European
Union Visitors Program
(EUVP)
What is the
European Union Visitors Program?
The European Union Visitors Program (EUVP) enables
young leaders from countries outside the European Union
to obtain first-hand impressions of the European Union's
policies, Institutions and achievements and to
increase mutual understanding between professionals from
non-EU countries and their EU counterparts.
The EUVP is jointly supported and administered by the
European Parliament and the European
Commission.
It has been in operation since 1974
A EUVP visit consists of an individual five- to eight-day
programme of
meetings with EU officials at the EU institutions in Brussels,
Strasbourg
and /or Luxembourg.
All programmes are coordinated and arranged by the
EUVP Secretariat in Brussels.
Each visit is custom tailored
to the wishes of each participant and takes place during the
following year. Travel and hotel costs for the round trip are co
vered by the EUVP. As well, a per diem is paid to
each participant to cover meals and incidentals.
Who is eligible to participate?
Eligible participants must be Canadian citizens or permanent
residents of Canada
between the ages of 25 and 45 and have a
career-related interest in the EU. They include government
officials (municipal, provincial, federal), journalists,
trade unionists, educators and officials of non-profit,
non-government organisations.
Participants will have completed university education, or
equivalent training and will already gained some years of
professional experience.
The EUVP is neither open to students nor to business people.
How are participants selected?
EUVP participants are selected by a Committee chaired
jointly by a Member of the European Parliament and a
Member of the European Commission. Four visitors from
Canada are selected each year.
Only successful applicants will be contacted after the
deliberations of the Selection Committee which usually
take place in Brussels
in the fall.
How to apply?
Online at www.delcan.ec.europa.eu/euvp
What is required when filling out the form?
description of applicant's current position and
area of expertise
brief
outline of sector to be studied (e.g. agriculture,
environment, social policy, etc.) indicating how it
relates to applicant's career objectives
up-to-date
curriculum vitae (short description and
no list of publications)
The yearly deadline for applications is March 31st with
the visit to be made the following year.
Any
further questions should be addressed to the EUVP
Liaison Officer, at the Delegation of the European
Commission to Canada by phone at (613) 238-6464
or by fax at (613) 238-5191 or by e-mail at
delegation-canada@eeas.europa.eu
Click here for more info about the EUVP
The deadline is March 31st.
Your
help in spreading the word about the EU Visitors Program -
that is, about this opportunity for Canadians to visit Europe
on
a personalized one-week all-expenses paid study tour, is much
appreciated
Teppo Tauriainen
Swedish Ambassador to Canada
SWEDISH EMBASSY IN CANADA:
Postal Address: Telephone: E-mail:
377
Dalhousie Street +1 (613) 244 8200 sweden.ottawa@foreign.ministry.se
Ottawa ON K1N 9N8
CANADA
Visitors' address: Fax: Web site:
+1 (613) 241 2277 www.swedishembassy.ca
First champagne, now 200-year-old beer
salvaged in the Baltic Sea.
• Shipwrecked
champagne brand still a mystery
Divers salvaged the world's oldest
drinkable beer from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
on Thursday, just days after work began to retrieve dozens of bottles of
200-year-old champagne, local officials said.
"We believe these are by far the world's oldest bottles of beer,"
Rainer Juslin, a spokesman for the local government of Åland, said in a
statement.
The beer bottles were unearthed from a shipwreck believed to be about
200
years old -- as divers were recovering bottles of what is thought to
be the
world's oldest drinkable champagne, discovered in July.
The enviable haul, found intact on the seabed at a depth of
50 metres
(yards), comes from an unidentified wreck which the
Aaland authorities believe
sank off the coast in the early 1800s.
"The constant temperature and light levels have provided optimal
conditions for storage, and the pressure in the bottles has prevented any
seawater from seeping in through the corks," Thursday's statement said.
The champagne bottles alone are estimated to be worth tens of
thousands of
euros.
Aaland, a semi-autonomous province
of Finland,
legally owns the
contents of the wreck, but has yet to determine what to do
with the champagne.
Source: Swedish Wire
Europe's largest clothing retailer, Spain's Inditex, is taking its
flagship Zara brand online, but it can expect stiff competition from
other giants of high-street fashion already well-established in
cyberspace.
