Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: Scandinavian music, South By Southwest, SXSW, SXSW 2010
This year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas is set to promote Scandinavian music, with around fifty different Scandinavian artists and musicians showcasing in front of countless music lovers and journalists.
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Posted in Culture, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, General, Greenland, Iceland, International, Leisure, Music, Norway, Scandinavia, Sweden, United States
Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: Iceland, interest rates, the Central Bank of Iceland
Central Bank of Iceland press release: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to lower Central Bank interest rates by 0.5 percentage points.
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, MBL
Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: ireland, Norway, oslo, st. patrick's Day
The Oslo Caledonian Pipe Band (OCPB) was the main attraction in this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in the Norwegian capital city.
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Posted in Culture, General, International, Leisure, Lifestyle, MBL, Music, Norway
Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: Denmark, EU, FARC, palestine, terrorism
The spokesman for Danish association Foreningen Opror has been sentenced by a district court to a suspended six-month prison term over allegations of supporting terrorism.
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Posted in Denmark, General, International, MBL, Politics
Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: currency, gylfi magnusson, Iceland, Politics
28 cases of organisations breaking Iceland’s strict temporary currency restrictions have been sent to the FME financial regulator, according to Minister for Economic Affairs Gylfi Magnusson.
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: economy, Norway, Oil, recession
The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has announced that his government will limit spending of oil revenue beginning in 2011 as a safeguard against overheating the economy and forcing interest rates up.
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Posted in Business, General, MBL, Norway, Politics, Society
Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: debt, Iceland
Total Treasury debt at the end of 2009 corresponded to 78 percent of GDP.
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Posted in General, Iceland, MBL
Posted on 16 March 2010. Tags: britain, Holland, Iceland, Icesave, netherlands, UK
The British and Dutch authorities are ready to continue negotiation of a payment solution with Iceland to the Icesave issue which still rumbles on.
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Posted in General, Holland, Iceland, MBL, Politics, United Kingdom
Posted on 16 March 2010. Tags: Denmark, fetish, pervert, police
A Danish man has local authorities near the town of Kokkedal bemused and somewhat amused after reports that an apparent fetishist has been approaching a number of females in the area and asking them if they wouldn’t mind breaking wind on him.
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Posted in Denmark, General, MBL
Posted on 16 March 2010. Tags: committee, Europe, Iceland, punishment, torture
The Council of Europe’s European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) elected last week its new Bureau.
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Posted in European Union, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Politics, Society