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Racing against nature tema

Racing against nature

Feb 09, 2011 For two months every year John Johansen (45) works seven days a week, 14 hours a day. He'll drive 2,600 kilometres and count some 120,000 soon-to-be-born sheep. "I start in Rogaland on 12 January, then I drive to East-Norway and then north from there. I finish in Vardø on 14 March. By then I'll have performed ultrasound scans on some 50,000 sheep."
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Portable working hours

Feb 09, 2011 One in three Norwegian workers are contacted by work in their spare time once every week or more. Do we slave away until we drop because we have email on our smartphones, our home office comes with us on holiday and you and your job compete to have more friends on Facebook and Twitter? When the time for restitution ends up in a grey zone between work and leisure time, what does that do to us?
Welfare model put to the test tema

Welfare model put to the test

Sep 07, 2011 The Nordic countries worked their way through the 2008 financial crisis. The welfare model largely shared by the five countries proved effective. Now the world economy is on shaky ground yet again. Can the Nordic model still be a third way between the more brutal Anglo-Saxon model and the lack of state financial control seen in many Mediterranean countries?
Equality driver of Iceland’s success tema

Equality driver of Iceland’s success

Sep 07, 2011 Higher taxes for those who have the most, protection of the poor and debt relief to businesses and households - all part of the recipe to get a bankrupt state back on track according to the Icelandic experience. You also need a proper post-party tidy-up, get the economy in balance and prevent criminal activity from repeating itself.
An election coloured by crisis tema

An election coloured by crisis

Sep 07, 2011 Which politicians can best guide Denmark through the current economic crisis, where more and more Danes fear going bust or end up unemployed? That is the deciding question in the Danish elections this month.
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Populists govern in opposition

Sep 07, 2011 Support for Finland’s populist True Finns Party has grown after the spring parliamentary elections. It means the new government is forced to take into account the factors behind the party’s growth, and first and foremost their demand for more expansive social policies to support the weakest in society.
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Crises test the strength of the Nordic welfare models

Sep 07, 2011 The economic crisis hit Iceland like a hurricane. The political power balance in Finland ended up being radically different after the June election and one month later Norway suffered a terror attack. But the challenges also demonstrate the Nordic welfare society’s strength.
New ways of life increase need for Nordic ombudsman tema

New ways of life increase need for Nordic ombudsman

Jun 17, 2011 Border obstacles have been on the political agenda since the Common Nordic Labour Market was established in 1954. When one obstacle is removed, another pops up.
Ole Norrback: Border obstacles are all about political will tema

Ole Norrback: Border obstacles are all about political will

Jun 17, 2011 While Nordic politicians talk about the challenges of globalisation and how to turn the Nordic region into a dynamic region of growth, new border obstacles emerge to complicate lives of citizens and businesses alike.
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The ten most serious border obstacles

Jun 17, 2011 Border obstacles are not only things that make it difficult for Nordic citizens to settle down and work in a different Nordic country from their own. They are also problems which arise when you move back home, when you fall ill or when you need to draw your pension. NLJ and the Freedom of Movement Forum have drawn up a list of the ten most important border obstacles for working life.
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