DN:s Utrikeskväll was held for the 20th year in a row, and as in previous years, the interest high. China theatre was crowded when the editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski began the evening’s conversation with the 16 correspondents participated.
” We are entering a period of transition, the feeling grows stronger and stronger. It is an exciting but also scary time where much of what we take for granted when it comes to issues such as democracy no longer applies, said Wolodarski.
the political currents and events that defines and symbolizes today’s turbulent world. The global klimatstrejkerna, with the Swedish Greta Thunberg at the tip, and the bloody war in Syria, which has become a scene of great powers conflicts was the natural starting point.
DN:s correspondents Philip Teir, Anna-Lena Laurén, and Ingmar Nevéus. Photo: Marc Femenia
” the 2018 was a breakthrough year for the climate to the record heat during the summer and the new type of activism that was started by Greta Thunberg, but what will be required in order to achieve the environmental targets, said the DN’s klimatreporter Michael Kihlberg.
– It is so hard for adults to say no to the child who says ”don’t destroy our climate,” said Tysklandskorrespondenten Lina Lund.
dissected during the evening. Björn af Kleen, DN:s Washingtonkorrespondent, and utrikeskommentatorn Michael Winiarski discussed how the perception of cannabis has changed, how the market forces are taken at the when the drug was decriminalized in Canada and California, and how it has affected the communities involved.
Correspondents Anna-Lena Laurén, Mia Holmgren, Ingmar Nevéus, Erik Esbjörnsson, Nathan Shachar, and Philip Teir participated in a panel discussion about the election year of 2019, as more people than ever are going to the choice the world over. They investigated the issues which can be crucial for the results of the elections and what impact it can have when citizens in countries such as India, Finland, Israel, south Africa and Russia goes to the polls.
“We have an audience who is genuinely interested in utrikesjournalistik and the pressure is always great to be with and hear our foreign correspondents discuss the big issues when they come home once a year,” says DN’s utrikeschef Pia Skagermark.
by DN:s Johar Bendjelloul.
” It’s fantastic to have so many knowledgeable people under one roof, it is really not commonplace. We will take part of the many qualified analyses of world affairs in a short time, ” he says.
Utrikeskvällen ended with a speech by the american veteran Alan Moskin, who talked about their experiences from the Second world war, where he at the end of the war, was liberated labour and the concentration camp Gunskirchen in Austria.
” Today’s young people have romantic images of war from video games and the like. To be in a war is like getting to hell and back, ” he says.
told of the horrors he witnessed with his own eyes as the gates to the camp were up, and he called for resistance against all forms of fascism, nazism, and hatred, the world over.
” I saw there was the worst I have ever seen and the worst I hope, ever need see. I saw skelettliknande people lie on the ground to both the right and the left, there is like to describe this difficult to explain.
” How could the civilized world allow this happened? I do not want anyone to ever forget the Holocaust, that is why I do what I do– I am a witness, says Alan Moskin.