NordenBladet – SAS suffered a loss of SEK 1.9 billion in the third quarter. The loss is largely due to the pilot strike, which cost the company SEK 1.4 billion.
SAS presented the results for the period 1 May to 31 July on Friday morning. The company records a loss of SEK 1.9 billion. The result last quarter was minus 1.6 billion Swedish kroner.
In the wake of the corona pandemic, large parts of the airline industry have struggled to rebuild their business. For SAS, this has meant that they had to cut 4,000 flights out of a total of 75,000 in this year’s summer programme. Then came the strike.
– I truly apologize to all our customers and partners who were affected by the traffic disruptions, writes SAS’ CEO Anko Van der Werff.
SAS Scandinavia’s pilot associations went on strike between 4 and 19 July. Around 4,000 flights were cancelled, and more than 380,000 passengers were affected by the strike, reports SAS.
The loss is even greater than analysts predicted ahead of the week’s results.
There was generally a stable demand for travel in the summer quarter, and SAS experienced an increasing number of passengers wanting to travel when the restrictions around the world were removed.
NordenBladet – Norwegians traded cross-border for NOK 3.6 billion in the 2nd quarter. This means that cross-border trade is back at the same level as before the pandemic.
New figures from Statistics Norway (SSB) show that Norwegians shopped for NOK 3.6 billion across the border during April, May and June this year.
“Cross-border trade has quickly risen to the same level as in the years before the pandemic,” says adviser Kristin Aasestad from Statistics Norway.
The quarterly figures now show that cross-border trade is at a level that corresponds to the second quarter of the years from 2016 to 2018. In the second quarter of 2019, cross-border trade was just over NOK 4 billion.
NordenBladet – 175 new asylum seekers from Ukraine to Norway were registered on Thursday. A total of 829 new asylum seekers were registered in the last week.
On Wednesday and Tuesday, 141 and 116 new applications for asylum from Ukrainian citizens were registered respectively.
UDI began providing an overview of Ukrainian asylum seekers to Norway on 25 February. Since then, there have been 23,461 applications.
NordenBladet —Today, Chairmen of Foreign Affairs Committees of seven countries made a joint statement calling for stronger sanctions against Russia and increasing support for Ukraine, as well as for suspending tourism and restricting the issue of entry visas to Russian citizens.
“As Chairs of Foreign Affairs Committees of our respective Parliaments, in response to the continued — unprovoked and unjust — war of aggression waged against Ukraine by the Russian Federation, we:
note the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, a sovereign country, is a gross violation of international law, including the UN Charter;
emphasise that since Russia’s unprovoked military attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, twelve million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes and over five million have been forced to flee their country;
refer to several reports by human rights groups and international monitoring missions about atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces against Ukrainian civilians, including torture, rape, murder and mass detention of civilians in so-called filtration centres, as well as mass deportations;
underline the immoral and illegal nature of the tactics chosen by Russia, the widespread use of especially cruel, imprecise weapons that maim and cause special suffering – Russia, by using this type of ammunition, violates international norms. Russian forces in Ukraine are using internationally banned cluster munitions to sow fear and indiscriminately kill civilians;
stress that the deployment of Russian military personnel and weaponry at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant – Europe’s largest nuclear power plant — is unacceptable and disregards the safety, security, and safeguards principles outlined in the Seven Pillars of Nuclear Safety and Security;
note that the presence of Russian military forces at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant prevents the operator and the Ukrainian authorities from fulfilling their nuclear and radiation safety obligations per international conventions;
urge the Russian Federation to immediately withdraw its military forces and all other unauthorised personnel from the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, its immediate surroundings, and all of Ukraine;
reiterate our strongest condemnation of the ongoing unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The Russian Federation must immediately withdraw its troops from within Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders and respect Ukraine’s territory and sovereignty;
call on the Euro-Atlantic community and its partners to urgently strengthen and implement comprehensive sanctions against the Russian Federation to stop the ability of the Russian army to continue its military aggression in Ukraine, to increase military, financial, humanitarian and diplomatic support to Ukraine, to unanimously support initiatives that condemn Russia’s military actions in Ukraine and calls bring the perpetrators to justice, isolate Russia from international and regional organisations, as well as adopt equivalent decisions and establish equivalent sanctions against Belarus as a supporter of Russian military aggression;
call on Member States of the European Union and other western allies to immediately suspend tourism and limit the issuance of entry visas for tourism of citizens of the Russian Federation;
commemorate all the victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine – thousands of civilians and defenders of Ukraine;
express solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”
The statement has been signed by the Chairmen of Foreign Affairs Committees of Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. On behalf of Estonia, it was signed by the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu Marko Mihkelson.
Delegations from the foreign affairs committees of the parliaments of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland are currently in Ukraine to jointly show their support for Ukraine and to gain a deeper understanding of the current situation of the war there.
