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Los Angeles/Ottawa (DNA) - From dissatisfaction with the Trudeau government to dissatisfaction with Trump’s policies — compounded by general anxiety around tariffs, the economy and a deteriorating relationship with the U.S. — navigating an economic downturn should be an immediate priority for Canada as it heads into a federal election, a new report recommends. In the long-term, however, it says Canada will need greater economic diversification and regional representation. “Although it is wealthy by global standards, Canada’s economy faces key vulnerabilities such as excessive reliance on extractive industries, shortages of critical goods like housing and heavy dependence on exports to the U.S.,” states a Canada BGI Report on the country’s governance performance, released a little more than ten days before the April 28 federal election. The report, based on the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI), was conducted by researchers from the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute think tank, the L

WSP har utsettt Aishat Bislieva till ny Chief Human Resources Officer för WSP Sverige. Med den här rekryteringen kommer vi ytterligare stärka engagemanget i våra medarbetares utveckling och bidra till att positionera WSP som en ledande arbetsgivare.

31.3.2025 Cologne (ots) | CIVIS Media Prize 2025 – 29 nominees for Europe's most important media prize for integration and cultural diversity have been shortlisted: Candidates for the CIVIS Media Prize include entries from ACB Stories, BR, cocktailfilms, Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandradio, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, kurhaus production Film & Medien, Little Dream Pictures, maximage, MDR, Neue Bioskop Film Leipzig, ORF, Pyramide Films, rbb, Salaud Morisset, SRF, Studio Zentral, SWR, Turbokultur, watson.ch, WDR and ZDF.

The Council on Ethics for the Swedish National Pension Funds sums up a year of active engagement. The proactive work addresses important systemic issues, including antimicrobial resistance and the extraction of critical metals and minerals for the green transition. The outcomes during 2024 also show continued progress in the reactive company dialogues.

The year 2024 was impacted by the strong US economy and new record levels in the US stock markets. Easing inflationary pressures and weaker real economic growth prompted more central banks to cut policy rates in 2024 than the world has seen in many years. Through a carefully considered portfolio positioning and focused execution, Första AP-fonden's return landed at 9.9%.

Underwater drones adapted to cold Nordic waters, and sensors that listen to the sounds of fish eating. These are some of the AI solutions that could give European sea farmers a boost to compete globally. Researcher Fredrik Gröndahl explains how maching learning is being developed take on operational challenges and reduce costs in aquaculture, particularly in inaccessible waters far offshore.

The prosecutor has today indicted a woman with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes in Raqqa, Syria, between 2014 and 2016. This indictment is the first in Sweden to try the Islamic State’s attack on the Yazidi minority. It is also the first indictment in Sweden for crimes against humanity. The prosecutor is available to the media by phone after today’s press conference.

Heatwaves in sub-Saharan Africa are predicted to become more common due to climate change. A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and others, published in Nature Medicine, reveals a worrying correlation between high temperatures in the final week of pregnancy and an increased risk of stillbirth and early neonatal mortality.

London (DNA) - A decline in effective national governance and the "long-term scars" caused by austerity measures and Brexit have stifled economic growth and undermined social cohesion in the United Kingdom, according to a study. Researchers concluded that an incoming government must make up for "lost" decade and a half since the global financial crisis in 2008, with urgent structural changes required to prevent "severe problems" impacting citizens' quality of life. With the General Election in the UK approaching on July 4, polls suggest Labour is on course for a return to power for the first time since 2010. But researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Hertie School, a university in Berlin, Germany, have warned the next government will face "several interlocking crises" caused by past failings, with a decline in the quality of governance identified as the key cause. The report highlights that the UK’s governance has repeatedly been among the highest perfor

Hilding Anders, Europas ledande sängtillverkare, är klarvaken för framtida EU-bestämmelser om digitala produktpass och tar hjälp av Blue Cromos (också baserat i Malmö) för att förbereda sig.

A Non Smoking Generation och generalsekreteraren Helen Stjerna tilldelas Världshälsoorganisationens prestigefyllda pris World No Tobacco Day Award 2024. Priset delas ut till individer och organisationer som har gjort exceptionella insatser i arbetet med att förebygga och begränsa tobakens alla skadeverkningar.

Vancouver, Canada, May 14, 2024 – Shareholders of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) are urging the company to assess whether it has lived up to its own commitments to respect workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Nu inleder Arbetsmiljöverket en tre veckor lång tillsynsinsats av arbetsgivare inom särskilt olycksdrabbade branscher. Insatsen är en del av en kampanj som alla EU-länder och Norge deltar i. Ett viktigt syfte är att dela lärdomar mellan ländernas arbetsmiljömyndigheter.

9.4.2024 Cologne (ots) | CIVIS Media Prize 2024 – 25 nominees for Europe's most important media prize for integration and cultural diversity have been shortlisted: Candidates for the CIVIS Media Prize include entries from Aamu Film Company, ACB Stories, ARTE, Deutschlandradio, electronic media school, La Fémis, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, funk, France 2, HFF München, hr, MADE IN GERMANY Filmproduktion, MDR, NDR, RTL+, (SIC) Pictures, SWR, Undone, UFA Documentary, WDR and ZDF. Festival films could also be submitted for the first time. The complete list of nominees can be found here as well as in the press section of the CIVIS Media Foundation website. Close to 900 productions from television, radio and the Internet were submitted for the CIVIS Competition 2024. For the first time, they came from all 27 EU member states and Switzerland. The productions, each in their own specific way, deal with highly topical issues such as war, flight, labour migration, racism, anti-Semitism, antizi

The work of the Council on Ethics during 2023 has in large part focused on the new organisation with a new strategy, and intensive work with the selected focus areas. Of many important sustainability topics, five focus areas have been prioritised: Antimicrobial resistance, Child labour and forced labour, Climate, Big tech and human rights, and Water.

Idag lanserar TechSverige "Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, Sweden" – en unik plattform som är en del av ett omfattande EU-initiativ för att främja digital kompetens och inkludering i Sverige och hela Europa. Plattformen ska utgöra det centrala navet för alla som söker kunskapsutbyte eller information om aktiviteter, insatser och utbildningar med målet att stärka sin egen eller andras digitala kompetens. Sverige är en av 21 medlemsstater inom EU som har lanserat sin nationella plattform.

Öppet seminarium med internationella och svenska forskare och arbetsmarknadsexperter.

Så kallad ”labour hoarding”, eller övervintring av personal, är ett fenomen som även förekommer på svensk arbetsmarknad. Nu visar en ny undersökning från Unionen att brist på kompetens, kostnader för rekrytering och hopp om en kort lågkonjunktur gör att företagen behåller personal.

Stora grupper immigranter leder till nya utmaningar på arbetsmarknaden. Nyanlända uppmuntras ofta att söka jobb, och inom lantbrukssektorn är behoven stora. En ny studie från Högskolan i Halmstad visar de möjligheter och utmaningar som såväl jobbsökande, arbetsgivare som arbetsförmedlare står inför. Ett par viktiga framgångsfaktorer är språk och körkort.

In the first half of 2023, global-fixed income and equity markets recovered from the sharp market downturn of the previous year. It seemed as if the world’s investors struggled to interpret risk, and between prolonged periods of slow activity, the tentative upturns grew almost unnoticeably stronger. Despite an uncertain and volatile market, Första AP-fonden contributed positively to the stability of the income pension system with a return of 6.6 per cent and reported net investment income of SEK 27.8 billion. Assets under management totalled SEK 446.4 billion at mid-year.