Notification of Change in Shareholding

Metro  International S.A.  ("Metro International"),  the international newspaper
group,  hereby  announces  in  accordance  with  the  "Law of 11 January 2008 on
transparency  requirements for  issuers of  securities" where  Luxembourg is the
home Member State (the "Transparency Law"), a change in shareholding.

Please  be notified that Försäkringsaktiebolaget Avanza Pension on 12 May 2011,
has  changed its shareholdings in  Metro International S.A to  a level below the
threshold    of    5 percent    of    total    numbers    of    voting   rights.
Försäkringsaktiebolaget  Avanza  Pension's  shareholding  thereafter  amounts to
13,223,952 SDRs  representing the Class  A share, equivalent  to 4.99 percent of
the total number of voting rights.

Please  also be notified  that Försäkringsaktiebolaget Avanza  Pension on 17 May
2011, has  changed  its  shareholdings  in  Metro  International  S.A to a level
exceeded  the  threshold  of  5 percent  of  total  numbers  of  voting  rights.
Försäkringsaktiebolaget  Avanza  Pension's  shareholding  thereafter  amounts to
13,313,966 SDRs  representing the Class  A share, equivalent  to 5.03 percent of
the total number of voting rights.

Försäkringsaktiebolaget  Avanza Pension  is a  wholly-owned subsidiary of Avanza
Bank  Holding AB. It is  the pension holders of  Avanza Penison who has acquired
the holdings in question.


For further information please contact:
Anders Kronborg, CFO Metro International                  Tel: +44 79 1254 0800
Tanya     Forsstedt,     Avanza     Bank     AB                             Tel:
+46 8 562 257 37

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ABOUT METRO INTERNATIONAL AND METRO
Metro is the largest international newspaper in the world.  Metro is published
in over 100 major cities in 20 countries across Europe, North & South America
and Asia. Metro has a unique global reach - attracting a young, active, well-
educated Metropolitan audience of 17 million daily readers.

Metro  International  S.A.  shares  are  listed  on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm through
Swedish Depository Receipts of series A and series B under the symbols MTROA and
MTROB


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