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...attendees themselves were even more strident. "The bonus bubble burst tonight," said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the E.U. presidency. He said inaction on bonuses would be a "provocation in Europe, especially when set against a steep rise in unemployment." And British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said there would be no return to the bonus structure of the past. "I am personally appalled by some of the practices that have been going on at some institutions," he said...
...Freedom of speech is an indispensable part of Swedish society.' FREDRIK REINFELDT, Sweden's Prime Minister, defending the publication...
...Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt - whose country has just taken over the E.U.'s six-month presidency - has acknowledged that the 27-nation bloc has a delicate balancing act to perform. He told reporters on Wednesday that the E.U. should show support for calls for reform from the people of Iran but "must not polarize Iran from the rest of the world so that we are made an excuse for the use of violence and oppression inside Iran." (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...Fredrik Fan Cheung-fung was born in Hong Kong in 1989. He did not witness the events of that restless summer; he never saw hunger strikes or tanks in the streets. But, he says, he inherited the legacy of the attack on student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that left hundreds, if not thousands, dead. Twenty years after the crackdown, just shy of his 20th birthday, Fan embarked on a 64-hour fast of his own, setting up camp outside a busy shopping center in Hong Kong's Times Square, some 1,240 miles (2,000 km) from Beijing...
...piracy online continues as well. A court in Stockholm on Friday found the four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing sites, guilty of breaching copyright law for allowing its users to illegally access music, movies and TV shows online. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered to cough up $3.6 million to a raft of entertainment firms - from EMI to Columbia Pictures - bilked, said the court, out of valuable revenues. The decision, said John Kennedy, boss of the International Federation...