“This visit is a demonstration of support for the Ukrainian people who have made enormous sacrifices and continue to do so to preserve their independence, territorial integrity, and democracy. Our goal is to help Ukraine in any way we can to win the war and in dealing with its consequences,” declared the Chairs of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the four countries.
The Chairs condemn the Russian Armed Forces’ serial violation of international law and the perpetration of war crimes in Ukraine. Since February, Russia’s unprovoked military attack has forced twelve million Ukrainians to flee their homes and over five million have had to flee the country. “Human rights groups and international monitoring missions have reported on atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces against Ukrainian civilians, who have been tortured, raped, murdered and held in mass in so-called filtration centres, or have been deported. This is unforgivable,” state the heads of the delegations.
The four Chairs emphasise that the price of the aggression must be raised as high as possible for Russia. “The European Union has adopted seven sanctions packages to put pressure on Russia. The last sanctions package, which entered into force on July 21, banned the import of Russia’s other major export article – Russian gold – and forbade one of Russia’s largest banks – Sberbank – from conducting transactions outside Russia. But this is not enough. We will continue making proposals for strict and efficient sanctions in the next sanctions packages,” the Chairs promised.
Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Finnish delegations will meet their Ukrainian colleagues and inspect the damage caused by Russian armed forces in Irpin, Borodyanka, and Chernihiv, and visit the common grave for war victims in Bucha.
The four delegations are headed by the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu of Estonia Marko Mihkelson, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas of Lithuania Laima Andrikienė, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saeima of Latvia Rihards Kols, and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Eduskunta of Finland Jussi Halla-aho.
NordenBladet – Ophthalmologist Jens Kratholm sentenced to two years in prison. The verdict was handed down in Midtre Hålogaland district court yesterday (24.08).
Kratholm was charged with fraud for each and every treatment he carried out with patients, because he was paid extra for the services, police attorney Trond Lakselvhaug explained to VG when the indictment was issued.
According to NRK, there are 33,000 cases of fraud involving a total of 10,300 patients, and with a scope of NOK 13 million.
Jens Kratholm appealed the verdict on the spot, writes the local newspaper Fremover.
NordenBladet – On Wednesday evening, Norway received the year’s first three deliveries of F-35s from the factory Lockeed Martin in the USA. The Norwegian Defense Forces reports this on its website.
Norway receives six of these aircraft each year. According to the plan, Norway will receive a further three new F-35s this year, bringing the total to 40. Ten of the aircraft are stationed in the United States to train and educate new F-35 pilots.
NordenBladet – A hijab ban in primary school is one of the proposals from a Danish commission that has looked at how minority women can be guaranteed the same rights as other women.
-“When someone wears a hijab, it shows that Danish Muslims are different from other Danish girls,” says commission leader Christina Krzyrosiak Hansen to the Ritzau news agency.
“When you are a little girl and go to primary school, you should be allowed to just be a child. If someone finds out later in life, when they are adults, that they want to wear a headscarf – of their own free will – we don’t get involved,” says Hansen.
“But we have to talk openly about this happening. No one believes that an eight-year-old girl takes it on all by herself,” she adds.
The government-appointed commission has made recommendations that apply to girls from ethnic minorities.
In addition to hijab bans in schools, it recommends, among other things, that children’s groups in day care “should reflect the population”.
They also want courses in modern Danish education to be given to “selected minority ethnic parents”, and they want to strengthen sex education.
No figures have been presented on how many wear the hijab at school or how many feel pressured to wear a headscarf.
Earlier this year, the commission announced that it would make recommendations in three stages. The first should be about children, the next two will be about young people and adults.
Immigration and Integration Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek has not responded to Danmarks Radio’s question about how the government relates to the recommendations that have been made.
NordenBladet – Stavanger Aftenblad (aftenbladet.no) writes on Thursday about a 42-year-old man, who was convicted by Sør-Rogaland District Court for driving an electric scooter while under the influence of alcohol.
He was given an 18-day suspended sentence and a fine of NOK 88,000, the newspaper writes.
On Wednesday, a 40-year-old woman was also given an 18-day suspended sentence and she must pay a NOK 80,000 fine.
This comes two days after new rules for driving electric scooters were introduced.
NordenBladet – Several vulnerable patient groups are too little involved in clinical studies that evaluate treatment effect, diagnostics and rehabilitation.
Now 45 million kroner is allocated to reduce inequalities within the health sector, writes the Research Council (Forskningsrådet) in a press release.
In four different projects, researchers will examine children with autism, people with dementia, the mental health of minority youth who have fled alone to Norway and children and young people with chronic kidney disease.
“There is a need for more research that can develop health services and contribute to good and accurate diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation,” says CEO of the Research Council Mari Sundli Tveit.
