Liberia debt to Norway forgiven
Norway’s government has voted to forgive 90 percent of the debt Liberia owes it, in a move designed to help the country keep up the pace of positive c...
Politics
Information and news on politics in Iceland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Last Danish soldiers return home from Iraq
Six years after the first Danish troops set foot in Iraq as part of the coalition force known as Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, the last soldiers ha...
Greenland wants control of its immigration
Last November marked an historic day in Greenland’s history, when its residents voted overwhelmingly for greater autonomy from Denmark. While the Dani...
Danish navy stuck with Somali pirates
The Danish naval ship, HMS Absalon, is facing an unusual dilemma with the five Somali pirates it pulled out of the Gulf of Aden on 2 January. The pira...
Iceland promotes safety at sea
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE NORDIC COUNCIL: Iceland would like to improve safety at sea in the North Atlantic. Even though the volume of shipping in North ...
Nordic nations switching to safer cigarettes
Beginning in 2010, a new European Union law will come into effect that makes it illegal to sell cigarettes that are not self-extinguishing. While the ...
Danish universities forced to make cutbacks
The global economic crisis is beginning to extend into more entrenched facets of public life such as higher education. Denmark’s government has stated...
Origins of the current economic downturn in Iceland
An article written by Georg Brynjarsson, sourced from his University of California research paper in business: After 5 years of the highest growth in ...