Posted on 15 March 2010. Tags: althingi, banking, Iceland, investigation, report
The long-awaited report by the Icelandic parliament's financial investigation committee is currently being printed.
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Posted in General, Iceland, MBL, Politics
Posted on 15 March 2010. Tags: art, attendance, gallery, museum, Reykjavik
The attendance record at Reykjavik Art Museum was broken last year when the number of museum visitors for the first time exceeded two hundred thousand, with the overall number of visitors in 2009 reaching a total of two hundred and twenty thousand.
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Posted in Art, Culture, General, Iceland, Leisure, MBL
Posted on 15 March 2010. Tags: bus, court, discrimination, gay, Sweden
SL, the Stockholm local transport authority, has been asked by the Swedish discrimination ombudsman (DO) to provide adequate compensation to a gay man after he was instructed to leave a bus by a local driver.
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Posted in General, Lifestyle, MBL, Sweden, Travel
Posted on 14 March 2010. Tags: cuddle, embrace, friendship, love, Sweden
Swedes have always been keen to adopt trends emanating from the United States, and the latest craze to hit Scandinavia is the cuddle party.
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Posted in Culture, General, International, Lifestyle, MBL, Sweden
Posted on 14 March 2010. Tags: football, Iceland, opinion, sport
Iceland currently has 53 football players playing abroad. Not bad for a little country marooned in the North Atlantic Ocean, or is it?
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Sports
Posted on 14 March 2010. Tags: alcohol, court, Finland, internet, legal, tax
All charges have been dismissed in the case of a Finnish website that had been accused of improper distribution and importation of alcoholic products from Germany for sale in Finland.
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Posted in Business, Finland, General, MBL
Posted on 13 March 2010. Tags: Denmark, economy, GDP, lars lokke rasmussen
The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has declared that his country will embark on a range of ambitious projects aimed at increasing the national GDP over the next decade.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Energy, General, MBL, Marketing and Consulting, Politics, Society
Posted on 13 March 2010. Tags: Audur Capital, finance, Iceland, OMX
NASDAQ OMX Iceland hf. has confirmed that Audur Capital will be Certified Adviser for First North Iceland.
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, MBL
Posted on 13 March 2010. Tags: Norway, oil fund, pensions, recession
The Government Pension Fund Global, or National Oil Fund, recorded a record annual return for 2009 according to a new report by the Norwegian Central Bank.
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Posted in Business, Energy, General, Lifestyle, MBL, Norway, Society
Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: Iceland, IMF, loans, nordic, Norway
Jonas Gahr Store, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, looks set to break ranks with the other Nordic countries by recommending that Norway grant loans to Iceland before the Icesave issue is finally resolved with the Netherlands and the UK.
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Posted in Denmark, Finland, General, Holland, Iceland, MBL, Norway, Politics, Sweden, United Kingdom