Analysis
2023 Nordic Council – dominated by security policy
Nov 06, 2023
More defence and security politics in the Nordic Council, but hardly any new money. It is still unclear whether the three autonomous areas can become full-fledged members. Only Sweden opposes a dedicated council of ministers for transport. That is how you could sum up this year’s Nordic Council session.
Analysis
Is the green transition going too fast?
Mar 25, 2022
All the Nordic countries agree that a green transition is needed in order to stop a climate catastrophe. But should the transition also do more than reduce CO2 emissions?
Analysis
|
Corona
Post-Corona recovery more uneven than the crisis itself
Jun 29, 2021
How are the Nordic labour markets doing as the Corona pandemic is hopefully coming to an end? Will it be followed by a strong recovery or will companies that have been kept going with state support now face closure?
Analysis
|
CORONA
Future unemployment development still hard to predict
Jun 11, 2020
Countries tackling the Corona crisis have been trying to bridge a few months while society closes down, allowing as many companies as possible to survive with employees and knowledge intact. This has been the case especially in the Nordics. Politicians have shown willing to spend money in unprecedented ways.
Analysis
Will platform companies fit into the Nordic model?
Jun 22, 2018
Does the Uber driver have an employer? Is the ‘self-employed’ actually an employee? And what will the zero hours worker live from if he or she does not get to work enough hours?
Analysis
New Danish government: A new and challenging course for Danish labour market politics
Jun 22, 2015
Denmark’s new centre-right government faces the hard task of reforming the country’s unemployment benefit model.
Analysis
Labour market and gender: tough challenges for Finland’s new government
Jun 12, 2015
Negotiations to form a new government in Finland are over and the new government ministers in the three party coalition are ready to start the job of lifting the country out of the economic crisis. For the past ten years there has been plenty of political activity but the results have not materialised. Labour market reform is one of the most difficult issues.
Analysis
|
GREENLAND
Greenland — worth the journey
May 21, 2015
The fisheries producing the Greenland prawns and halibut still represent Greenland’s most important industry, and the grant from Denmark is still the country’s largest source of money. The dream is for mining and perhaps oil to make up a larger part of the revenue.
Analysis
Social scientists must guide us out of the crisis
Oct 15, 2014
"There is a fire of resentment burning across Europe, and there’s an urgent need to calm tensions. Social scientists need to get involved. Dogmatic economists have been allowed to dominate the debate for too long," says Maurizio Ferrera, Professor at the University of Milan.
Analysis
Nokia's scraps mobile ecosystem in fight to survive
May 02, 2011
Nokia is shedding thousands of staff world-wide - the equivalent of one in ten workers within its mobile telephone business. The move is part of Nokia's attempt to remain in profit and improve the growth outlook within a completely new technological ecosystem.
Analysis
Laval case brings new Swedish law
Apr 11, 2010
After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing the Swedish Parliament passed legislation on 24 March to reflect the Court of Justice of the European Union's judgement in the much-debated Laval case.