Sweden's H&M,
Europe’s second-largest clothing retailer, has been selling online
since 1998 in seven countries, including Germany, and plans to move
into another major market, Britain, on September 16.
Scandinavian airline SAS said Wednesday it plans to host the first-ever
in-flight gay wedding in December, and is searching for a suitable couple to
walk down the airplane aisle.
"It will be a very traditional wedding," SAS spokesman Anders
Lindström told AFP. "There will be wedding cake and dancing in the
aisles."
SAS is accepting entries from gay couples who wanted to celebrate their
nuptials mid-flight from Stockholm to New York on December 6,
with the winning entry will be chosen by an online vote.
The airline said it would pay for the winners' tickets, hotels and honeymoon
in Los Angeles,
and cater the on-board banquet, albeit with a special wedding menu instead of
normal passenger fare.
Linstroem said SAS was playing catch-up to US airlines, who have spent years
courting gay, lesbian and bisexuals in the United States with targeted
marketing and sponsorship campaigns.
• Export companies hike Sweden’s economy
• All major Swedish banks pass EU stress test
• Sweden's economy grows faster than expected
After
recovering from the Baltic crisis Swedish banks have seen a historic
revitalization and today enjoys their biggest gains in at least 15
years.
Sweden's banks ride stock market rally after amazing recovery.
SOURCE: SWEDISH WIRE
Zimbabwe's largest mobile operator, Econet Wireless,
has secured a 60-million-dollar loan facility from Swedish export
credit agency EKN to expand its infrastructure.
• Ericsson has delivered 2 million radio base stations
• Ericsson doubles profit – but misses forecast
The
loan would see Swedish telecoms equipment supplier Ericsson installing
additional equipment to expand Econet's infrastructure in the capital
Harare, the company's largest subscriber base.
Econet chief executive officer Douglas Mboweni said the facility would be used to buy equipment to improve efficiency in Harare.
"Our
customers in Harare are increasingly buying mobile phones, and this
means we require more capacity and capability on the network," Mboweni
said in statement.
Zimbabwe's mobile phone penetration is around
40 percent, according to industry estimates, with Econet claiming four
million subscribers in a nation of about 12 million people.
Source: Swedish Wire
SAAB AND SPYKER BOYCOTT
SWEDISH BUSINESS DAILY
Last Tuesday Sweden’s leading business daily Dagens Industri wrote
that Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker, that has bought Saab from General
Motors, had fallen out with its main financier, Russian billionaire
Vladimir Antonov, and that the problems could hurt Spyker and Saab’s
ownership structure and funding.
But the article lacks any
factual basis, both Spyker and Saab said. Therefore the companies has
decided to stop all interactions with the Swedish newspaper.
"Spyker
and Saab have always been open towards the newspaper and have never
ceased to respond to any questions posed by Dagens Industri," Victor
Muller, CEO of Spyker and Chairman of Saab, said in a statement.
"However,
the result of this cooperation has been a series of speculative and
often negative articles related to the ownership structure of Saab and
the relationship with Vladmir Antonov in particular. These articles have
been lacking facts and have been damaging for Spyker, Saab and Vladimir
Antonov. As a consequence, we will with immediate effect stop all
interactions with Dagens Industri. It is unfortunate that we need to
take such steps, but enough is enough."
Rescued by a last-ditch,
400-million-euro (495-million-dollar) purchase by Dutch luxury car
maker Spyker, Saab is entering an era of independence, after spending
20 years as a General Motors brand.
SOURCE: SWEDISH WIRE
EXPORT COMPANIES HIKE SWEDEN'S ECONOMY
Sweden headed for the biggest economic rebound in the EU.
Eighty percent of Sweden’s biggest companies reported earnings that
exceeded analysts’ estimates last quarter, according to a sum-up by
Bloomberg. At the same time the country’s economy grew faster than
expected.
The figures indicate the largest Nordic economy may be headed for the biggest economic rebound in the European Union.
The
upbeat numbers are mainly explained by strong performance from the
country’s exporting companies, generating more than half the country’s
economic output.
“Exporters are recovering more rapidly from the
latest plunge,” Nordea Bank AB economist Torbjörn Isaksson told the news
bureau. “As the export sector was the hardest hit during the crisis,
gross domestic product and capacity utilization are now rising sharply;
the strong recovery in the Swedish economy continues.”
