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Monday, November 30, 2015

Increased Chinese skepticism about Africa – Dagens Næringsliv

Kina president Xi Jinping har vært gavmild overfor råvareproduserende land i Afrika og gitt store lån. Nå har råvareetterspørselen falt og mange har opparbeidet seg store gjeldsforpliktelser til Kina.

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

High salaries can provide downsizing of Innovation Norway – Adresseavisen

An internal memo shows that in just one year has been 39 more who earn over 800 000. The number of employees with million salary has increased from 27 to 38, Dagsavisen.

READ ALSO: 340 million extra to Innovation Norway

“The trend also seems too large to be explained by competence shift, and may seem startling in a state-run enterprise,” it says in the memo newspaper has disclosed .

READ ALSO: Conquering the Internet with new magnet games

Got cut the appropriation

Wage growth comes as the company is in a restructuring phase and got cut funding from the state budget with 107 million in 2015. The consequence of that is a reduction of 60-70-years, wrote CEO Anita Krohn Traaseth in his blog this spring.

The note also states for concern that it will be necessary with a new downsizing round unless grants or wage policy changes.

READ ALSO: Innovation Norway acquitted of ESA

The new management team

The company has a new management team, which according to the Information Department is to explain salary jumped. In addition, individual have greater responsibilities.

There should be plans to do something about pay policy. Among other things, the number of managers at “managerial level 2″ down from 69 to 43. It should be completed in the next year.

High salaries can provide downsizing of Innovation Norway – Adresseavisen

An internal memo shows that in just one year has been 39 more who earn over 800 000. The number of employees with million salary has increased from 27 to 38, Dagsavisen.

READ ALSO: 340 million extra to Innovation Norway

“The trend also seems too large to be explained by competence shift, and may seem startling in a state-run enterprise,” it says in the memo newspaper has disclosed .

READ ALSO: Conquering the Internet with new magnet games

Got cut the appropriation

The note also states for concern that it will be necessary with a new downsizing round unless grants or wage policy changes.

READ ALSO: Innovation Norway acquitted of ESA

The new management team

The company has a new management team, which according to the Information Department is to explain salary jumped. In addition, individual have greater responsibilities.

There should be plans to do something about pay policy. Among other things, the number of managers at “managerial level 2″ down from 69 to 43. It should be completed in the next year.

Friday, November 27, 2015

There will for the documentary? – Rush Print

Photo: from the NRK relevant documentary series Punx.

Documentary The area is one of the areas that should be strengthened. It was one of the clearest recommendations in the so-called Ryssevik report “Open Future – a report on the economy and the flow of money in the film industry” from the analysis company Ideas2evidence which was the main premise provider for Film message .

In the discussion afterwards and in the White Paper, it is almost the only area not covered. What happened when Film The message was written, and where was the documentary environment then? When broadcasting the message currently being debated in Parliament, it does not focus on the documentary industry.

The documentaries are the best mirror of our times, it is today’s reality we talk about, and it is this which gives future generations photo of who we are. Students from Westerdals Oslo ACT and other film schools want to tell stories from reality. When VGTV to focus their business they want more Norwegian documentaries, and youth listen to P3 Documentary , feel free to Podcast. Format works online and have long life.

Many directors and producers are able to set the agenda through well-told and engaging stories. Why is it so difficult to put the documentary on the agenda?

When Kulturløftet II in his time was launched, it was a big win for the documentary that area, finally was lifted in line with feature films and TV drama. We should be leading in the Nordic region. Since then, funding has increased, but not as much as desired, and film policy has focused on incentive scheme, regionalization and after the palm rest. The documentary film has disappeared from the debate.

In 2009 there were major mobilseringer of documentarists, which largely attacked the film support, and Trond Giske s film policy. In my role as secretary general of the Producers I argued strongly for documentarian did not have to do the rest of the film industry to his enemies, by talking down feature films and drama, which was referred to as nonsense and nonsense. Maybe I killed some of commitment? I miss it at least in public. If one enters the home page of Dokumentaristene.no it has not happened since 2010.

In early December to meet a large part of the Norwegian documentary environment for the annual Dokumentarkonventet at Solstrand outside Bergen. Here are the skills, talent, management, broadcasting and business, – directors, producers, consultants, editors, mowers and bureaucrats. The goal is to share knowledge, inspire and raise aspirations. There are many small players, many small and professional actors.

We will discuss a number of relevant issues related to the current film and broadcasting policies. Documentary The environment is very fragmented, but have a common deep love for his subject. There is an incredible amount of dedication behind each project, but the large project to strengthen the industry, it has been difficult to agree on. Because the environment is so fragmented, many of the discussions perceived as critical to another part of the value chain, or competitors stand against competitors.

Dokumentarkonventet can and should not act as a political player, it is the different interests among all those who show up for different. But we can raise the level of debate and focus on the problems surrounding the day. If the documentary industry will continue to evolve, there must be new things, taken new steps. It is not enough to rely on the enthusiasm and commitment. There must be structural, money and politics in the bottom, should reach new heights.

People need to read the White Paper on film and broadcast messages, and discuss, make up opinions. A number of issues related to the documentary’s role will be discussed broadly and actors should engage.

Anse to documentary area must be strengthened. There are many who succeed with single films and issues, and the ability to set the agenda there. But it is lacking a political agenda for the documentary. The discussion on goals and targets must be lifted. There must be a better balance between the state and regional funds. Now that Oslo finally getting established a film center, there is reason to think holistically about roles.

