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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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Nordic working group to suggest how to remove border obstacles

Jun 17, 2011 A Nordic working group has been commissioned to present solutions for how to remove 39 border obstacles identified as being to the detriment of working life and social insurance systems in the Nordic countries.
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Renewed fight against Nordic border obstacles

Jun 17, 2011 Nordic Labour Journal has made a top 10 list of border obstacles which make it harder to lead a family life or to live and work across the Nordic borders. Essi Rentola, heads a Nordic working group trying to solve 39 border obstacles She estimates between a third and half of the proposals need to be solved on an EU level.
Welfare state and social partners’ cooperation tema

Welfare state and social partners’ cooperation

Nov 13, 2011 Cooperation with the social partners is central when politicians in Norway and Denmark sit down to write new political programmes - be it Denmark’s new government programme or the programme for Norway’s 2012 presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
How do the unions handle the new debate on salary gaps? tema

How do the unions handle the new debate on salary gaps?

Nov 13, 2011 Over the past decade the number of working days lost due to labour conflicts has been very low. Illegal industrial action has nearly disappeared altogether. Meanwhile the pay gap has widened considerably. But now there is fresh disquiet. How do unions deal with these new times?
”Change or die” - mobilising and modernising unions tema

”Change or die” - mobilising and modernising unions

Nov 13, 2011 From 2007 to 2011 Swedish trade unions lost 273,000 members. Worst hit was the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) and the lowest numbers of union membership was found among young people and people of foreign heritage. But unions are not passively watching the fall in membership numbers - on the contrary, they are mobilising to reach old and new members.
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