Iceland – Entranced by banking
Jon Danielsson, Gylfi Zoega Some view Iceland’s crisis as holding lessons for any country with an outsized financial sector, e.g. the UK. This column ...
New improved banknotes coming to Denmark
In a bid to curb counterfeiting, the Danish government has announced it is creating new banknotes that contain the latest security measures. The Centr...
Sweden promises to preserve its minority languages
Since 2000, the Swedish government has given special national minority status to the languages of its ethnic minority groups. These include Finnish, T...
Danish UFO files now open to public
The top secret UFO files compiled by Denmark’s Air Force over the past 30 years have finally been declassified and opened to public perusal. Some 15,0...
Iceland – the new EU member?
Olli Rehn, member of the European Commission responsible for enlargement, has stated that Iceland would be a welcome addition to the Union, MBL report...
Swedish ships heading to fight pirates off Somalia
Sweden is set to send three of its naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden to help in the international effort to fight the scourge of piracy that has engul...
Norway to raise toxic Nazi submarine
Norway’s government has decided to raise a Nazi submarine that sank off its shores in the North Sea during World War II because it contains a massive ...
Finnish government releases huge stimulus package
Finland’s government has agreed on a stimulus package worth around 2 billion euros, an amount that represents 1.7 per cent of the nation’s GDP. As Fin...