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New Nordic Food on the Eurovision menu

At the Eurovision Song Contest food will play an important role as a business card for the Nordic Region and the fantastic ingredients produced in the Nordic countries.

Nordic PMs discuss new common measures

New Nordic measures for green growth and sustainable welfare are in the pipeline. The Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers, Dagfinn Høybråten, will discuss future co-operation in the Region with the Nordic prime ministers at their summer meeting on 16 May.

From visions to action in the Nordic building industry

Nordic House in the Faroe Islands 30 years old

Finnish tango, Swedish entertainment and Nordic short films will be part of the 30th anniversary of the Nordic House on the Faroe Islands.

Reaction from the Nordic foreign ministers to Russian control

At a meeting on Friday, the Nordic foreign ministers expressed their surprise at last week's Russian control visit to the Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Kaliningrad. A diplomatic move from the Nordic ambassadors in Moscow is now expected to be made.

Agreement on Comprehensive Barents Transport Plan

Culture is a basic pillar of sustainable development

“Green Growth - the Nordic Way”: New web magazine

What is the Nordic model exactly and how do the Nordic countries tackle green growth? A new web magazine from the Nordic Council of Ministers explores these issues.

The Nordic Council of Ministers regret Russian control visit

The Russian authorities conducted a control visit to the Nordic Council of Ministers' Information Office in Kaliningrad on Wednesday.

Culture will play key role in development of the Baltic Sea Region

New focus on the role of culture will strengthen sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region.

Young politicians spoke of tolerance and democracy in Petrozavodsk

Young people in every generation have to assert themselves to secure their own generation's rights. This applies to democratic rights, as well as freedom of expression and minority rights, said some of the young politicians currently representing the Nordic Council at the annual Russian-Nordic youth parliamentary forum.

The sustainable Nordic Region: A shared task?

Nordic Council: EU rejection for emissions trading proposal is a disaster for the climate.

Joint defence policy for a sustainable Nordic Region

A robust and sustainable Nordic Region requires joint defence and security policies. In addition to the shape of Nordic foreign and defence co-operation, there was great focus at the Nordic Council theme session in Stockholm on the link between security policy and a sustainable society.

Haglund: NORDEFCO welcomes parliamentary co-operation

There is no reason to create a Nordic Council of Ministers for Defence Policy. On the other hand the Nordic defence ministers welcome greater parliamentary transparency, said Carl Haglund, Minister of Defence in Finland, which holds the Presidency in NORDEFCO this year.

Nordic Council calls for common Nordic disaster response unit

The Nordic Council calls for an investigation into the consequences of the climate crisis on security policy in the Nordic Region. The Council wants, amongst other things, an assessment of the need to strengthen preparedness in the Nordic countries and calls for the establishment of a Nordic disaster response unit.

More effective Nordic network in EU

The Nordic Council calls for a more effective network between the Nordic politicians and their colleagues in the European Parliament. Today's lack of contacts prevents opportunities for major political measures.

A Nordic approach to safety and security

Foreign affairs, defence and security policy may be among the most dynamic areas of co-operation in the Nordic Region but in the eyes of the Nordic Council the national parliaments exert too little influence on this work. At its theme session in Stockholm, the Council proposed several initiatives for a more secure and safe Nordic Region.

Nordic Council: Can we reduce emissions from shipping without increasing land transport?

Nordic safety meets new threats

Thaw is slow in coming

"An adequate overview of migration flows and labour mobility in the Nordic-Baltic Region is needed"

Accreditation open for the Nordic Council's Theme Session on Defence and Foreign policy

Nordic defence policy, foreign policy and civil public security will be the main topics at the Nordic Council Theme Session meeting in Stockholm from 10-11 April. Several Nordic Defence and Foreign Ministers will also take part in the debate. Accreditation is now open for journalists wishing to cover the Theme Session.

The Nordic Ecolabel takes on art

-Trafficking is one of humanity's most important issues

- Human trafficking for forced labour, sexual exploitation, begging, organ selling or any other purpose can be considered today’s modern slavery. Combating human trafficking is one of humanity's most important issues, said Swedish MP (Social Democrat) and Nordic Council member Maria Stenberg at the Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking (PAHT) seminar in Sweden.

Warning: Equality must no longer be confined to gender

Risk of political crisis if equality policy ignores diversity and only deals with gender. Nordic-American seminar in Washington called for a revision of equality concepts.

"Danish" diva takes jazz back to the USA

Nordic emphasis on sexual and reproductive rights at the UN

The Nordic countries call for wording on women's sexual and reproductive rights to be included in the final resolution for the UN Commission on the Status of Women's (CSW) annual meeting in New York. Lack of agreement in CSW last year resulted in it ending without a final resolution, which heralds tough negotiations this year too. Sweden's Minister of Gender Equality, Maria Arnolm, just returned from New York, still has hope.

