The EU directive for electronic communication, the ”Telecoms Reform Package”, was pushed through in November 2009. But why have 750 new regulations emerged on the electronic communication market, despite the fact that no major political parties are going to the polls on the issue of market regulation of the telecoms sector? And why is it so difficult to influence (non)political decisions on market regulation?

It’s often said that all employees in an organisation are important ambassadors. The major impact of social media in recent years, however, has brought matters to head. Via the internet, your colleagues are just one click away from the surrounding world – and the number of spokespersons within your company with uncertain status and agendas has thus grown exponentially.

The current political analysis leading up to last autumn’s parliamentary election is largely based on the fact that today’s political blocs are modern manifestations of the Hat and Cap Parties that dominated the Swedish political scene during the last half of the 18th century. At the same time, we shouldn’t forget that Sweden’s political system is actually designed so that we can form strong minority governments and that strong, multi-party political blocs working in coalition are alien to our system.

More internationally anchored offers, growth in the Nordics and continued recruitment of the market’s best advisors. This is the mandate for the new management duo – Maria Grimberg and Peter Steere – that will take over as CEOs of JKL Group, part of the global MS&LGroup, on May 1st 2010. Founders Anders Kempe and Anders Lindberg will continue to be active in the company, but from different platforms.

Lotte Glad (43) has been hired as senior advisor by communication consultancy JKL. Lotte comes most recently from software company IntraPoint, where she served as Director of Business Development and Marketing. Her background also includes positions at PA Consulting, SAP Norway and Kvaerner. JKL thus gains a stronger position within corporate communications.

Mads Christian Esbensen takes over from Ditte Kirstein Brammer as general manager of JKL’s office in Copenhagen. Mr Esbensen is one of Denmark’s leading advisors in the fields of public affairs and strategic communication, and will lead JKL’s continued expansion efforts in Denmark. The Copenhagen office’s management group also includes Malin Petersson and Nikolaj Bøgh.

Publicis Groupe combines MS&L Worldwide, Publicis Consultants and Publicis Events to create a powerful public relations and events network, MS&L Group

As of this date, Cecilie Ditlev-Simonsen is the acting CEO of JKL’s Oslo office. She succeeds Per Høiby, who is leaving JKL.

Lena Smedsaas, commentator on domestic politics at TV4, will join JKL as a consultant at the end of the year. Lena Smedsaas is one of Sweden’s most experienced political journalists and has, among other things, led all of TV4’s party leader debates over the past ten years. She has been with TV4 since its start and previously worked as a journalist for TT (Swedish Central News Agency) and Göteborgsposten.