Public broadcasters, both NRK and TV 2 is up to political treatment. There are now questions about the responsibilities and opportunities for documentary must be addressed. TV 2 underlines the costs of running as a public broadcaster and ask for state funding. NRK has the largest aggregate supply and to increase their use of external, and here it is important that documentarian mark and have thoughts about budgets and organization.

A number of years ago we were many key players who wrote a note in connection with the previous film release, whether documentary industry conditions and political status, we called it the industry’s flesh and blood. The allegation was that it was here many secured revenue, and a first step into the industry. Documentary makers are found throughout the country, and gender balance is good, and it was here that they got told stories that were important and mattered. There is no doubt that documentarist the hearts banks. Should industry develop itself, needs the commitment and energy enhanced, so that the public in the future ensured good stories. The answer to the question in the headline should be yes, the commitment exists. Now it must be shown.

Leif Holst Jensen Dean film, television and games at Westerdals Oslo ACT and former secretary general of Producers.

Who are foreign fighters? – Utrop.no

The debate rages in social and editor-controlled media about radicalization. How can it be that one becomes radicalized and jihadist when growing up in Europe? Is it poverty? Is there anything that lies dormant in Islamic theology? Professor Olivier Roy recently summarized what research says about these issues.

Roy, who work at the European University Institute in Italy, writes in a note to the German intelligence agency Bundesverfassungsschutz November 19 that radicalization seems to be related to personal stories rather than radicalization of an entire environment.

Low status
According to Roy, psychologists have found that there is a specific psychiatric pattern of radicalization. Some come from dysfunctional families, others from “normal” families. They come from urban and rural areas, poor families and middle class. Frustration and anger against society seems to be the only feature that is shared by many. There is a gap between expectations and actual social status, a need for recognition, which lies behind.

Roy still has an answer to who they are radicalized. He distinguishes between those who support extremist jihadist ideology (around 7000 people in Europe) and those who actually travel to Syria or Iraq to fight because they are motivated by such ideology (around 1,500 people).

When it applies the acting group, the majority second-generation Muslims born in Europe. The second largest group are converts. Almost none have come as young adults or teenagers to Europe from the Middle East.

Criminal past
Many have a history of petty crime and drug trafficking. Before they were newly saved or converts, they took part in a youth who had nothing to do with Islam. But most of them go through a sudden and rapid return (or conversion) of religion. Before that lacked most of them even basic knowledge of Islam, according to Roy.

The pattern in Norway is reminiscent of that in the rest of Europe, although Roy emphasizes that there are variations between countries, and that in countries like Austria are eg several mosques linked to radicalization than elsewhere in Europe. One of those who have come insightful input on whom foreign fighters from Norway is, the TV2 journalist Khadafi Zaman. He sums so on his blog:

– In total, around 85 people traveled from Norway to war. TV2 know the identity of most of them. Between 30 and 40 people with ties to Norway residing currently in Syria. Of them there are at least nine women, he writes and continues:

– The interesting thing is that almost none of the Norwegian foreign fighters have higher education. Almost none have Syrian background, and almost none have theological education in Islam. It has however many are drug and violence judgments, mental disorders and a cordial relationship with NAV and Loan Fund.

Not from Muslim environment
This is clearly a youth movement, writes Roy. Almost everyone gets radicalized against parents and relatives will. Most parents are not only disagreed children radicalization, they actively try to bring them back or even get them arrested by the police.

Radicalization is also a peer phenomenon. The young radicalized often within the framework of small networks of friends, only a minority today. Very few of them, however, has belonged to Muslim movements or religious congregations. Contrary to what many think, they have never mobilized for Palestine and almost never spent any time with the Muslim Brothers or other familiar gestures. In short radicalization their not the result of “maturing” within a political or religious environment, writes Roy.

Prisoner of narrative
According to Professor Roy is the primary motivation for young men from Europe who join the jihadist often fascination for the narrative: “the small fraternity of superheroes who retaliates on behalf of the Muslim umma “. Most radicalized have either broken with parental Islam or have not received any Islamic upbringing at all. Their knowledge of Islam is small. In Iraq identifies the volunteers themselves not with the local Arab population, which explains why they need either imported wives or sex slaves. The narrative is built by templates taken from youth culture (computer games like Call of Duty and Assassins).

There are two reasons why this youth rebellion still getting a religious expression, explains Roy. Most radicalized have firstly Muslim background. Secondly, jihad is the only issue on the global “market”. If you kill someone in silence, it comes in the local newspaper. If you shout “Allahuakbar” and kills someone, it comes guaranteed on the face of all the country’s newspapers, he writes.

The reason that these young people do not turn against such leftist or ecological ideology is that these are “bourgeois” and intellectuals for them. Once they become religious, select the Salafi movement. It is both easy to understand and has a rigid structuring effect. Moreover Salafi movement counterpart of cultural Islam, ie the Islam parents belong.

Must normalize Islam
consequences of research findings for combating radicalization, is according to Professor Roy yourself, firstly, that the promotion of “moderate Islam” to get the radical return to the mainstream, is meaningless. Radical rejects moderation per se. Praying “Muslim communities” to lead the radicalized back to a normal life is equally meaningless. The young radicalized have in most cases not had any contact with these groups, or they have actively breached them. They radicalized do not care about the people they see as “traitors”, “apostates” or “collaborators”.

We must therefore, in addition to building up a more sophisticated intelligence, giving the lie hero narrative. We must leave Islam emerge as a “normal” religion. The way we deal with Islam, should not be regarded primarily as a security question, this will only intensify the fascination with rebels looking for a good cause, he writes.

