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
Posted on 09 March 2010. Tags: babies, court, Finland, helsinki, jewish, judaism, legal
A Helsinki couple has been fined by the District Court for allowing their baby son to be circumcised.
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Posted in Culture, Finland, General, Lifestyle, MBL, Society, United Kingdom
Posted on 07 March 2010. Tags: Finland, neo nazi, police, right wing, website
An online hate website calling for the murder of immigrants and leading national politicians is under scrutiny from the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, with early intelligence revealing that the Finnish-language site is administered by a notorious American neo-Nazi.
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Posted in Culture, Finland, General, Lifestyle, MBL, Society, Technology, United States
Posted on 06 March 2010. Tags: Iceland, Icesave, referendum, voting
Icelanders have been voting in the referendum on December's Icesave law since 09.00 this morning.
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Posted in General, Iceland, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 05 March 2010. Tags: economy, employment, housekeeping, incentive, Politics, Sweden, tax
A campaign has been launched by the Swedish Moderate Party to highlight housekeeping as a vital issue in forthcoming elections and also to exploit potential divisions among opposition parties, notably the Left-Green alliance.
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Posted in Business, General, MBL, Politics, Society, Sweden
Posted on 02 March 2010. Tags: Icesave, Press centre, referendum
General information about the 6 March referendum on the Icesave issue from the Government of Iceland. Information about press centers and where to vote.
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Posted in General, Iceland, Icelandic PM´s office, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 02 March 2010. Tags: canabis, drugs, police, Sweden
Police in southern Sweden received a visit from an unhappy member of the public who asked authorities to test the hashish be had purchased for traces of LSD, complaining that the smoke had been way too strong.
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Posted in General, Lifestyle, MBL, Society, Sweden
Posted on 01 March 2010. Tags: equality, lund, study, Sweden, university, women
Southern Sweden’s Lund University has agreed to pay out compensation to two dozen female students who were refused entrance into the psychology programme on gender grounds.
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Posted in General, MBL, Politics, Society, Sweden
Posted on 28 February 2010. Tags: church, conservative, Finland, gay rights, women
The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church is desperately seeking reconciliation between conservatives and reformists as it searches for a new Archbishop to preside over what is becoming an increasingly acrimonious conflict.
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Posted in Culture, Finland, General, Lifestyle, MBL, Society
Posted on 27 February 2010. Tags: bicycles, crime, Denmark, police, theft
Danish bicycle owners are facing widespread thievery; particularly in the capital, Copenhagen. In the past year there have been an astonishing 80,000 reports of taken two-wheelers, with just one out of every three hundred recovered by authorities.
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Posted in Denmark, General, Lifestyle, MBL, Society