Danish teen girls prefer painkillers for suicide
Figures just released from Denmark’s National Patient Registry indicate a substantial rise in the number of teenage girls who have been admitted to ho...
Politics
Information and news on politics in Iceland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Copenhagen yearns to be first CO2-neutral capital city
Copenhagen’s city councillors are putting aside their different views to unite under a new campaign to make the Danish capital the world’s first carbo...
Finland set to regulate tobacco sales
Beginning in April, Finland’s government is going to begin regulating the sales of all tobacco products in a bid to improve the health of its young ci...
New leader of the Independence Party in Iceland selected
Bjarni Benediktsson is the new party leader of the Independence Party, with 58.1 percent of votes, and is taking over the leadership from Geir Haarde,...
Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes party leader of the Icelandic Social Democrats
Johanna Sigurdardottir has been elected party leader of the Icelandic Social Democrats (Samfylkingin) with nearly all votes. Dagur B. Eggertsson will ...
Eva Joly hired as a special consultant to the Icelandic Government
The announcement of the involvement of Eva Joly being hired as a special consultant to the Icelandic government and the special prosecutor’s tea...
FARC release Swedish man after two years
Eric Roland Larsson, a 69 year-old Swede who had been working and living in Colombia when he was kidnapped nearly two years ago by FARC rebels has fin...
Finns united to tackle climate change
The people of Finland seem to be prepared to accept whatever political decisions its government needs to make to fight the growing threat of climate c...