External assistance
But it’s not just here in Europe one has noticed that foreign fighters have little relation to traditional Islam and the extremists’ narrative must be challenged.

New York Times writes about how IS ‘understanding of Islam is now being challenged by Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), an Indonesian Muslim organization with all 50 million members.

– The abundance of a superficial understanding of Islam makes the situation serious. Loud votes within the Muslim population – extremist groups – justifies its heavy-handed and often barbaric behavior by claiming that they are acting according to God’s will, even though they take dreadfully wrong in this, says A. Mustofa Bisri, who is spiritual leader of the group to newspaper.

He recalls that most foreign fighters from Europe do not speak Arabic or have not lived ii a Muslim country. Bisri claims tolerance is an important value in traditional Sunni Islam, and his organization is now collaborating with research institutions in the West (among them the University of Vienna) to build up theological opposition to the IS ‘propaganda.

– We challenge directly tank with IS, which is that Islam should be one, which means that if there is no other conception of Islam who do not follow their, these folks unbelievers who must be killed, says Yahya Cholila Staquf, which is generalsektretær in NU New York Times.

He is supported by Nico Prucha, a researcher at King’s College London and working to analyze network propaganda to IS.

– I look at motnarrativet as the only way western governments can deal with IS-propaganda, but there is no strategy for this right now, he says.

Today’s China Century fueling fears of hard landing – OBI Online

Asian exchanges falls Friday.

Weak macroeconomic data from both Japan and China contributes little to lift the mood, and investors do not like the escalating war of words between Turkey and Russia, after the Turks shot down a Russian fighter earlier this week.

On the Tokyo Stock Exchange Nikkei falls 0.4 percent to 19,871.08, while the broader Topix index pulls down 0.5 percent to 1,594.39.

Without clues from the US, where most revolve around Thanksgiving, investors are cautious, focusing Reuters on profit taking.

Unemployment rate in Japan fell to 3.1 percent in October, the lowest October unemployment since 1995 but even though the labor force increases, fell also private consumption 2.4 percent annually in the same month.

Other figures Friday showing that the CPI in the Tokyo area rose 0.2 percent on an annual basis in November, up from 0.1 percent the month before.

An Asia-list can be found here.

Fearing hard landing in China
In Shanghai draws Shanghai Composite index down the entire 2.6 percent, while large cap index CSI 300 falling 2.6 percent.

Figures from the Chinese government shows Friday that profits in its industry fell 4.6 percent on-year in October , which according to CNBC trigger new concerns for a hard country for the economy.

– This is a long term trend. Although the central bank will continue to cut interest rates, it does not help so much. Consumer behavior changes, says the commander of Kingston Securities, Dickie Wong, to “Asia Squawk Box.”

Tim Condon of ING writes in a note that what is needed to avoid a hard landing is to support production growth and liquidity of banks.

Elsewhere in Asia-Pacific region falls Hang Seng in Hong Kong 1.3 per cent, while the Kospi 200 index in South Korea is down 0.1 percent.

Taiwan Stock Exchange pulls down around percent, while Sydney Stock Exchange falling 0.2 percent.

Sued Innovation Norway for unfair dismissal – Dagsavisen

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Som Dagsavisen skrev i går er det intern uro knyttet til lønnsgaloppen i Innovasjon Norge.

Lønnsstigningen skjer mens organisasjonen er midt oppe i en omstillingsfase. I statsbudsjettet for 2015 fikk Innovasjon Norge (IN) et kutt på 107 millioner kroner. Konsekvensen blir en nedbemanning av 60–70 årsverk.

Blant dem som ble sagt opp 26. mai i vår er seks NTL-medlemmer. LO-forbundet Norsk Tjenestemannslag (NTL) har stevnet Innovasjon Norge på vegne av disse seks medlemmer, for det de mener er usaklig oppsigelse.

– Denne saken vil bli ført for retten om man ikke kommer til en enighet, sier Fredrik Oftebro, som er nestleder i NTL.

Han kan ikke gå inn i de konkrete sakene, og hva som skal ha vært usaklig ved oppsigelsene.

– Men utgangspunktet for nedbemanningen var knyttet til økonomien til IN, og at de hadde fått kutt i bevilgningene. Vi synes derfor det er oppsiktsvekkende at en har valgt å øke lederlønningen i en slik situasjon, framfor å prioritere å beholde bredden i selskapet, sier Oftebro.

– Kjenner oss ikke igjen

Administrerende direktør i Innovasjon Norge, Anita Krohn Traaseth sier at de i dag er i forhandlinger med NTL-medlemmene det gjelder.

– Vi anser tre saker som løst da nye muligheter har åpnet seg internt. Det betyr at vi i dag sitter igjen med tre uløste saker. Der er vi i forhandlinger og har god dialog. Vi er for øvrig ikke enige med NTL i at oppsigelsen ikke er saklig begrunnet. Påstanden om at Innovasjon Norges lederlønninger går på bekostning av å beholde bredden i selskapet kjenner vi oss ikke igjen i, sier Krohn Traaseth til Dagsavisen.

– Flau smak i munnen

Et internt notat Dagsavisen har fått tilgang til, viser at det har vært en kraftig økning i antall ansatte med høy lønn i det statseide selskapet.

Det er 39 flere i år som tjener 800.000 kroner i året eller mer.
Det er 11 flere som tjener 900.000 eller mer.
Det er også 11 flere som tjener én millioner kroner i året eller mer.