SKF,
the world's biggest supplier of ball bearings, a vital component of
machinery everywhere, reported a big increase in profits in the second
quarter. Demand for trucks also is a leading indicator of activity in
every sector of the economy, and two of the main European truck makers, Scania and Volvo in Sweden, have reported unexpectedly strong second-quarter results.
“The
strong performance of Swedish companies is due to their exposure to
strong export markets combined with strong cost controls and high
margins,” Hans Peterson, global head of investment strategy at SEB Bank,
told Bloomberg. “Sales are in many cases still at low levels compared
with 2007 and therefore, stable growth going forward is a blessing for
Swedish exporters, which make up a large part of the market.”
Sweden's GDP
increased by 3.7 percent in the second quarter in working-day adjusted
figures when compared to the second quarter of 2009. Exports increased
by 14 percent and imports by 18 percent. The numbers are stronger than
expected.
Sweden recently raised its key interest rate from a
historic low 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent, reporting a strong economic
recovery in the country which along with several Nordic neighbours
appears to be leading Europe out of crisis.
Since the turn of the year the OMX Stockholm 30 index is up almost 13 percent, touching its highest point this year.
“Many
foreigners like Sweden because of its cyclical exposure, but also
because the krona is expected to get even stronger as the Riksbank so
clearly has shown it will continue to raise the key rate, which is not
the case in Euroland or the U.S.,” Martin Guri, an equity strategist at
Nordea told Bloomberg. “If you as a foreigner buy Swedish shares, a good
relative performance could come both from the stock index and the
currency.”
Source: Swedish Wire
Sweden
calls new EU budget control “strange”
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
said he opposed a proposal from Brussels to impose new budget controls on EU
countries, saying it was “strange” it should concern countries with good public
finances like Sweden.
“That this should concern all countries is
something we find a little strange” he told a press conference in Stockholm
after the European Commission proposed Wednesday that EU countries submit their
national budgets to Brussels for “peer review” before they go to national
parliaments.
“This kind of discussion could perhaps be
possible for (countries) with a budget, policy that goes against the (EU)
stability and growth pact,” he said. “But countries like Sweden, we are
shining exception with good public finances and don’t even come close to the
limits one is not permitted to surpass. It is not fair to treat us the same
way,” he said.
After many years of budgetary surplus, Sweden posted the EU’s lowest public deficit
last year, representing 0.5% of GDP, according to Eurostat far below the more
than 10% of GDP deficits posted in other EU countries such as the UK, Greece,
or Spain.
Public dept represented 42.3% of GDP in Sweden in 2009. According to the
European Commission, Sweden’s
deficit should reach 2.1 % of GDP this year before shrinking to 1.6 percent of
GDP in 2011. The government plans a return to surplus in 2012.
Source: The Local
Sweden a “safe harbour” during eurozone chaos
Investors flee to the non-eurozone
Scandinavian country to find a refuge from debt-ridden eurozone economies. Due
to the country’s comparatively stable banking sector and low exposure to Greece and other troubled economies more and
more investors eye Sweden
as a safe harbour.
When the Baltic countries’ economies
collapsed, investors fled Sweden
because of its bank’s investments there. Today, they are flocking to the Nordic
country as a refuge from dept-ridden southern Europe.
Compared to most European banks, Swedish banks are less exposed to the troubled
eurozone countries. Scandinavia is views by
many investors as a safer place to put money considering the debt crisis
affecting the euro-zone countries.
On Swedes joining the Euro:
In a poll by Demoskop from April, 2010 55%
of Swedes were opposed to joining the Euro and 37% for joining the Euro – 8%
were undecided.
The pervasive image of Sweden as a high-tax country is incorrect,
says the man who helped Ikea and Tetra Pak leave in the 1980’s.
One
day in 1976, world famous author Astrid Lindgren, the creator of Pippi
Longstocking, published the story “Pomperipossa in Monismania” in the
Swedish newspaper Expressen. The story was a satire over the fact that
she had to pay 102 percent of her income in taxes, and it is speculated
that the debate that followed resulted in the first defeat in an
election for the Social Democrats in 40 years.
