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Red workers with white sails
Sports and politics are closely related in Finland. For more than a century, the country has had double sports clubs – for people on the political left and the political right. Now, the Finnish Workers’ Sports Federation is considering its future as fewer and fewer identify as workers and class divisions decrease.
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Security issues drive political changes in Nordics and EU
Sweden has a new minister for employment, Denmark has established a new ministry for civil security and Finland secured one of six Executive Vice Presidents in the European Commission.
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Mixed Nordic reception for EU traineeship directive
Once again, the European Commission is proposing regulations on matters that the member states manage best themselves, argues the Swedish parliament. It is now submitting a “yellow card” against the Commission’s proposal for an EU directive on better conditions for trainees, put forward in spring 2024.
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Young Norwegians increasingly unhappy with working life
The 2024 Working Life Barometer shows more people are struggling financially, more fear losing their jobs or becoming ill and many young people are unhappy with working life.
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Finnish future report: Youths worry about fitting into the labour market
Finnish school students have become more anxious about their ability to succeed in the future job market. A new future report shows only 53 per cent of young people are enthusiastic about entering the labour market. In 2018 82 per cent said the same.
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Danish farmers “exploiting foreign interns”
Danish farmers are using cheap labour from Vietnam, Uganda, Tanzania and India by using an agricultural intern programme. Trade unions have been critical to their working conditions and have secured continued oversight of the programme.
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How do you stop the exploitation of foreign labour?
There have always been groups of foreign workers in the Nordic labour markets who are hard to define. Are they coming to work, study or as a cultural exchange? They might be au pairs, interns or berry pickers.
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Estonia welcomes Sweden and Finland into Nato
One year after Finland joined Nato, Sweden has also become part of the Nato family. This brings them together with Norway, Iceland and Denmark, members since the start in 1949.
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When the Nordic open labour market ended overnight
This summer, the common Nordic labour market will be 70 years old. But have we really been able to work freely in a neighbouring Nordic country for that whole period of time? The border between Norway and Sweden was closed for 23 months during the Corona pandemic, a new book published by the Svinesund Committee…
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Iceland’s Katrín Jakobsdóttir runs for president, triggering major changes
Prime Minster Katrín Jakobsdóttir‘s decision to step down in order to run for president of Iceland could create trouble for the government coalition she has been instrumental in keeping together.
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