There`s a pilot shortage in Europe? Really!?!?!
Then why the H do people still sign up for SSTRs, P2F scams and accept BS contract work? If this argument is true, then none should have to go down that path, as long as you are found qualified by an operator to fly their aircraft, without having to pay for the privilege.
I actually find it quite refreshing to read Bondi`s posts, though it may seem he has a grudge, he is at the same time writing what a growing number of pilots are saying. I will also agree that newspapers, all they way from the tabloid press to the more serious ones, are no experts when it comes to aviation reporting. First, get the jargon straight, then the facts. Of course they are colored either left or right (or wrong). Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet is one of those. Previously, they never wrote anything to criticize O`Kjos. Only happy stuff when he got to play the smiling underdog, you know, the kind we Scandi-folks so much adore. But now, however, the tune has a different melody since said newspaper is leftwing and socialist. The truth might be caught somewhere in-between, but there is no doubt that he is a master of loopholes, and has a nonstandard way of getting his will.
As for employment there, I have no idea at the moment. It appears that things change every now and then, but never for the better. Maybe once or twice to boost morale, but the trend is clearly negative, and the downward spiral is dragging the rest of us towards the drain and into the sewer.