The image of
Sweden as a country with brutally high taxes has stuck with people
around the world. But things have changed, at least if you ask Göran
Grosskopf, the man who helped IKEA and Tetra Pak move their
headquarters and ownership structures from Sweden due to tax reasons in
the 1980’s.
“Ownership of the companies would have remained in
Sweden if the conditions then were comparable to what they are today”,
Grosskopf told the newsletter for the conference Transfer of Ownership
in Private Business, which will take place in Stockholm on March 25-26.
Sweden’s tax structure has changed significantly during recent
years. The corporate tax at 26.3 percent is not high compared to other
countries, and the taxes on personal wealth, gifts and inheritance have
all been abolished.
“When I started working with this,
inheritance tax within the immediate family was 50 percent. It drained
companies. Even when the tax was lowered to 30 percent, the nominal
amounts were still very high. Many business owners found it difficult
to accumulate personal savings outside of the company, and it was
difficult to create resources to finance the tax.”
Source: Swedish Wire
READ MORE: SWEDEN A TAX HAVEN
GTMA Sees Partnership with European Trade
Group
Helping to Bring Investment and Jobs to GTA.
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The Greater
Toronto Marketing Alliance (GTMA) has launched a partnership with the European
Union Chamber of Commerce
(EUCOCIT) to help develop closer trade and investment realionships between Europen Union countries and the Greater Toronto Area.
The
Swedish-Canadian Chamber of Commerce (SCCC) is a member of EUCOCIT.
Monika G. Lindmark is representing the SCCC as a Director on the EUCOCIT Board
of Directors.
in Toronto A reception at the Ontario Investment and
Trade Centre in downtown Toronto drew consular representatives from many
countries within the European Union, as well as political leaders from all
levels of Canadian governments and private-sector partners of the GTMA.
Sandra
Pupatello, Ontario Minister of Economic Development and Trade, said
organizations like the GTMA, EUCOCIT and their partners are helping to increase
awareness in European Union countries of opportunities in the GTA and Ontario.
“EUCOCIT is
going to be a big player in getting information to companies that are
interested in learning how they can benefit from direct investment here,” she
told the consular corps. “You can help us make the linkages we
need. Sessions like this are a perfect example of how well we can work
together to serve everybody’s purpose.”
The European
Union and the Government of Canada are negotiating to develop deeper bilateral
trade relationships and remove barriers to investment. A negotiation
process is under way aimed at completing a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
(CETA) within two years to establish free trade across a wide range of sectors.
Lou Milrad,
Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the GTMA, said, “As organizations
committed to greater economic cooperation and the attraction of investment to
the GTA, both the GTMA and EUCOCIT believe it’s important to establish a formal
working arrangement that will help us take advantage of the opportunities that
CETA will bring.
“This
partnership is just one more example of the GTMA’s ability and willingness to
reach out and create important strategic alliances. We believe that a
relationship between the GTMA and EUCOCIT will be of benefit to our partners:
municipalities, colleges and universities, and the private sector.
“Most
importantly, our combined efforts will bring investment and jobs to the GTA.”
EUCOCIT (www.eucocit.com)
represents 23 countries in the European Union and has been working for 15 years
to foster trade relationships between those countries and the GTA.
President
Christian Frayssignes agreed that CETA promises to be an agreement of historic
importance that will significantly increase economic activity across the Atlantic.
“The GTMA is a valued partner in our work to
create more trade and investment between Canada and the European Union,”
Frayssignes said. “It is important that we are working together and share
the same objectives.
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Sweden's population 31/12/2009, preliminary figures:
Population increases amid economic crisis
According
to preliminary population statistics Sweden's population will be
9 340
000 at the start of the new year. The population is rapidly increasing,
and in 2009 Sweden's population rose by 84 000 persons. Not since 1946
has the population increased as much during one year.
This
increase is not only due to a continuing large number of births and
high immigration, but also a sharply reduced emigration and a somewhat
fewer number of deaths.
Swedes are now staying in Sweden
During the past year, 38 000 persons have emigrated, a decrease of
15 percent compared to the previous year. The largest group of
emigrants are Swedish citizens, even though emigration for this group
has decreased the most. Compared to 2008, 5 000 fewer persons in this
group emigrated. Swedish citizens move to Norway and Finland at about
the same rate in 2009 as in 2008, but emigration to the UK and the US
dropped by about 700 persons to each country.