Call for applications: the Nordic Council of Ministers’ NGO program

Climate change is not gender neutral

The fight against climate change is inextricably linked to gender and equality.

Ministerial panel in New York Violence is not masculine

Violent masculinity should be shameful in our societies. Therefore, men and boys should become our allies in the fight to combat violence against women, says UN Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Jan Eliasson, on Wednesday, when he opened the Nordic Council of Ministers' ministerial debate on the theme of violence against women in conjunction with the annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York.

Public consultation on the new edition of Nordic Nutrition Recommendations - Round 3

Gender Equality ministers share experience of preventing violence

The Nordic Ministers of Gender Equality are in New York this week for the 57th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The ministers will, in particular, share the experiences of the Nordic countries of their joint efforts to prevent and stop violence against women.

Application for funding from KreaNord opens on 27 March 2013

KreaNord, under the Nordic Council of Ministers, calls for applications for funding in the creative industries in the Nordic Region. The first round of applications opens on 27 March. You can apply for up to DKK 1 million (134 000 EUR). The administration of KreaNord's new programme will be managed by Nordic Culture Point from March 2013.

Nordic world leader in computer games

The Nordic game market is gaining success far outside the Nordic countries. At the current Nordic Cool festival in Washington DC there was great interest in meeting two of our leading game designers.

Dagfinn Høybråten New Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers

Dagfinn Høybråten took over as Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers on 4 March 2013. He replaces Halldór Ásgrímsson who steps down after six years. Høybråten takes on his new role with the ambition of developing and strengthening Nordic co-operation: There is potential for much great co-operation in the Nordic Region than we exploit today. As Secretary General I look forward to contributing to realising this potential.

New Nordic Food towards new palates

Cool cooking at Nordic Cool

Better future with powerful women

New Nordic Food was the main topic when Sweden’s Minister for Rural Affairs, Eskil Erlandsson, in conjunction with the festival NORDIC COOL 2013 in Washington, spoke on the subject A Prosperous Future For All – Gender, Climate Change and Biodiversity in a Globalized World.

Debate on Nordic Schools at NORDIC COOL

When the Nordic Council organised a discussion on ”Early Education in the Nordic Countries”, during the Nordic festival month NORDIC COOL 2013 in Washington, it turned out that they had entered the lion's den. The subject has been a matter of considerable debate in the USA since President Barack Obama, in his recent State of the Union address, highlighted the need for preschool education.

Nordic Cool 2013: Seminar on young people's online exposure

PRESS INVITATION You are invited to a seminar on youth, gender and online exposure at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington DC on Thursday 7 March. The seminar will be an exchange of experiences to stimulate debate between experts from the Nordic countries and the USA.

Nordic Ministers for Gender Equaility debate gender and climate change March 6th

Baltic and Nordic businesspersons can apply for mobility programme “Business and Industry”

USA's "Minister of Culture" on European fears for private funding for culture

Look, it's Michael Kaiser, said a woman in the crowd at the premiere of the month-long festival Nordic Cool 2013 at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. He is as close to an American Minister of Culture as you can get, continued the woman ecstatically. The next day I got a very rare interview with him, the President of the Kennedy Center.

Washington buses driving round with Nordic men on paternity leave

A major campaign in the USA is right now advertising the Nordic countries and Nordic core values. The Nordic tourist organisations and the Nordic Council of Ministers are behind the campaign Only in Scandinavia.

The rock star of architecture on success through social responsibility

I would place a bet on the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels drawing the longest queue at NORDIC COOL 2013, the month-long Nordic festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In addition, he has the largest crowd of admirers after the seminar he held on Designing Nature.

Ministers for Gender Equality attend the UN Commission on the Status of Women meeting in 2013

The Nordic countries have successfully involved men and boys in the work to combat violence against women and girls. This slant on the theme of violence is very topical and the Nordic ministers for gender equality led by Maria Arnholm from Sweden will travel to New York to take part in the UN Commission on the Status of Women's (CSW) annual meeting.

12 nominations for the Nordic Council Music Prize

The Adjudication Committee has named 12 musicians, singers and ensembles who are contenders for the Nordic Council Music Prize 2013.

Deadline is approaching for the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Public Administration

Nordic Ministers of Culture Meet with Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine

Press release from U.S. Department of State: Nordic Ministers of Culture and representatives of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Åland met with Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine on February 20 at the U.S. Department of State to mark the opening of the Nordic Cool 2013 festival.

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