US VIPs to visit Svalbard’s Global Seed Bank
A diverse delegation of VIPs from the US will travel to Norway’s Arctic archipelago of Svalbard this week in an attempt to learn more about global war...
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Luxury electronics company losing out to lower prices
Bang & Olufsen, the Danish manufacturer of stylish, top-end stereo systems and televisions, is losing ground to companies like Sony and Samsung, w...
Saving Iceland protests
The fourth Saving Iceland action camp has now begun in the area of Helguvik. Early this morning around forty activists from some ten countries occupie...
Scandinavia on track for flight connections to Leeds
Air travellers in the county of Yorkshire in the UK will soon be able to fly to several Scandinavian capitals with bmi Regional. A code share agreemen...
Norwegian gas fields purchased by energy giant Centrica
In a bid to expand its upstream oil and gas assets, Centrica recently purchased its first Norwegian gas assets from Marathon Oil for GBP 190 million. ...
Roskilde shares slide after Danish central bank bailout
Denmark’s first bailout by its central bank in over 15 years came to the rescue of Roskilde Bank A/S on the back of bad loans made to home builders. S...
Six European airlines fall foul of Denmark’s advertising standards
The National Consumer Agency in Denmark has publicly named six airlines it says are continuing to use illegal marketing practices, in defiance of a wa...
Siemens fined in Norwegian corruption case
The Norwegian Police Financial Division has fined German telecoms engineering company, Siemens two million Kroner for alleged corruption. The case inv...