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From TTela.se (English translation)

According to Lars Carlström, Saab is very close to a solution to its financial problems, I have good hopes about this, but these feelings are not thanks to the EIB or the Swedish government. “We are working on other solutions, no point in wasting our time with the EIB.”

A couple of hundred attorneys are working with the process of selling Saab’s facilities and this is a cost that the company will have to pay for.

It is a cost of aprox 20-30 million SEK according to Carlström.

“The production stop also costs huge amounts of money, a couple of hundred million SEK, which is absolutely crazy and creates great harm to the society,” he added.

Getting an approval of Vladimir Antonov from the EIB is nothing Lars Carlström is betting on.

“If the EIB is involved this thing could take years. They are very far from finished with such a simple task as the sale of the facilities, I have no faith in that part at all…” Carlström said.

So at the very least, it’s good to hear that Saab is working on its own solutions that don’t depend on the EIB. Hopefully these statements are just a tactic to put pressure on the EIB through other channels, considering the Eva Schreiber of the EIB has said that they are willing to agree to Saab’s terms pending GM approval.

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DN.se:

According to Lars Carlström who is Vladimir Antonov’s spokesperson in Sweden, Vladimir is very happy with how the meeting progressed between him and the NDO’s (Riksgälden) manager Bo Lundgren.

“Vladimir feels very hopeful after the meeting and feels that the NDO has confidence in him,” he said.
“There has been a lot of rumors about him and he feels that the NDO has done an outstanding job with the Saab-issues and the part that involves himself as a person,” Carlstrom added.

On the other hand Vladimir Antonov and his colleagues feel disappointed that some leading Swedish ministers keep saying that Saab needs the tax payers’ money to survive. And also they keep mentioning that the support the company has received already has tax payer money in it.
“Late last night Anders Borg talked in the same way as Maud Olofsson does, that this issue is about the tax-payers money. We are worried about the lack of knowledge in basic math with the government,” said Carlström.

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Last week it was decided that the employees at SAAB should return to work today and so they did. The production management was on location yesterday to make plans for the day and today at 7 AM they were all on location.

Tv4 was outside the factory and managed to get hold of the union IF METALL’s chairman Håkan Skött. He said that he thought it was good for people to be back at work rather than being at home, however people are still very worried about the situation not being resolved yet. They are also hoping to get some kind of information from the management and think that it would be a good time for them to give it now that everyone is gathered on location…

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Maud Olofsson claims that the government is ready and are making further preparations for education and financial support to Trollhättan if Saab would declare bankrupcy, however when TTela asked the minister for education as well as the finance department and they had no knowledge of any such preparations?…