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9 July 2008
Denmark
officially in recession: Europe to follow
23 June 2008
Swedish
government adopts invasive wire-tapping measures
2 June 2008
Unions
work to close down Scandinavian healthcare strikes
22 May 2008
Credit
crisis hits Iceland
2 May 2008
Health
care strikes in Scandinavia
28 February 2008
Denmark's
media mount a provocation by reprinting Mohammed cartoons
27 February 2008
Sweden:
Economic turmoil hits privatisation drive
29 December 2007
Danish
elections: Government remains dependent on far right
23 November 2007
Finland:
What are the social roots of school gunman's murderous rage?
20 September 2006
Sweden:
Right-wing coalition takes power
4 August 2006
A
reply to a reader on the Vaxholm builders' dispute in Sweden
27 June 2006
Sweden:
Lessons of the Vaxholm builders' dispute
15 March 2006
Denmark:
Police arrest members of the Left Socialist Party
10 February 2006
Denmark and Jyllands-Posten: The background
to a provocation
23 November 2005
Growing
international tension over the Arctic
4 October 2005
Norway:
Labour elected thanks to hostility to Conservatives
18 February 2005
Social
Democrats routed in Danish election
10 February 2005
Scandinavian
governments criticised for poor tsunami response
5 November 2004
Swedish
union bureaucracy uses GM strike to undercut German workers
18 August 2004
Norway:
"anti-terror" investigation exposes US-backed torture
in northern Iraq
21 July 2004
Sweden:
Anna Lindh killer's conviction thrown out
24 April 2004
Danish
whistleblower charged after accusing prime minister of exaggerating
Iraqi WMD
17 April 2004
Sweden:
Anna Lindh's killer given life sentence
14 February 2004
US
pressures Norway to extradite leading exiled Kurd
4 February 2004
Sweden:
Anna Lindh murder trial ends
19 September 2003
Swedish
"no" vote on euro deepens crisis in Europe
13 September 2003
Sweden:
Murder of Foreign Minister Lindh expresses volatile social relations
Vote no in the Swedish euro referendum
1 July 2003
Finland:
Prime minister resigns over Iraq war scandal
12 June 2003
Danish
government challenged over support for Iraq war
5 June 2003
More
job losses at Swedish telecom giant Ericsson
19 March 2003
US
war drive dominates Finnish elections
6 February 2003
Scandinavian
governments divided over US-led war vs. Iraq
24 December 2002
Anti-globalisation
demonstrations in Copenhagen
12 December 2002
Norway:
Budget pledges attacks on social provisions, tax cuts and privatisation
22 October 2002
Helsinki
bomb tragedy points to social tensions in Finland
17 October 2002
Sweden:
Social Democratic government propped up by Greens and Lefts
18 September 2002
Swedish
Social Democrats hold on to government
29 August 2002
Sweden:
IMF and OECD demand deeper social cuts Nail
28 August 2002
Swedish
general election campaign focuses on immigration
11 July 2002
Norway:
left parties and trade unions embrace far-right Progress Party
13 June 2002
Danish
parliament co-opts anti-immigrant program of extreme right
30 April 2002
Ericsson
plan 17,000 more job losses
12 April 2002
Sweden:
Social Democrats abandon 200 years of neutrality
6 February 2002
Sweden's
Ericsson posts historic losses
5 February 2002
Danish
government toughens laws for foreigners
29 January 2002
Long
prison sentences in Norwegian neo-Nazi murder trial
28 November 2001
Social
Democrats routed in Danish parliamentary election
17 November 2001
Danish
elections overshadowed by the "fight against terrorism"
30 October 2001
New
Norwegian government relies on far right Progress Party
4 October 2001
Scandinavian
governments register support for Bush's war against terrorism
24 September 2001
Norway:
Conservatives and far-right Progress Party on brink of power
20 July 2001
Three demonstrators shot, hundreds arrested at Göteborg
EU summit
European leaders demand harsher police action
25 April 2001
Norway's
far-right Progress Party splits
13 February 2001
Mass
protests against racist murder in Norway
1 February 2001
Ericsson
outsourcing deal threatens 11,000 jobs worldwide
3 January 2001
Sweden
strives to deepen EU penetration of Baltic states
19 December 2000
Norway's
extreme right Progress Party wracked by internal feuding
29 November 2000
Rightwing
violence in Sweden
30 September 2000
An
exchange on the Danish Euro referendum
20 September 2000
Right-wing
politics dominate Danish Euro referendum
19 September 2000
Fuel
tax protests throughout Scandinavia
6 September 2000
Progress
Party overtakes Labour in Norwegian opinion polls
24 May 2000
Danish
Social Democrats vote for entry into European single currency
11 May 2000
Norway:
unions close down general strike against inequality
27 April 2000
Finnish
unions derail workers' offensive
8 April 2000
Norwegian
train crash forces
evacuation of town
15 March 2000
Norwegian
Labour Party, Conservatives and Progress Party oust Bondevik
Government
24 February 2000
Norway
intensifies persecution of asylum seekers
8 January 2000
Train
drivers boycott crash line in aftermath of Norway rail disaster
11 November 1999
Protests
against fascist murder in Sweden
13 October 1999
"Europeans
only" housing legalised in Norway
11 October 1999
Social
Democratic government in Sweden pressed to adopt euro
10 September 1999
Norway
targets immigrants for attack and discrimination
17 June 1999
Elections
show Denmark split on European Union
9 June 1999
Run-up to the European elections
Danish government lays ground for growth of racist party
15 April 1999
Kvaerner
shipbuilders to shed thousands of jobs in Europe
25 March 1999
Election
slump for Finnish social democrats
19 March 1999
Sweden continued eugenics policy until 1976
Social Democrats implemented measures
to forcibly sterilise 62,000 people
18 March 1999
Sweden
edges towards adopting the euro |
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