Sweden - Immigration agreement for Greens and government

Published: 27 Mar 08 08:49 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/10728/

The Swedish government and the Green Party are to present a joint proposal on Thursday for new rules governing labour force immigration.

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Under the terms of the proposal, Sweden would not send anybody back to their homeland if they had managed to secure employment.

"This is the biggest reform of Swedish immigration policy for several decades," said Migration Minister Tobias Billström and Green Party group leader Mikaela Valtersson in a jointly penned article in Thursday's Dagens Nyheter.

If a job seeker outside the EU receives a concrete offer of work from a Swedish employer, this will in future be enough to secure permits for residency and employment.

The proposal also sets longer time limits for residence and work permits. The first permit will last two years. If the applicant still has work after this period, the permit will be extended by a further two years.

After four years, an applicant will be eligible for a permanent residence permit.

"From now on, no labour force immigrant will be forced to go home despite having work," said Billström and Valtersson.

The government and the Greens also want to make it easier for job seekers to attain visas to travel to Sweden for interviews.

Under the new regulations, an applicant who is offered employment will no longer have to return home to apply for permits to live and work in Sweden.

TT/The Local (news@thelocal.se/08 656 6518)



Source The Local.se

Episode IV: Learning a foreign language by Livemocha

We (me and my fellow Puntino) have talked yet about some communities useful for English Learning.

In this forth episode I wanna talk about LiveMocha.



LiveMocha it's a well organized community for language learning.
This site use an interactive way of practicing a foreign tongue, through a very smart method.

You can practice at the same time your skills in, reading, writing, listening, speaking.
For instance you can practice and traing your speaking abilities recording a short dialogue.
The other members of community are able to listen to it and send you some advice or simply correct mistakes you have done.

And all this not only for English but for other languages too! (French, Spanish and so on)

IMHO the best featurs of the mocha are three.

1) It is free (obviously :P)
2) It is very simple and useful
3) It is a cosmopolitan community.


So....see you around the mocha ;)

Agony and the Ecstasy (where are you going my beloved Italy)

Where are you going my beloved Italy?
Where are we going too???

I don't Know.



but may be somebody knows.
I want to point out to you two interesting articles publsighed on newsweek.
The first is "Agony and the Ecstasy" (stealed the title :P for my post).
The second is "Farawell, Dolcevita?".

I hope these two pieces of writing can help you to understand more a lot of Italy.

this is a quote from Agony and Ecstasy:

"Yet for all this, many Italians feel that the country still has the potential—the creativity amid the chaos—to make a magnificent comeback if only … what? "I believe a lot of people are asking themselves the same question I ask myself," says Pino Arlacchi, a former member of Parliament and senator, and a leader of the anti-mafia fight in the early 1990s: "Why have we not succeeded in turning the page in this country?"

See you ;)
p.s. let me know what do you think about it.

Aviator...where are you going?

Puntino, who had the idea of an english blog, went away.
He learned the basic of blogging by the master and now he had his own Blog.

Good Luck Puntino.

"May the Force be with you"

[YodaGun] LOL



And now? wich is the destiny of Aviator Over The Sea?
It will survive.
I Got new ideas and project for my english blog.



Stay tuned ;)

My last post

Hi guys

This is my last time that I post on this blog because the marriage between TopGun and me is over!
He is too possessive ! no I'm joking he is a great fiend who has led me in the Blog world and hosted my thoughts here.
From now on my window on the blog world will be Switching my mind and I hope whoever you are sometime you take a look at it.
Thank you again, Top!

Sincerely
Puntino