– Jeg kjenner ikke igjen Innovasjon Norge, sier næringspolitisk talsperson i Arbeiderpartiet Else-May Botten. Hun vil stille spørsmål til næringsministeren for å få klarhet i saken.

Botten reagerer også på summen av endringene i det statseide selskapet.

– Det er sentralisering i både struktur og programmer, samtidig som vi ser en nedbemanning, flere ledere og en økning av lederlønningene. Det gir en flau smak i munnen!

– Forventer grep

Botten får støtte fra næringspolitisk talsperson, Line Henriette Hjemdal i KrF.

– Norge opplever en økende ledighet og alle er enige om at vi trenger omstilling. Her er Innovasjon Norge et viktig virkemiddel. Så jeg forventer at styret og administrasjon tar grep, og skjønner hvilken rolle de skal ha, sier Hjemdal.

Næringspolitisk talsperson for Høyre velge å omtale saken slik:

– Dette er et signal som kan framstå høyst umusikalsk. Samtidig er det for tidlig å bedømme. Traaseth har satt i gang flere omstillingsprosesser, og det er ikke uvanlig at det på kort sikt kan føre til økte kostnader.

Næringsminister Monica Mæland (H) hadde ikke anledning til å svare til Dagsavisen spørsmål, og viste til Høyres finanspolitiske talsperson, Gunnar Gundersen.

Ingen planer om ny nedbemanning

– Først og fremst, det er ingen planer om ny nedbemanning som følge av endringer i lederlønninger i selskapet. Dette vil aldri være et argument for nye kutt. Det er heller ikke lønnsgalopp som har preget Innovasjon Norge i omstillingsåret 2015. Lønnsoppgjøret 2015 for ledere utenfor overenskomst resulterte i 2,4 % økning, mot 2.8 % for øvrige ansatte, sier Anita Krohn Traaseth til Dagsavisen.

I det interne notatet omtalt av Dagsavisen i går, gis det uttrykk for bekymring for at det blir nødvendig med en ny nedbemanningsrunde dersom ikke bevilgningene eller lønnspolitikken endres.

Ledelsen i Innovasjon Norge (IN) oppfatter ikke det som kommer fram i oppslaget i Dagsavisen, som bekymringsverdig. De mener det handler om nødvendige grep i første fase av en omstilling, og peker på fire avgjørende punkter for lønnsutviklingen i selskapet:

• Redusert antall mellomledere, og økt antallet ledere på øverste nivå, fra 6 til 11, for å «reflektere omstillingskompetansen det er behov for».

• Lønnsøkningen for ansatte i IN var på 2,8 prosent, mot 2,4 prosent for ledere utenfor overenskomsten.

• Av de 39 som gikk over grensen på 800.000 var de fleste et resultat av naturlig lønnsjustering. 24 av dem tjente over 750.000 i 2014.

• Lønningene i IN har steget i takt med resten av markedet. IN jobber med ny stillings- og lønnsstruktur som skal være klar i løpet av 2016. De skal ikke være lønnsledende, men har et ansvar for å tiltrekke seg kompetansen de trenger.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Waiting for new measures from the ECB – Dagens Næringsliv

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Euroen er på sitt laveste nivå mot dollar og yen på syv måneder.

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Euro handles torsdag morgen nær sitt laveste nivå på syv måneder mot dollar og yen. Mot norske kroner er euro marginalt svekket siden Oslo Børs stengte onsdag.

Bakgrunnen er at investorer spekulerer i at Den europeiske sentralbank (ESB) vil forsterke sine stimuleringstiltak på rentemøtet i neste uke, skriver Bloomberg News.

- Vi venter at ESB vil kutte innskuddsrenten mer enn det som ventes av markedet. Dette vil kunne opprettholde salgspresset i euro når kursen går opp, og bidra til at euro tester 1,05 dollar hvis våre forventninger slår til, sier Mansoor Mohi-uddin, senior markedsstrateg i Royal Bank of Scotland i Singapore, til nyhetstjenesten.

Anonyme uttalelser

Handelsbanken Capital Markets sier i sin morgenrapport at euro onsdag ble svekket som følge av anonyme uttalelser fra kilder i ESB.

Ifølge Reuters diskuteres det nå en miks av mer aggressive pengepolitiske tiltak i desember. Ikke bare å ekspandere det eksisterende programmet for kvantitative lettelser (QE), samt å kutte innskuddsrenten, men også det å innføre en såkalt split-level-rate, det vil si at ESB kan gjøre det enda dyrere for de bankene som parkerer de største beløpene som innskudd i ESB.

Muligheten for at ESB kan kjøpe enda mer risikable papirer skal også være på bordet. Alt dette for å holde euroen svak og å få pengesirkulasjonen mer i gang, og dermed inflasjonen gradvis opp igjen mot målet på 2 prosent, skriver Handelsbanken.

Ser ytterligere svekkelse

Euro vil kunne fortsette å svekkes frem til ESB-møtet 3. desember, med en risiko for at valutaen vil falle til 95 cent innen utgangen av mars, sa Goldman Sachs i et kundenotat onsdag, blant annet med henvisning til divergerende pengepolitikk i USA og Europa, melder Bloomberg News.

«Terskelen er lav for en duete overraskelse 3. desember. Idet risikoviljen tar seg opp i januar, ventes divergenshandelen å øke i styrke», skriver Robin Brooks, sjef for valutastrategi i Goldman, i notatet.

