The social music network, Gogoyoko, is a revolutionary website currently aimed at promoting Scandinavian music, making the opportunity available for artists and music fans to ‘interact and transact’. Gogoyoko prides itself on promoting ‘fair play in music’ Continue Reading

Last week’s Baltic Sea Action Summit in Helsinki concluded with few binding commitments made and mixed reactions to the meeting’s outcome. Continue Reading

The Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt told Reuters this week that Sweden will not pay more of its loan to Iceland out before the successful completion of the IMF review. The IMF review has, however, been delayed again. Continue Reading

MPs from the smallest party in Iceland’s parliament say that they are against any future neutral mediator in the Icesave issue coming from a Scandinavian country. They told media that they cannot support an intermediary who comes from a country which has put so much political pressure on Iceland to obey the wishes of the Netherlands and the UK. Continue Reading

It’s Christmas Day once more and the Nordic countries have been celebrating since early yesterday evening. Continue Reading

The Scandinavian/Nordic countries can invariably be found atop prosperity indices, with Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark all perennial leaders in quality-of-life surveys. Continue Reading

The journalists’ associations of Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark released a joint statement this week saying they have strong reservations about developments in the Icelandic media since the banking crisis, Continue Reading

An important new find by a team of Swedish archaeologists indicates that the Finland-Sweden border area around the Torne River Valley was inhabited up to 11,000 years ago. Continue Reading

Mar Gudmundsson, Chairman of the Central Bank of Iceland has confirmed that a portion of the promised loan to Iceland from the Scandinavian countries will be requested before the beginning of December and will hopefully be received before Christmas. Continue Reading

An international conference held in Nuuk has sought to understand why so many young men in the circumpolar region take their own lives. Continue Reading