Finnair could trim up to 1,200 jobs
Like most airlines around the world, Finnair is struggling to find ways to cut costs as the number of global air travellers continues to slump. The Fi...
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Immigrants to Sweden now able to get ID cards
It has been a long two-and-a-half-year wait, but immigrants who arrive in Sweden are once again able to get a Swedish national identity card. As of 1 ...
Christiana residents lose vital court battle
The efforts of Denmark’s Parliament to take back control of the progressive enclave of Christiana and evict all its squatting residents have been uphe...
Norway opens first stretch of hydrogen highway
More than a dozen hydrogen-powered cars participated in a rally race of sorts to mark the opening of a 560-kilometre stretch of highway that is conven...
Finland rejects Russian call to change freight system
Finland’s transport minister was joined by the Finnish hauliers’ lobby in rejecting a proposal by the Russian Federal Customs Service that wants to mo...
Norway resumes cash aid to Zimbabwe
Despite President Robert Mugabe’s continued misrule of Zimbabwe, Norway has decided it will resume cash aid to the desperate African nation that it cu...
Swedish billionaire buys English village
Stefan Persson, the billionaire owner of Sweden’s clothing retail chain H&M, is set to sign the papers to purchase an entire village in the southe...
Greenland’s tourism industry faces bleak year
When the world’s travellers begin to feel the pinch of the global economic recession, exotic far-flung destinations are typically the first to suffer....