Futureshandelen indikerer ifølge Bloomberg News en 72 prosent sjanse for at den amerikanske sentralbanken Federal Reserve hever renten med 0,375 basispunkter på sitt møte 15-16. desember, fra det gjeldende rentenivået på 0,0-0,25 prosent.

Kronen er torsdag morgen styrket med om én øre mot euro, til 9,1888, sammenlignet med nivået ved stengetid på Oslo Børs onsdag. Mot dollar er kronen i samme tidsrom styrket med rundt fire øre, til 8,6524.

Euro er marginalt svekket til 1,0621 dollar, sammenlignet med kursen på 1,0625 dollar i New York sent onsdag kveld.

I løpet av onsdag var euro nede i 1,0566 dollar, som er den svakeste kursen siden 14. april.

Norske statsobligasjonsrenter med 10 års løpetid sluttet onsdag på 1,457 prosent, mot 1,500 prosent tirsdag kveld.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Swine Good top salaries of Innovation Norway – Dagsavisen

An internal memo Dagsavisen has gained access to, shows that there has been a sharp increase in the number of employees with high wages in the state-owned company.

In particular, wages have exploded since Anita Krohn Traaseth took over the top job last year.

memo from the company itself shows that “(…) there are major changes in wage levels compared to previous years.”

There are 39 more this year which serve 800,000 per year or more.

There are 11 more who earn 900,000 or more.

There are also 11 more who earn one million a year or more.

In total there are 136 pieces that serve 800,000 or more. 59 earn 900,000 or more, and 38 earns 1 million or more.

It is a piece of average wage in Norway, which in 2014 was approximately 500,000.

Downsizing

The dramatic wage inflation coincides with the organization’s right up in a restructuring phase. In the state budget for 2015 awarded the Innovation Norway (IN) a cut of 107 million. The consequence will be a workforce reduction of 60-70-years, wrote senior Anita Krohn Traaseth even in his blog this spring.

In the internal memo expressed concern that a new round of downsizing becomes necessary if not grants or wage policy changes.

It appears that progress has been remarkable, especially in the last year and can not be explained by normal salary increases.

“The trend also seems too large to be explained by competence shift, and may seem startling in a state-run enterprise.”

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Greater senior management group

1. February got IN a new and larger executive group of eleven members: seven women and four men. Nine have been recruited internally and two externally.

– The new senior management group consists of a larger number of managers now than before, beyond this we have no comments, says Leela Borring Låstad, Club Manager in the Finance Sector Union Innovation Norway. It is one of several associations that are represented with the club in the company.

– What should happen to come?

– The union representatives are concerned that wage growth eventually becomes less parallel for all groups of employees, says Låstad.

Will reduce managers

Information Department of Innovation Norway also refers to the new Senior Management team as an explanation for wages jumped, in addition to that some will have greater responsibilities.

They state that it is planned to do something with remuneration policy in Innovation Norway.

It appears that those in our decided to set a goal of reducing the number of managers at “managerial level 2″ from 69 to 43. The aim is to be in countries with this in 2016.

We are also working to establish a new “pay and job evaluation system.” This project will be completed in 2016.

Over incision

CEO of Innovation Norway, Anita Krohn Traaseth, even has a base salary of 2.5 million a year.

If you look at the other state-owned companies where the main objective of ownership is not commercial, so is Tråseth payday above the average in 2014. The cut in this category is 2.3 million, if one adds boss wages reported in ownership message basis.

At the top of this category thrones CEO of Gassco AS, with a total remuneration of 8.3 million. While the executive director of The Seed Såvarelaberatorium has the lowest salary of 626,000 kroner.

New regulations

Dagsavisen has previously revealed that the highest paid in state-owned companies earn much more than the Prime Minister. Erna Solberg receives an annual pay packet of about ten million.

In wholly state-owned companies is quite common that senior managers earn several times more than the prime minister.

Earlier this year, Industry Minister Monica Mæland (H) with new regulations to limit favorable retirement plans and would bonuses Fully or partially state-owned companies. Among other things, she sat a pension limit and a bonus limit of 50 percent of basic salary for managers.

- We had to flee. I have colleagues who have been killed – Dagbladet.no

NICKEL (Dagbladet): They are well educated and they are illiterate. They are fleeing from war, but also from the fear of earthquakes. Dagbladet has met those who dream of Norway. Here are their stories on the road over the frigid Russian tundra.

The asylum seekers who flock to Norway from Russia comes from all corners of the world, and of all the worlds reasons. The only thing that binds them together is the hope of Norway, a country they often do not know anything about, other than that it is rich.

Sint tooth-patient

In a bus in the extremely polluted ghost town Nickel sitting Hussein Yahya and his wife Sura from Baghdad in Iraq, along with his son Ali, who are entertained by an Ipad. The two were successful dentists, but said they had to flee because a customer was not happy with the work he had done with a client’s teeth, and now threatened his life.

– We had to flee. I have colleagues who have been killed after similar threats. We went six days after the threat came and chose Russia and Norway because the Mediterranean was too dangerous, says Hussein.

– We will work as dentists and establish ourselves in Norway, says Sura. They paid $ 4,000 for the trip. Now they hope for asly in Norway.

The coming winter road

All is not as fortunate as family Yahya. Cycling in snowstorms, in thick coats and jeans in 15 degrees cold, dolls Yassir Noras from Pakistan up along with four buddies. They say they are from Waziristan, where the Taliban is strong.

