Finland’s GDP to shrink two percent this year
The Finnish ministry of finance stated on its website that it expects the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) to drop by more than two percent in 20...
Iceland’s Minister of Commerce and board and director of FSA resign
Bjorgvin G. Sigurdsson, Iceland’s Minister of Commerce has resigned from his post. At the same time he announced that the director of the Icelan...
Swedish greens angry over proposed beach laws
The Swedish government has proposed a bill making it easier to develop isolated beaches while tightening the rules on already overdeveloped coastal ar...
Statement from Geir H. Haarde, Prime Minister of Iceland and Chairman of the Independence party
A regular medical examination which I underwent at the National and University Hospital last week revealed a small tumour of the oesophagus. On Tuesda...
Swedish serial drunk driver caught (again)
The Local newspaper has reported that a man from the town of Boras in western Sweden has been arrested for unlawful drunk driving. But what makes this...
Upheaval calls for Fleece Revolution in Iceland
Icelanders are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the current situation going on in Iceland. Petitions for the Movement for a New Republic of Ice...
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...
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...