The last Nordic country to join the alliance is still waiting for Turkey and Hungary to clear its path. ADVERTISEMENT Sweden edged closer toward joining NATO on Tuesday after the Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee greenlit a protocol for the Nordic country’s accession to the military alliance. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dropped his objection … Read more
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the previously nonaligned Nordic country closer to membership in the Western military alliance. Sweden’s accession protocol will now need to be approved in the Turkish parliament’s general assembly for the last stage of … Read more
The world’s advanced economies are heading into a deepening slowdown as markedly higher interest rates take a hefty toll on activity that could still become more acute, the OECD warned. Growth is losing momentum in many countries and won’t edge up until 2025, when real incomes recover from the inflation shock and central banks will … Read more
As Janne Andersson signed off Wednesday as Sweden coach, he assessed what his future might hold after spending the last seven years in what he described as “the best job in the world.” “Everything,” he said, rather glumly, “can only get worse.” Fans of men’s soccer in Sweden know the feeling. Farewell 2023, they’d say. … Read more
In 2003, in the small Finnish city of Vaasa, the great conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula was presiding over a masterclass for wannabe maestros. At the back of the concert hall was Anna-Maria Helsing, a local violinist in her early 30s, attending as an observer. “Jorma saw me come in every day, carrying my scores,” recalls … Read more
In a leafy neighborhood in Dusseldorf, Milena and Manuel David planned to break ground this summer on a new home, a milestone that was going to get them out of a cramped apartment where they share a bedroom with their two kids. But during the 16-month wait for a permit, mortgage rates had tripled and … Read more
Every year, 120,000 people ask Google whether they are the same country. ADVERTISEMENT Sweden’s tourist board has decided it is time to make it clear that the nation is not, in fact, the same country as Switzerland. According to Visit Sweden, the two countries are constantly being mixed up. To dispel confusion, the tourist board … Read more
Goldin becomes only the third woman to be awarded the prize since it was established in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank. ADVERTISEMENT Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard, has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the final prize of this year’s Nobel season. Goldin, a specialist in labor and economic history is … Read more
5 Hours Ago CNBC Pro: ‘Relentless pursuit of eyeballs’: Analysts name China internet stocks to buy — giving 2 over 50% upside Several stocks are set to benefit from the “relentless pursuit of eyeballs” in the Chinese internet sector, according to analysts at asset management firm AllianceBernstein. “We’re now seeing e-commerce related activity pick up … Read more
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