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Frustrated border commuters in the south, hopeful border cooperation in the north nyhet

Frustrated border commuters in the south, hopeful border cooperation in the north

Train delays resulting from ID checks at Öresund is irritating and tiring for many border commuters, while new agreements for cooperation are made in the Nordics’ northern regions. Commuter routes between Norway and Sweden are also as busy as ever.
Unique study compares how Denmark, Norway and Sweden integrate refugees nyhet

Unique study compares how Denmark, Norway and Sweden integrate refugees

Who is best out of Denmark, Norway and Sweden at integrating refugees into their labour market? The answer depends at what stage after the refugees’ arrival you measure the success. Refugees to Denmark find jobs faster, but in the longer run more refugees get jobs in Sweden than in Denmark. Norway is the clear winner when it comes to integrating female refugees.
Norway launches initiative against work-related crime during EU summit tema
| Nov 2017

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.
Norwegian women have lost the most power tema

Norwegian women have lost the most power

Norway has been the hottest country in the gender equality debate since quotas were made law there in 2008. Publicly listed firms, often major listed companies, must have at least 40 percent of each sex in their boardrooms. Yet at the same time women have lost more positions of power in Norway than in any other Nordic country.
 “It had to be the Nordics” – why a Danish priest chose Norway tema

“It had to be the Nordics” – why a Danish priest chose Norway

Anne Anker Bolstad is one of many Danish priests working in Norway, where there is a great priest shortage.
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How to get Danes to retire later – like Norwegians and Swedes do

Norwegians and Swedes retire later than their Danish neighbours, partly because their pensions keep growing with each extra year they spend in the labour market. This is one of the 11 good reasons a new report highlights for Denmark to learn from what Sweden and Norway do.
FMs Lavrov and Støre call border agreement small yet important nyhet

FMs Lavrov and Støre call border agreement small yet important

Norway's and Russia's Foreign Ministers signed an agreement on 2 November making it much easier for 9,000 Norwegians and 45,00o Russians to visit each other.
Norway falling on integration index – or is it? nyhet

Norway falling on integration index – or is it?

Over the past five years, Norway has lost its position among the top ten countries with the most inclusive and generous migration policy, according to MIPEX 2020. But what does that really mean?
Swedish youths’ first job in Norway tema

Swedish youths’ first job in Norway

Anyone moving to another Nordic country must have some money - the first pay check doesn’t come immediately, but the living costs do. In Norway you normally have to pay a three months’ deposit on top of the first month’s rent - enough to stop many young people in their tracks.
Norway pushes ahead with boardroom equality nyhet

Norway pushes ahead with boardroom equality

1 July 2005 was the deadline for the Norwegian business world to voluntarily make sure there is at least 40 per cent of each gender in company boardrooms. Only 17 per cent of companies have managed that. For the others, the demand will no longer be voluntary. It will be the law.
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