Other large groups of emigrants are Danes, Finns and Norwegians who
mainly move to their countries of citizenship. Among emigrants, men
outnumber
women somewhat.
Press release from Statistics Sweden
Source: Swedish Wire
Eco Phones from Sony Ericsson
Early June is really shaping up to be an
exciting week in the mobile world, as Sony Ericsson will be announcing their
latest “eco” phones to benefit from the “green” technology debuted in Sony
Ericsson’s GreenHeart eco-phone concept. Sony Ericsson’s GreenHeart Concept
phone was announced last year to show off the phone maker’s commitment to
environmentally-friendly technologies. The GreenHeart features bio-
Plastic housing, recycled plastic keypads,
a zero charger with 3.5mW standby power, digital manuals (instead of paper ones),
and environmentally friendly packaging.
CONTRIBUTOR : EMI NOVAH
Sweden
is the first nation,
poised to bury nuclear waste for 100,000 years
Two towns in eastern Sweden are competing to be the first
in the world to store nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years, writes AFP.
At the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory in the south-eastern Swedish town of Oskarshamn, researchers are using an underground maze of
four kilometres (2.5 miles) of tunnels to test methods to enable Sweden, to
become the first country in the world to buy spent nuclear fuel for hundreds of
thousands of years. Sweden, Finland and France all aim to have final repositories
in place by 2030.
Source: Scandinavian leadership.com
CONTRIBUTOR : RAVICHANDRAN
Sweden was the first country in the world
to declare its objective to become"carbon neutral" by 2050.
this ambitious goal is backed up by action plans, including one to make
its entire vehicle fleet - more than four million cars, at present -
independent of fossil fuels by as early as 2030. Click here to know
about the green measures that the country is taking to reach its
ambitious goal and to boost envronmental awareness across Europe.
Visby
Class of stealth corvette, Sweden
Contributor: Emi Novah
SWEDISH DESIGNED GOLDWING TOW BIKE - CLICK TO SEE HOW IT WORKS
Contributor: Garcia Nelson
The cities of
Fredricton and Moncton in New Brunswick, Canada and Stockholm in Sweden
have been named among seven finalists for intelligent Community of the
year 2009 by ICF (Intelligent Community Forum), a New York think tank
that studies economic and social development and idrentifies
bedst practices in today's globel broadband economy. The top
Intelligent Community of 2009 will be announced in New York on May 15th.
CONTRIBUTOR : HANS AKERBLOM
Source: Scandinavian Leadership Forum
HSB Turning Torso is a skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden on the Swedish side of the Öresund strait It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The tower reaches a height of 190
metres (623 feet) with 54 stories. Upon completion, it was the tallest building
in Scandinavia, the tallest residential
building in the EU and the second tallest residential building in Europe, after
the 264-metre (870 ft)-high Triumph-Palace in Moscow. A similar, taller skyscraper featuring the 90° twist
is the Infinity Tower,
currently under construction in Dubai.
The 86-metre (280 ft)-high Kronprinsen was the tallest building in
Malmö before Turning Torso.
The design is based on a sculpture by Calatrava called Twisting Torso.
It uses nine segments of five-story pentagons that twist as it rises; the
topmost segment is twisted ninety degrees clockwise with respect to the ground
floor. Each floor consists of an irregular pentagonal shape rotating around the
vertical core, which is supported by an exterior steel framework. The two
bottom segments are intended as office space. Segments three to nine house 147
luxury apartments.
The Twisting Torso sculpture is a white marble piece based on the
form of a twisting human being. Jonny Orback, former CEO of the Turning Torso contractor and
Board Chairman of the Malmö branch of the co-operative housing association HSB saw the sculpture in 1999 and
contacted Calatrava to ask him to design a building using the same concept.
Construction started in the summer of 2001.
One reason for the building of Turning Torso was to re-establish a
recognizable skyline for Malmö since the removal of the Kockums Crane in 2002, which was located
less than a kilometre from Turning Torso. The local politicians deemed it
important for the inhabitants to have a symbol for Malmö — Kockumskranen,
which was a large crane that had been used for shipbuilding and somewhat symbolised the
city's blue collar
roots.
