American businessman Mike Spenser, who earlier this year moved from
Great Britain to one of the islands in the Åland archipelago in
the Baltic, will not be granted permission to run his "Pirate Radio
Productions" company. The reason is his avowed inability to speak
and write Swedish, which is a sine qua non requirement for anyone
wishing to pursue business on the islands, says the Provincial
government of Åland when explaining why they turned down his
application.

News reports at
http://www.tidningen.aland.net/se/nyhet.asp?newsID=4760
and also at http://www.radiotv.aland.fi/news.pbs?&news[show_news]
=1668&news[instance]=32

Spenser´s visa expires at the end of May. The future of his 756
pirate venture is now uncertain.

(Henrik Klemetz, DXLD)