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- Norway launches initiative against work-related crime during EU summit
- Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg seized the moment at the EU summit on social rights. She launched an offensive against work-related crime. Norway offers to work with an EU country to develop a more efficient control system.
- The Faroese's tense relationship to the EU
- 50,000 people live in the Faroe Islands. There are 500 people in the EU. But do the Faroese want to be members in the big club and cooperate? The answer is a bit like the wind blowing across the stormy islands – it goes in all directions. Everyone wants closer cooperation, yet what that means depends on who you ask.
- Matilda af Hällström, entrepreneurial Nordic Council lobbyist in Brussels
- It is an active 24-year-old which the Nordic Council has chosen to be its first local representative in Brussels. Matilda af Hällström is already busy finding out how the Nordic Council can improve its cooperation with the EU and within the EU.
- The Nordic region in Europe
- The EU’s social pillar has been signed at the Social Summit in Gothenburg. Is there reason to fear it will challenge the Nordic model? What does the international trade union movement think? What do employers suggest, and what do the people and Europe’s leaders make of it?
- Gothenburg EU summit: “We are taking the Nordic model to Europe"
- The mood was very good as trade unions and voluntary organisations met ahead of the EU summit focusing on the social pillar.
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