As Turning Torso is a private residential building there is no access for
the general public
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Sweden embarks on ambitious environmental plan
The government of Sweden has
unveiled the Europe's most ambitious programme to cut its greenhouse
gas emissions and improve its energy efficiency. The government plans
to use renewable energy for 50 percent of all the nation's needs by
2020, and for the country to be crbon neutral by 2050.
Contributor: Ravichandran
Space tourist flights from Sweden by 2012
Potential space tourists eager to blast off from northern
Sweden will soon be able to purchase tickets at the country's Ice Hotel
for launches set to start in 2012. "We expect that the first tourist
flights leaving from the United States will start around 2011 and that
Kiruna (in norhtern Sweden) will be next about a year leter, in 2012, "
Spacesport Sweden spokeswomen Johanna Bergstrom-Roos todl AFP.
Contributor: Ravichandran
Infant Mortality lowest in Scandinavina Countries
The infant mortality rate is lowest in Scandinavian
countries that include Sweden, Finland, Norway and in East Asian
countries like Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. The list of country
names with low mortality was released by U.S. Centers for Desease
Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. U.S.
ranked 29th place.
Contributor: Ravishandran
Obama should look to Sweden for
Education
A
month ago, Obama explored the notion of nationalizing the banks under
the Swedish model. Instead of the Swedish banking model, Obama should
look at the school voucher program in Swedne for inspiratoon writes
blog.heritage.org. In this system, parents in Sweden can use their
vouchers to choose either public, or private schools and also have the
option for a wide variety of educational philosophies that work best
with what they want to instill upon their child. It is a kind of choice
that is simply not available in America.
CONTRIBUTOR : EMI NOVAH
VIKING SHIP FOUND AT BOTTOM OF SWEDISH LAKE
For the first time in Sweden’s
long history, marine archaeologists have uncovered the wreck of a Viking ship
lying in the mud at the bottom of Sweden’s biggest lake. The Swedish
coastguard had a group of 50 scuba divers surveying Lake Vänern’s
bottom, when they stumbled across the 20-metre long wreck.
“Never before has a Viking shipwreck been found in Swedish waters,” marine
archaeologist Roland Peterson from the Vänern Museum
told The Local newspaper. He explained that several Viking boats had been
unearthed in Sweden
before, but all of them had been on dry land.
Divers took wood and iron samples from the ship, as well as a sword and spear
found within the shell of the vessel, which is covered in sediment one meter
thick. Experts wil
For the first time in Sweden’s
long history, marine archaeologists have uncovered the wreck of a Viking ship
lying in the mud at the bottom of Sweden’s biggest lake. The Swedish
coastguard had a group of 50 scuba divers surveying Lake Vänern’s
bottom, when they stumbled across the 20-metre long wreck.
“Never before has a Viking shipwreck been found in Swedish waters,” marine
archaeologist Roland Peterson from the Vänern Museum
told The Local newspaper. He explained that several Viking boats had been
unearthed in Sweden
before, but all of them had been on dry land.
Divers took wood and iron samples from the ship, as well as a sword and spear
found within the shell of the vessel, which is covered in sediment one meter
thick. Experts will now test the specimens to confirm that it is a Viking ship.
“We can’t be sure of anything until we get the dating results back, which
could take around a month. But the sword did seem semi-familiar,” said
Peterson. The Swedish coastguard and the Vänern
Museum are conducting the joint survey
to look for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Vänern.
Six other shipwrecks have been found within a 100-metre radius of each
other. Three of them were literally lying on top of each other. Peterson feels
confident the latest find is a Viking ship, but the origins of the other six
ships remain unsure
l now test the specimens to confirm that it is a Viking ship.
“We can’t be sure of anything until we get the dating results back, which
could take around a month. But the sword did seem semi-familiar,” said
Peterson. The Swedish coastguard and the Vänern
Museum are conducting the joint survey
to look for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Vänern.
Six other shipwrecks have been found within a 100-metre radius of each
other. Three of them were literally lying on top of each other. Peterson feels
confident the latest find is a Viking ship, but the origins of the other six
ships remain unsure
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