly profits now count more than production."

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