Residents of a wealthy Stockholm suburb have complained to the police about a tour agency’s plan to run ‘high-society safaris’ in their neighbourhood.
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Class safari shocks Stockholm snobs
Posted on 30 January 2012.
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Icelandic PM’s salary beaten by many, including David Oddsson
Posted on 27 July 2011.
Many local government officials, businesspeople and media personalities in Iceland are on higher wages than the Prime Minister, it has come to light.
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Icelandic tax figures for 2010 released today
Posted on 25 July 2011.
Tax figures for 2010 have been made public today in Iceland. The yearly event allows media and other interested parties to make a good guess at what any individual earned during the last year.
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Oslo ‘becoming like Manhattan’
Posted on 30 April 2011.
The centre of Oslo is “becoming like Manhattan”, according to the leader of the council who claims “only the richest can afford to live” in Norway’s capital city.
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Average Danish bank balance in hundreds of thousands
Posted on 14 June 2010.
Experts warn that figures suggesting that the average Danish bank balance is DKK 179,000 (USD 28,700) may be misleading.
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Why Europe’s wealthy are not moving to Scandinavia
Posted on 21 December 2009.
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.
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Iceland tax figures indicate highest earners
Posted on 30 July 2009.
There is one day each year when the results from the previous year’s tax returns are made public. After submitting tax returns for 2008 at the end of the winter, people were yesterday able to find out whether their own personal tax payments needed topping up or if they were in line for a pleasant [...]
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Icelandic First Lady sued in London by neighbour
Posted on 03 July 2009.
The First Lady of Iceland, Dorrit Moussaieff, has been sued by her neighbour in London, Tiggy Butler. Butler, who is also an interior designer, has been pressing charges against First Lady Moussaieff because of alleged aggressive behaviour and threats made by the First Lady. According to the news source, Daily Mail, the two ladies each [...]
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