– Water, you have water, begs Yassir Noras. He and his friends are icy and dehydrated after having cycled the thirty miles from Nickel to the Russian border crossing against Norway, Boris Gleb. It is a dangerous process the five has embarked on in the freezing cold. They had to ride because they had no money for transport to the border which costs 800 kroner. person and 1,300 kroner for a bicycle, which they still need to pass the border. The five Pakistanis fear terror in his homeland, and has stalled on refugee train towards Norway. Dagbladet could not photograph them because we were ever in the military-controlled border zone on the Russian side.

The coming winter road, those who carry the dream of becoming our new countrymen. Once it was Norway who showed the world the winter road, which Arne Schouens legendary title in Dagbladet after Norwegian successes of the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924. Almost 100 years later, people from all over the world showing Norway winter road on the frigid Russian tundra, before the polar night descends on the landscape and people who like a damp and freezing lid. Hit people come winter road to the dream of Norway.

Play with the fate

It is a play with the fate they have posted on. One thing is the dangers of the cold and capricious Russia. Another thing is the issue of asylum. Most people who now come to the border station in Storskog are not Syrians, refugees which triggered refugee train, and opened the borders in Europe. During our two days among refugees on the Russian side of the border, before being welcomed in Norwegian reception, we met only one acids. He wanted to Norway because of bureaucratic bumbling.

The man in their 20s had frittered renewing stay its documents in Russia, where he has been for five years, and will reach to Norway not to be sent back to Syria because the Russian documents expires in November. After that he is illegal in Russia, a fate he shares with millions of people.

The memo from UDI

None of the people we talk to have read leaflet that UDI has authored and which the Norwegian Consulate General Murmansk tries to distribute to the refugees flowing on. It says that those who do not meet the strict criteria for asylum in Norway will be deported. Explicitly says of Afghans, that they will be deported to Afghanistan, in the note which is translated into English, Russian, Dari and Pashto. Note hanging on a secluded spot on the wall of hotel Severnoje Sijanie in Nickel, the city that is so polluted that all vegetation is gone for miles. This is the last stop before Norway for most of them fleeing through Russia. As a grim backdrop is the city as a kind of involuntary contrast to the dream of Norway up ahead.

One of those who definitely have not read the document from the UDI is an Afghan man of around 50 who is head of a big family totaling seven. When Dagbladet shows him leaflet, it emerges that he can not read. But he speaks some Russian after three years in the country and says he wants to Norway because it is bad economic times in Russia, because of the sanctions against the country and low oil prices. It is no longer job to get for an illiterate.

When one of the kids reading on Pashto, and going to the section which is explicitly about Afghans, turn family whatsoever in their hands, asking the boy to stop reading and say

– What do you want me to do? Travel around the world as a bouncing ball till I die?

The man with hotel

He travels matter further against Norway, and try to get a discount for transportation to the border for the kids. But he is no luck. 800 kroner. snout is price. It’s a seller’s market. The Armenian who owns hotel Severnoje Sijanie says we can call him the Russian name Artyom. He organizes both the last transport, bikes and of course accommodation in the city’s only hotel. The bikes are sold for twice what they cost in a store. So there is big money to earn for Armenian Artyom.

– Yes, you know, first got the money, and then came his wife, said Artyom, and shows off his Russian wife who is half as old, and turns the world won past refugees trying to bargain on the price of transport.

Earthquake fear

The likely most special of asylum seekers to Norway as we meet are from Nepal. The young man will not say his name, but he says he flees because he fears new earthquake.

In a bus sits the Syrian refugees. But the refugees who probably has the greatest chance of being granted asylum in Norway, will not talk to Dagbladet.

It will however Palestinian Muhammed electricity Pakasha, third generation refugee from Palestine in Lebanon. He displays a document with the UN stamp that he is an auto mechanic.

– In Lebanon, there is no life for Palestinians. In Norway, I would have a good life, and I will serve this life with my own hands. Or do not you believe what you say about human rights in Europe, he asks rhetorically. He took the plane from Beirut a few days ago and flew via Moscow and Murmansk. Now he negotiate the price of a bicycle, to take over the last stretch towards the border to Norway.

– I get the bike, Inshallah (God willing), he said.

Rescue they will freeze to death

The real polar cold struck last week, so the refugees have now just ride the last 100 meters for the border station on the Norwegian side in Storskog. Russian authorities are afraid that someone else would freeze to death. UDI’s note, which is designed to get refugees to turn, should such the Norwegian Consulate General has understood that, also distributed to the refugees at the border. But here is no trace of the UDI note.

But even apart from the cold, so there is little heat that meets refugees in Russia. Most have only used Russia as a transit country. But many also lived in Russia for several years.

And what will meet them in Norway? With arguably exorbitant expectations of a new life, many condemned to a brutal downturn. It’s a bit like a psychosis that reigns among the people in the flow of refugees who chose Norway. Hopes, expectations and uncertainty they have shared in this confusion of time. But the realism of their project, how is it with him?

And so far, are refugees celebrities for a moment. When Dagbladet ran across the border, were foreign tourists from two tourist buses in a row and took pictures of the refugees who came to Norway. But the refugees still came in no red carpet to the kingdom.

Will strengthen Brekstad – Trondheim, øybefolkningen despair – Fosna people

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Freshly disagree about headquarters – Sunnmørsposten

Bøen accusations Nilssen to come up with entirely new argument after it became clear that the county would be her own police.

– Socket preparedness that challenge came up first when it was clear that Møre og Romsdal would become a separate police, says Commissioner Ingar Bøen, in its response to the Police Directorate.

Bøen notes that the consultation statement to police analysis, report that formed the basis for the Parliament reduced the number of police 12, were from the academic community in Northern Møre og Romsdal Police not said that a collocation between the chief and shelf preparedness was needed.

