Increased EU behaviour monitoring leads to Orwellian fears
The European Union is providing funding for human behaviour-watch programmes in the war against terror, sparking fears that the EU community itself wi...
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Swedish couple accused of tormenting children
Swedish officials have launched an indictment against a couple from Stockholm for using what they claim to be torture-like methods for maintaining dis...
IMF head calls for expansion during Norway visit
IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has claimed that that global recession still has not ended despite the recent signs of a recovery, and that global...
Swedish writer confirms relationship with KGB
Jan Guillou, the famous Swedish author and journalist, is facing new claims of aiding the KGB in the 1960s. Guillou has claimed that he was pursuing j...
Finland reports rise in sick leave due to exhaustion
Exhaustion is being attributed in increasing numbers of cases as reason enough for Finnish workers to be granted paid sick leave. Traditionally Finlan...
McDonald’s closes in Iceland
With the collapse of the Icelandic currency, the krona, McDonald’s licence holder Lyst has decided to shut down the three McDonald’s resta...
Remote villages in Greenland under threat
The future of Greenland’s remote settlements has come under scrutiny after the Democratic Party’s Palle Chritiansen questioned the feasibility of vill...
Danish Liberals call for abolition of minimum criminal age
The Danish Liberal Party’s spokeswoman for social affairs Ellen Trane Norby has called for the minimum age of criminal liability to be done away with ...