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...Leijonborg and part of a four-party alliance, have admitted to using advance insight into SDP initiatives to design their policies, but deny having known that the information was obtained illegally. "I was told the SDP would have a senior citizens campaign and that it came from a leak," Barbro Westerholm, a member of the party board, told daily Svenska Dagbladet. "I now understand it was no leak but hacking. I feel deceived." The revelations came towards the end of what had been an uneventful election campaign, centering on unemployment and welfare. Polls had consistently shown a slight lead...
...financial aid to newcomers, has reduced the number of people seeking asylum there from 12,500 in 2001 to less than a third of that this year. Largely as a result, asylum applications in Sweden have gone up 40% since 2001. Nevertheless, Swedish Migration Minister Barbro Holmberg last week vowed to expand Sweden's intake of asylum seekers to include people persecuted for their gender or sexual orientation. Britain, a prime European destination for asylum seekers with some 100,000 arrivals a year, expects to halve the annual figure in 2003. Tougher screening plus the closure a year...
Ahmed will hold a joint appointment with the Committee on African Studies, the Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Barbro M. Ek, assistant to the director of the Committee of Middle Eastern Studies, said yesterday...
There is still plenty of opposition to women ministers in Sweden, and last week ' Barbro was refused permission to preach in the cathedral of Linkoping. Another handicap is her tranquil good looks. "This is not a suitable attribute for a priest," thundered one church magazine after her ordination. "Her beauty might awaken wrong feelings in male parishioners...
...Barbro, on the other hand, finds that as a woman minister she is able to communicate with young people, especially girls, "who are able to talk to me about things they could not tell a male priest." Barbro is well liked by her parishioners who seem to share her contempt for the Pauline shibboleth. "The time we live in " she says, "requires that both men and women help carry out and spread the teachings of Christ. Tradition is to help people, and not to bind them...