The hearing deadline expired on 17 November, and Police Directorate envisages that the new principal seats shall be established before the New Year.

Wild first Trondelag

In the consultation paper politimester Arnstein Nilssen submitted to police analysis, he entered the police in Møre og Romsdal were placed under police in Trøndelag.

The time was not mentioned a word that shelf readiness and the chief had to be in the same place.

– The academic community Nordmøre pointed originally Trøndelag county at that time it was beyond doubt that the seat would be added to Trondheim and Kristiansund not. Socket preparedness that challenge came when it was clear that Møre og Romsdal were her own police, writes Bøen, police chief in western Norway.

From one section to three pages

For while shelf responsibility was featured in One paragraph in Nordmøre and Romsdal statement to police analysis, given that this time the three sides in the 14-page memorandum Nilssen sent Police Directorate.

At the Parliament has decided that shelf preparedness should remain in Nordmøre town festivities not chief Nordmøre some trust.

– One can hardly see that this guide from parliament can be met if the seat post Ålesund, writes Arnstein Nilssen, Chief Constable of North Møre og Romsdal.

As the contrary believes Police Directorate runs a risk if they put the chief of Ålesund.

– You can not see the establishment of satisfactory solutions if the police emergency unit at strategic and operational levels will be added to AES, type Nilssen.

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Boen: Most live in western Norway

In the voluminous hearing the statements of the two police chiefs they try to knock each other over the head with various statistics and points. Nord og Romsdal focuses on preparedness and the local they have at their disposal. Bøen user population and crime statistics when he should justify why the seat should be in Ålesund.

– 51.5 percent of residents in the county live in western Norway. If we include Vestnes, Rauma, Sandøy and Molde constitutes 67.3 percent of residents in the county, writes Bøen, adding the figures from Statistics Norway show that the population is growing in western Norway while it goes down in Nordmøre.

– Kristiansund lies on the outer edge far north of the county. There are no other major folk centers farther north. Aalesund when a large part of the county in under an hour and a half, while Kristiansund three hours traveling to there where lives the most inhabitants, writes Bøen.

Nilssen: Kristiansund is best

The description Reality is quite different sets of police headquarters in Kristiansund.

– Police in Kristiansund is an excellent basis for developing a modern headquarters. We are of the opinion that all nødmeldesentralene can be co-located on the same floor at the police station. We believe Kristiansund emerges as clearly the best option for spot placement of new management place for Møre og Romsdal Police concludes Nilssen.

& lt; strong & gt; search: & lt; / strong & gt; Berre Lodve Solholm have applied for the position as county governor of Møre og Romsdal.

Chief of Police in Møre og Romsdal:

Fylkesmannen go for Alesund

Fylkesmann Lodve Solholm and county Emergency Stine Saetre recommends Ålesund as adminstrasjonsstad for the new police district.

COUNTY COMMITTEE VOTED In Commissioner-combatants

Frank Sve: – The Greatest Scandal

– Moving 112 and 110 to Kristiansund and health services in spel 113 is completely unserious, it is not subject, says Frank Sve (FRP) by the dramatic reconciliation in county selection for the seat of the chief.

Saudi Arabia will stabilize oil prices – Manager

- Hva de har i tankene, er imidlertid uklart. Men det er vel neppe noe annet enn produksjonskutt som kan hjelpe, og da gjenstår det å se om Saudi-Arabia vil være fornøyd med den markedsandelen de da vil bli sitte igjen med, sier seniorøkonom i Handelsbanken Knut Anton Mork.

– Hva de har i tankene, er imidlertid uklart. Men det er vel neppe noe annet enn produksjonskutt som kan hjelpe, og da gjenstår det å se om Saudi-Arabia vil være fornøyd med den markedsandelen de da vil bli sitte igjen med, sier seniorøkonom i Handelsbanken Knut Anton Mork. (Handelsbanken)

Saudi Arabia will stabilize oil prices – Manager

Monday, November 23, 2015

Hurtigruten and Norwegian ports – Future Requirements

Leserbrev It is believed to be known to most that over a time has been an ongoing conflict between Hurtigruten and several Norwegian ports. In the case of Stranda Port Authority has the Supreme Court (with dissent 3 against 2 votes) given Hurtigruten requesting that Stranda not have had the right to demand compensation for all passengers Hurtigruten passengers. Hurtigruten has also announced lawsuits against five ports which they have described as “the worst offenders in the port-Norway”, namely Tromsø, Finnsnes, Risøyhamn, Stamsund and Bodø, and 10 additional ports are appealed to the NCA. It can thus be seen that we go a challenging but also interesting and hopefully clarifying autumn meeting.

For those who do not have detailed knowledge of the Harbour Act 2009 (HFL) or know well framework conditions and assumptions contained ports of Norway, the case must seem complex and weird, and from a port side, it is easy to suspect Hurtigruten to use this to try to get public opinion on his side through the active use of media and rhetoric. This paper is an attempt to describe the conflict and the background to it, as seen from the perspective of a harbor.

The starting point for the conflict appears to be relatively clear: On the one hand, one has Hurtig, who believe that Norwegian harbors generally takes care for well paid for the services rendered there. On the other hand, one has ports, which mean that they administer the laws are given and that they charge in the manner legislator requests and supervisory authority NCA permits.

