can someone translate this
https://web.archive.org/web/20201017075545/https://www.expressen.se/ledare/linda-jerneck/svt-maste-ta-ansvar-for-apatiska-barn-skandalen/
Swedish
>https://web.archive.org/web/20201017075545/https://www.expressen.se/ledare/linda-jerneck/svt-maste-ta-ansvar-for-apatiska-barn-skandalen/
SVT must take responsibility for the apathetic children scandal
In a well-publicized report, SVT's Assignment Review in 2006 stated that the information that some of the so-called apathetic refugee children simulated their symptoms was based on "rumors, lies and pure factual errors". The image that the state investigator, Marie Hessle, together with staff at the Swedish Migration Board had completely baselessly tried to defile vulnerable families settled down.
Those who questioned the epidemic were accused of having xenophobic motives.
Now some of the main characters, today adults, have chosen to appear. In the magazine Filter, Anahit and Nermin tell about how their parents swallowed them and forced them to play apathetic, in the hope that it would give the families a residence permit.
For Nermin, the isolation, neglect and abuse lasted for three and a half years. Filter quotes his medical record, where the care staff expresses concern that "the family will work for him to lose weight".
Where is the self-criticism, Assignment review?
Maybe they did not dare to sound the alarm. In 2005, SvD interviewed several nurses who cared for about fifty apathetic children, and who said that they had seen that parents actively opposed the care. But that "Care Sweden put the lid on":
"It is important to be able to talk about it without being seen as a traitor or a racist."
One would think that the Filter interview with Nermin and Anahit would lead to media self-examination. What responsibility does the Swedish media have for the debate becoming so black and white that care staff, for fear of losing their jobs, did not dare to tell that children were doing badly?
Admittedly, the media in P1 arranged a debate between Gellert Tamas, who did the Assignment review report in 2006 and wrote the book "The Apathetic" in 2009, and Ola Sandstig from Filter. But the laconic conclusion was that "Sandstig and Tamas are miles apart". As if this is a question that has been settled, only both sides have been heard. The listener was left with no real answers.
Janne Josefsson: "SVT did not do its job"
Janne Josefsson, who herself worked on Assignment review when it went, criticized the one-sided report on apathetic refugee children during a panel discussion at the book fair:
"SVT did not do its job. We have to ask the questions, why did this happen right before our eyes? ”
Assignment review is SVT's flagship for digging journalism. It is a program that viewers must be able to trust. But the managers have not wanted to comment on the fact that Tama's thesis does not hold. The only straightforward thing is to do a thorough examination of the issue of the apathetic children again.
Since the first case in 1998, up to a thousand asylum-seeking children and young people have been diagnosed with abandonment syndrome. If parents - consciously or unconsciously - have influenced their children to become or play apathetic, it is reasonable to separate them. It seems to have given good results both in Norway and in a Swedish treatment home.
Why did SVT choose to ignore the alarms? Have those in charge of healthcare, social services and the National Board of Health and Welfare turned a blind eye to the risk that the parents have a share in apathy, and thus prolong the suffering? Would they have acted differently if it had not been about children of minorities?
These are questions that I hope SVT wants to answer.
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>MG-42
Now that's funny.
< I can't breathe
>Anyone else not enjoying life anymore?
What are you talking about?
I've waited my whole life to work with you guys.
good thing we have my helmets
Why is water wet?
https://www.dw.com/en/greta-thunberg-tells-us-congress-fossil-fuel-subsidies-must-end/a-57306039
Let's ride!
https://www.dw.com/en/uk-campaign-targets-polands-lgbt-free-zones/a-57227397
UK campaign targets 'LGBT-free zones' in Polish twin towns
In recent years, Polish towns have drawn international condemnation for passing charters denouncing LGBT+ ideology. Now, a UK campaign is pushing back.
Angry, young and desperate to express himself. This was how Jarek Kubiak felt when he left his Polish hometown of Lodz in 2006 to begin a new life as a gay man in the UK.
Living in London, Kubiak avoided Polish people because he wanted to forget his closeted life back home.
"I didn’t want to keep that Polishness in me," the 37-year-old told DW.
In 2006, being gay in Poland was dangerous. Moving to the UK was Kubiak’s solution. He could now walk down the street without looking over his shoulder and stroll through parks with his boyfriend. He could kiss a man in public.
"When I left, I thought that the situation for gay, queer and LGBT+ people in Poland would only get better," Kubiak said.
That has, sadly, not been the case.
LGBT+ rights in Poland remain largely unrecognized by the state and the community has no protection from hate crimes or discrimination.
That means, even when Kubiak suffered physical homophobic abuse in the UK, which saw him hospitalized for two days, the police protected him and sought justice under the law. Kubiak believes this would not happen in Poland.
"In the UK, I feel like I am seen and in Poland I feel like I need to hide," he said.
'Protect Our Twins' campaign
Kubiak is the co-founder of Polish Rainbow UK, the country’s longest running Polish LGBT+ support group.
He is also a consultant on a new campaign to pressure UK councils to champion LGBT+ rights and confront their twin towns in Poland who have established themselves as 'LGBT-free zones.'
Called 'Protect Our Twins,' the campaign was started by the Liberal Democrat party in March 2021.
There are roughly 100 municipalities in Poland that have signed charters and passed declarations against LGBT+ ideologies, promoting traditional heterosexual relationships and warning against the immorality of LGBT+ ideology. The areas that have passed such edicts are widely termed 'LGBT-free zones.'
