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• In Denmark the principal language is Danish, with about 5,750,000 speakers (in 2018), but varieties of German are spoken in…

The Nordic countries have a particular parliamentary culture characterised by consensus and working across party lines. Their parliaments remain…

The Nordic experience is characterised by an upward spiral of development resulting from a close interconnection between a strong civil society and a…

Corporatism is about the influence of organisations and interest groups on policy making. The Nordic countries are societies with strong interest…

The Arctic Council was established in 1996 by the Ottawa Declaration with the intent of fostering “cooperation, coordination, and interaction between…

The 'labour movement' refers to the network of political, industrial, voluntary, educational and recreational organisations with a socialist or labour…

Playwrights Kent Andersson and Bengt Bratt were instrumental in developing group theatre, an anti-establishment genre promoting radical social…

Immigration has been described as one of the policy areas where Denmark, Norway and Sweden have differed most since 1995. In 2018, Denmark was amongst…

Trade unions play a more important role in Nordic politics and economics than they do in most other countries. This is largely a result of their…

The feminist movement that flourished in the Nordic countries during the 1970s had strong roots in anti-capitalist, socialist ideology. It was powered…