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Swedish dispute on green growth
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Eva Franchell
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Apr 07, 2011
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The new leader of the Social Democratic Party, Håkan Juholt, gave a popular policy speech at the party congress a couple of weeks ago. He is amusing, has a moustache and on the podium he offered an almost chortling optimism for the future.
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Norge vil bli Europas batteri
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Aslak Bonde
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Feb 11, 2011
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Regjeringen har ambisjoner om å få flere nye kraftlinjer til kontinentet og Storbritannia slik at Norge kan bli Europas batteri. Når vinden i Danmark og på Doggerbank er god, skal vi importere strøm. Når det er vindstille, skal vi slippe vann ut av våre magasiner og sende strømmen ut av landet. Spørsmålet er om det norske folk synes ideen er like god som Regjeringen. Velgerne liker ikke nye kraftlinjer og sterkt varierende strømpriser.
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På vej mod en grøn fremtid
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Thomas Larsen
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Feb 11, 2011
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På tværs af partiskel er danske politikere enige om, at der skal satses massivt for at frigøre landet fra forurenende kul, gas og olie. Men transformationen til en grøn energiforsyning bliver en gigantisk udfordring.
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Nordic countries are greening their economy more than ever
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Helena Spongenberg
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Apr 15, 2011
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While ‘green economy’ is quickly becoming the catchphrase of governments across the world, the Nordic countries are taking their green economy further than ever.
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Selvsikker som banken
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Aslak Bonde
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Apr 14, 2010
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Etter noen ukers nær-døden opplevelse høsten 2008, har norske banker hatt det forbausende bra. Tapene på utlån er bare litt over normalen, overskuddene er store, og myndighetenes forsøk på å regulere bonuser og markedsføring er ikke særlig plagsomme. Men inntektsmulighetene i årene fremover er muligens mindre enn før – næringslivet vegrer seg mot å låne penger, og på boligmarkedet er det stor tvil om veien videre.
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Letterna fick betala den svenska krisen
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Eva Franchell
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Apr 14, 2010
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Den svenska bankkrisen fick sitt epicentrum i - Lettland. Ingen annanstans har den svenska krisen fått sådana följder som den fick i grannlandet i öster. Därför går det egentligen inte att skriva om ”den svenska bankkrisen”. I stället kommer den här texten att handla om två grannländer, det ena klarade krisen hyfsat medan det andra fortfarande balanserar på ruinens brant.
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Gælden blev heldigvis reddet
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Ragnhildur Sverrisdóttir
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Apr 14, 2010
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De tre største islandske banker, Landsbankinn, Glitnir og Kaupthing, kollapsede totalt i efteråret 2008. To af dem, Glitnir og Kaupthing, er nu kommet under udenlandske kreditorers styre og hedder henholdsvis Islandsbanki og Arion banki, mens Landsbankinn er under statslig forvaltning. Den kolossalt hurtige vækst og ekspansion hos de islandske banker, der var blevet 10 gange større end bruttonationalproduktet, sluttede nærmest fra den ene dag til den anden, og tilbage stod lutter ruiner.
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Banker - back to normal
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Thomas Larsen
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Apr 14, 2010
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Efter en turbulent tid er det ved at blive mere normale tilstande i den danske banksektor, som løsnes fra den massive statslige intervention efter finanskrisen. Tilbage står opgøret om direktørernes lønninger.
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EU kæmper for at regulere banksektoren
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Andrew Willis - EU Observer
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Apr 14, 2010
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Næsten to år efter de første tegn på en nær forestående kreditklemme dukkede op rundt omkring i verden, er den Europæiske Union nået et godt stykke igennem den reformdagsorden, der skal forhindre en gentagelse af den økonomiske krise, som har udraderet en stor del af den økonomiske fremgang, som regionen har opnået gennem det seneste årti.
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EU looking north to diversify its energy sources
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Valentina Pop - EU Observer
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Feb 11, 2011
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As tensions are flaring up in EU's southern neighbourhood and the dealings with eastern petro-states are politically embarassing, the 27-strong bloc is looking for inspiration in the Scandinavian energy market and considering a north-south gas corridor.
