Iceland lowers policy rate
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to lower the deposit rate (current account rate) by 0.5 percentage points to 9%. The maximum volume at w...
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Sweden contemplates new nuclear power plants
The state-owned power company Vattenfall has unveiled plans that may lead to at least one new Swedish nuclear power station, according to a press stat...
Norway launches new satellite
Thor 6, the latest satellite from the Norwegian Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc), has been successfully released into orbit from its launch site ...
SecurStore’s preferred online data backup software exceeds 100,000 sites
SecurStore, an online data backup and recovery service, favour the Hybrid Cloud Backup platform by Asigra, who have just announced that more than 100,...
E-reader from Amazon released in Denmark
The popularity of E-reading is expected to increase following Amazon’s decision to launch their best-selling model internationally. The Kindle program...
Swedish suicide rate declines through increased anti-depressant use
Anti-depressants have been credited with saving hundreds of lives each year in Sweden as a new study shows the suicide rate has declined significantly...
Oslo sees return of foreign prostitutes
The level of foreign prostitution has risen back to those last seen prior to the Norwegian government’s implementation of a ban on purchasing sexual s...
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...