Sweden faces criticism over border controls
The government’s rationale for introducing and keeping border controls has been criticised by the National Audit Office. Last week, the
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Norway hikes 2017 defense budget
2,1 billion Norwegian kroner (€231 million) increase year on year, of which the majority addresses the Armed Forces long-term defense
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Blog: Poirier’s Revenge – The map of Canada has the wrong Arctic boundaries. No, really.
When Polar Knowledge Canada was created out of the ashes of the Canadian Polar Commission in 2015, it published a
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Iceland’s Pirate Party leads polls few days before elections
Like the eruption from Eyjafjallajökull shocked air-traffic across Europe in 2010, Iceland today experiences a political earthquake where the Pirate
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NATO membership not joint Finnish-Swedish decision: President Niinistö
President Sauli Niinistö has told Yle that there is no automatic link that would require Finland and Sweden to coordinate
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Blog: Why northern development is hard
Everyone seems to love simplifications these days; maybe it’s always been so. We want to be told that solutions to
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Sweden’s Greens torn on Vattenfall’s coal mines
Green Party members from all over the country gather in Örebro for the party’s first ever congress as a member
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Sweden’s renewable energy tax proposal under fire
Researchers and solar power advocates criticise the government’s plans to introduce a tax on renewable energies, Swedish Radio News reports.
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Deline self-government agreement passes 1st reading
Deline hopes to have N.W.T.’s first community self-government by April 2016 The community of Deline, N.W.T., took an important step
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Canada’s N.W.T. cuts northern allowance for staff in Arctic communities
The northern allowance payment for some employees of the Government of Canada’s Northwest Territories went down on April 1. In
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