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
Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: Denmark, herbert pundik, israel, mossad, politiken
The former chief editor of Danish newspaper Politiken, Herbert Pundik, has spoken out for the first time of his time as an Israeli Mossad spy.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, General, International, MBL, Politics
Posted on 12 March 2010. Tags: business, Iceland, internet, marketing, Reykjavik, RIMC, sales
This morning begins a very high profile weekend for the internet in Iceland with today’s Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and the accompanying high-tech expo which runs until Sunday.
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Marketing and Consulting, Technology
Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: bahamas, crime, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, nordic, Norway, Sweden, tax
An information sharing contract has been signed between the Nordic nations and the Bahamas, intended to hinder Nordic tax evasion.
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Posted in Business, Denmark, Finland, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Norway, Politics, Society, Sweden, Travel