In order to analyze a conflict must try to familiarize themselves with both sides’ situation. Hurtigrutens position seems easy to understand. It is legitimate (and expected) that a commercial company looking for every opportunity to cut their costs and increase the owner’s profit. It is in the nature. As Hurtigruten earn their money selling “ world class experiences along the Norwegian coast “, and along the way calling at up to 34 ports, so it is not unnatural that the fee associated with calling and remuneration attached to port services constitute a significant cost for them. A cost which can now “look out.”

To understand the ports’ position requires a little more explanation. Ports represent, next to the road, rail and airport, very important infrastructure. Responsibility for this infrastructure is organized, managed and financed in different ways. Rail and road is government responsibility largely being funded through the state budget, and to a lesser extent directly by users (although user financing of road construction through tolls are becoming increasingly important). Airports are also a government responsibility, but here is the operation, development and ownership organized in a state-owned company, Avinor AS. Avinor is self-financed and operates a total of 46 airports.

The ports of Norway was in 1984 “municipalized” through establishment of a new harbor, which was later continued in the Act on ports and waterways 2009 (HFL). Today it is in Norway 60 public traffic ports which have been authorized by their municipality for a given sea area.

Economic must ports be self-financing, ie the port basically must acquire the necessary income required To maintain efficient operation according to HFL and to develop and maintain the necessary infrastructure. This means that the ports on one side commercial character and provides services to the shipping industry and other transportation and logistics players, and on the other hand, managers of critical infrastructure in the national transport network and also attends municipal responsibility for accessibility and safety in the municipality’s sea area .

Calls fee is the only tax which ports can collect. This fee shall cover all the airport’s costs relating to security and accessibility in the municipality’s sea area, as well as cover the municipality’s costs upon exercise of public authority. The municipality charges to port operations will primarily be covered through different payments (regular pricing). HFL says that whoever is responsible for the operation of the various services in the port may fix the compensation for the services on a market basis, and that compensation for services and benefits related to port activities, levied on a private legal basis.

This means that have a situation where a portion of the proceeds ( Calls fee ) are based on a defined cost structure, and another part ( different consideration ) that can be determined by market conditions. The challenge of determining compensation from a purely market assessment is that most ports are in a position with no real competition. This means that if you take out a maximum market potential in the pricing of services, then you will quickly be faced with making use of its monopoly in an improper manner. Many ports therefore choose to base the pricing of the different consideration of a model in which one adds costs due, plus provisions for future investments and a small profit margin on top.

Based on the argument that Hurtigruten uses when they attack the ports, it may seem as if it is the legislation underpinning for calculating fees and compensation they will to life. This is made clear through several statements in the media: Hurtigrutens communications director will “ a systematic misuse of new port ” to life and she points out that several ports have “(…) took advantage of its position as monopolists “. NHO Director General Harald Thomassen uses the same rhetoric when he leads Hurtigrutens case and says that “ The ports continues its obfuscation and belittling of port dues ” and follow up with that “(…) NHO Maritime is concerned that no one should be put in a situation where they are left to ports’ own assessments of what they may claim paid . ” These are examples of some of the statements that we believe is incorrect, and is performed in an unreasonable manner.

An important task for a port is to ensure correct collection of tax and consideration, so that the municipality can maintain their responsibilities under the HFL. We should be able to assume that Hurtigruten and harbors agree. Hurtigruten wants a change in HFL (or in the interpretation thereof) that enables Hurtigruten get away with paying a smaller share of the costs for infrastructure than is the case today, is another matter. The case must be happy Hurtigruten trial in criminal justice, and if lawmakers decide to give Hurtigruten right will obviously harbors abide by it. But the consequence will then have to be that other operators that use the same facilities have to pay more and that the considerations thus will have to increase.

The arguments Hurtigrutens CEO performs in the media as saying that: “ We have taken up the fight on behalf of all shortsea shipping along the coast (…) “falls on its own absurdity, when the remaining shipping will have to pay more if Hurtigruten should pay less.

As a basis for the calculation of both calling fees and different consideration is thus the cost required to operate a port in accordance with HFL. These costs are the ports obliged to levy. Through their statements through the media, it may seem as if both Hurtigruten and NHO Maritime ascribe ports that, without governance, set a tax rate that is not anchored anywhere. We think this is completely wrong and witnesses at best a lack of knowledge of the ports’ framework and mission.

Another quote that has been used by Hurtigruten Media’s claim that the ports “(…) do not want to negotiate with major users of the port . ” This we feel that harbor not left in. We are very aware that we have a business relationship with both Hurtigruten and all the other players that use ports’ infrastructure, and we have therefore established a system of discounts for our largest customers which we believe is both transparent and predictable. Having said that we would like to emphasize that we are open to that things can be done better and more just, and we will therefore conduct a new review of our discount system.

The Supreme Court handed down in June this year dom in “Stranda case” and gave Hurtigruten right that Stranda Port Authority is not entitled to levy passenger compensation for all passengers on board the ships, but only for those who go ashore and may use the facilities on land. This case believe we have little or no transfer value for other disputes between Hurtigrutene and harbors, and can, in our opinion not performed as proof that “ Hurtigruten has been exacted illegal taxes from public agencies over many years ” which CEO of Hurtigruten, Daniel Skjeldam, says to NRK when commenting on the matter.

Hurtigruten to have to enable the use of the available means to achieve its goal of increased profitability for their owners. This we respect, although we are critical of their rhetoric and disagree in case they perform. For ports, as public enterprises, however, it is paramount that we first and foremost respect the legislation that we have to deal with, and that gives us evidence of the calculation models used. We believe that Hurtigruten also must respect.