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April 2011: Populism takes over Finnish election
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Markku Heikkilä
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Apr 14, 2011
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The Finnish general election is on Sunday 17 April. The election results are expected to be announced around midnight. That is about the only thing that can be said with certainty before this election. The advance of the populist True Finns Party, along with the crisis in the euro countries, has really stirred up the country's political patterns.
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Socially responsible banking – utopia or reality?
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Two years after the collapse of the financial markets, three banks have been awarded the Nordic Council Nature and Environment Prize. Norwegian Cultura Bank, Swedish Ekobanken and Danish Merkur Andelskasse win the environment prize for sustainable banking. The prize will be presented on 3 November, almost symbolically in Iceland, the country more than any other which has paid the price for the banking community's lack of sustainability. The prize winners argue here that it is time for banks to revert to their primary purpose: to create value for society, not only for a minority of shareholders - and thereby to minimize the risk of another crisis.
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Protester mot höga elpriser
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Eva Franchell
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Feb 11, 2011
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Det var elräkningen i januari som knäckte svenskarna. För många hushåll har elkostnaderna mer än fördubblats och de höga priserna har utlöst en våg av protester. Hundratusentals har skrivit på protestlistor och de svenska medierna rapporterar om människor som drabbats av kostnader på flera tusen kronor mer i månaden.
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Clean technology and new knowledge about natural resources
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Markku Heikkilä
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Apr 07, 2011
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Finland, sobering up after the Nokia frenzy, is looking with a new perspective at the resources that no wave of globalisation can take away from the country. Finland will continue to safeguard its welfare by means of clean technology – bio-energy from the forests, water and minerals know-how. It is looking for a combination of these in order to realise a sustainable economy and green growth.
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Sustainable step in the right direction on the Faroe Islands
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Ingolf S. Olsen
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Apr 07, 2011
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It is absolutely imperative that the Faroese fishing fleets are reduced if there is a desire for the fisheries industry of the future to be biologically, economically and socially sustainable. So far, passivity in the industry itself and the politicians' reluctance to get involved has prevented such a reduction.
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Finanskrise fryser dansk økonomi
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Thomas Larsen
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Dec 18, 2008
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For få måneder siden var mangel på arbejdskraft og frygt for økonomisk overophedning det dominerende tema i den politisk-økonomiske debat. Med finanskrisen er alt ændret: Regeringen har måttet gribe ind med hjælpepakker til finanssektoren og må nu stimulere økonomien. Svære år venter.
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Is it naive to be open?
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Aslak Bonde
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Oct 27, 2011
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When Jens Stoltenberg committed us all to meet terror with more openness and democracy, he added in the same sentence that we should never be naive. In the months that have elapsed since the 22 July, it has become clearer how difficult it is to weigh these promises up against each other. It has also been surprisingly difficult to assess whether Norwegian society has become more divided or more united after the terror attacks, and whether there are grounds for more or less extremism.
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Something has changed in Finland
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Markku Heikkilä
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Sep 26, 2011
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The last political assassination at ministerial level in Finland was in 1922. The organised far right is a very marginal group in the country. The extreme left has not been heard from in a long time. We have not seen any major political demonstrations for something or against something for a while. No suspicion of terrorism directed against Finland has emerged. Nevertheless, during the autumn, the waves in the debate of extreme political movements have surged high in the country and a new aggressiveness has emerged in the debate climate.
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Swedish police uncertain
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Eva Franchell
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Oct 27, 2011
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To follow the Swedish debate on terrorism and political extremism you have to understand the concept of the roundabout dog. It might seem frivolous in such a serious context but the fact is that the security police's latest crackdown was based on such a dog.
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Time of political dissolution
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Egill Helgason
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Oct 27, 2011
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There has been considerable political turmoil in Iceland after the financial collapse in October 2008. After the banks went bankrupt there were mass protests in Reykjavik for days. They reached their peak in January 2009 in what came to be known as the 'household revolution' when fires were lit in the city, stones thrown at the Parliament (Alltinget) and the police used tear gas against the angry crowd.
