From: sundinKC@dna.lth.se (Anders Sundin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Dagens Nyheter April 6th
Date: 6 Apr 92 09:45:02 GMT
Organization: Organic Chemistry 2, Lund University, Sweden

Dagens Nyheter is Swedens largest morning paper. It has been
part of my breakfest for the last twenty years.

Today DN presented the main proposals for new subsidies to help
the retired to pay their rent. The KBT investigation was formed
with the hope that the 8000 million kr in subsidies could be
stretched to allow the retired to live in new expensive houses.
KBT main proposal costs 9600 million kr yearly.
6 kr is about 1 US dollar.

        The part of the rent that a single retired person with
        minimum pension should have to pay according to:

Rent    Today   KBT main   KBT larger   Social      The organisations
                proposal   proposal     democrats   for the retired

1500      80       360        200         150         100
2000     180       385        200         150         100
2500     680       410        200         150         100
3000    1180       435        200         150         100
3500    1680       460        200         250         100
4000    2180       485        200         350         100
4500    2680       510        200         450         100
5000    3180      1010        700         550         100
5500    3680      1510       1200         650         100
6000    4180      2010       1700         712         600
6500    4680      2510       2200         712        1100
7000    5180      3010       2700         712        1600

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Another article in DN is by Tuva Korsstr|m, cultural editor at
Hufvudstadsbladet in Finland.
She writes about the uncertain future of the Swedish language
in Euro-Finland. Here is a resume.

In Januari the Finnish teachers union requested that Swedish
should not be an obligatory subject in Finlands schools.
Tuva Korsstr|m writes about Edit S|dergran, born 100 years ago on
April 4th. Edit S|dergran was an European who wrote in Swedish in Finland.
She went to a German school in St Petersburg, and started writing poems
in German. She also spoke several other european languages.
The insecurity in both language and nationality of the modernists
in Finland was fruitful and creative. But Finland soon forgot their
polyglot international traditions. It is a pity, but no great surprise
since multilingualism in Finland is connected to both Russian and
Swedish opression.
There are indications that the Finnish-speaking majority in Finland
regards the Swedish dialect in Finland as unnessecary, alien, and
repulsive. On the streets of Helsingfors the Swedish-speaking avoid
using their mothers language. In Euro-Finland differences in skin
color or language are not appreciated.
Edit S|dergran is celebrated by the Swedish speaking Finns, and by
the rest of the world. But in Finnish Finland the uninterest is total.
-- 
 Anders Sundin           e-mail: sundinKC@dna.lth.se
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