UK towns with Polish twins include Lincoln and Radomsko, Amersham and Krynica-Zdroj, Blackburn and Tarnow, along with dozens more. 'Protect Our Twins' wants these UK towns to speak up for LGBT+ people in Poland and pressure their partner towns to reconsider their policies.
Gareth Lewis Shelton, chair of the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, is clear the campaign is not a threat from UK towns but a sign of solidarity.
"Geography shouldn't be a barrier to justice and it shouldn't be a barrier to your rights," he told DW. "It’s about recognizing the innate dignity and worth that everybody has."
Via a digital map produced by Atlas Nienawisci, a campaign group based in Poland that has been tracking the establishment of these resolutions since December 2019, it’s possible to see the location of each zone.
Speaking from Krakow, Atlas Nienawisci’s founder Kamil Maczuga says the anti-LGBT+ declarations cover 12.2 million Poles, which is around a third of the population.
"For us, international pressure is important to know we are not fighting alone." Maczuga told DW.
Ordo Iuris Institute is a conservative legal organization responsible for creating some of these zones by passing declarations they call 'The Charter of the Rights of Family.' They deny that 'LGBT-free zones' exist as the charter never mentions the acronym. Instead, they say the charter defends the Polish constitution, promoting "family, marriage, parenthood and motherhood," and the "protection of children against demoralization."
Asked to clarify the meaning of 'demoralization,' the vice president of the Ordo Iuris Institute, Tymoteusz Zych, told DW: "There are many controversial programs of sexual education that are criticsed by scholars and scientists for interfering in the sexuality of children in the wrong way."
"Kids should learn about sexuality and the body," he said. "But it is the way it is being done that must be sensitive."
Adamantly denying that there are any 'LGBT-free zones' in Poland, Zych said international campaigns are part of a fake news conspiracy.
"I want to make it clear, I think no worse harm can be done to Polish LGBT+ communities than to spread fake news from abroad," he said.
"Their activities are about slandering their own country. They think people from the Polish countryside will remain idle but they are not going to remain idle when they are slandered," Zych said.
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https://www.dw.com/en/eu-economy-on-crutches-warns-ecb-chief-christine-lagarde/a-57305248
EU economy 'on crutches,' warns ECB chief Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde has said Europe's monetary authority plans to keep interest rates and coronavirus stimulus unchanged. She urged EU members to get their coronavirus recovery fund operational with haste.
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday said the bloc's economy was still "on crutches" and in need of support from both the central bank and government spending as the eurozone undergoes extended coronavirus lockdowns.
Lagarde said while the bank sees an eventual rebound this year, any steps to phase out its anti-pandemic emergency monetary plan would be "premature."
It is "premature to talk about phasing out PEPP [Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program]," she said during a news conference. According to Lagarde, leaving the PEPP depended on various factors including financing conditions and the inflation outlook.
"We still have a long way to go before we cross the bridge of the pandemic," Lagarde said. "I have referred to the economy as being on crutches, one fiscal crutch and one monetary crutch." She added that the bloc wasn't ready to stand on its own.
Bond-buying to continue as states overspend
Lagarde's announcement comes after Europe's monetary authority left interest rate benchmarks untouched at record lows.
It made no changes to its €1.85 trillion ($2.22 trillion) bond purchase stimulus it says will last at least through March 2022, effectively underwriting government borrowing. Just under half remains to be used in the next months.
Lagarde reiterated that increased inflation this year would not prompt the ECB to tighten policy, adding that the increase was due to "idiosyncratic and temporary factors" and that underlying inflationary pressures "remain subdued."
The ECB is prepared to "adjust all its instruments" when needed, she said.
While the ECB 25-member governing council is encouraged by continued rollout of vaccine programs, "we still have this overall environment of uncertainty'' about when infection numbers and restrictions on business activities and travel will ease, Lagarde said.
"We still see near-term risks tilted to the downside," she added, citing concerns about potentially more contagious coronavirus variants.
Calls for speeding up EU coronavirus recovery fund
Lagarde also appealed to EU members states to urgently get a 750-billion-euro EU coronavirus recovery fund into action.
"This would allow the next generation EU program to contribute to a faster, stronger and more uniform recovery," Lagarde said.
The fund would offer loans and outright grants to EU countries hit hardest by the pandemic.
On Wednesday, Germany's Constitutional Court gave the green light to approve legislation ratifying the fund, dismissing an injunction that was blocking the investment plan. The decision paves the way for its ratification in Germany.
Only 17 out of 27 EU members have ratified it to date however.
The eurozone economy shrank by 6.6% last year, more than at the peak of the financial crisis. Economists estimate that output is not expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels until mid-2022.
>Ordo Iuris Institute is a conservative legal organization responsible for creating some of these zones by passing declarations they call 'The Charter of the Rights of Family.' They deny that 'LGBT-free zones' exist as the charter never mentions the acronym. Instead, they say the charter defends the Polish constitution, promoting "family, marriage, parenthood and motherhood," and the "protection of children against demoralization." Asked to clarify the meaning of 'demoralization,' the vice president of the Ordo Iuris Institute, Tymoteusz Zych, told DW: "There are many controversial programs of sexual education that are criticsed by scholars and scientists for interfering in the sexuality of children in the wrong way. Kids should learn about sexuality and the body," he said. "But it is the way it is being done that must be sensitive."