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Brussels gunman suspect was known to police but not on watchlist. 15:41, Athena Stavrou. A man suspected of shooting dead two Swedish football fans and wounding another in Brussels was a 45-year ...
[127] [128] It is the 10th most competitive economy in the world, and 6th in Europe, according to the World Economic Forum in its Global Competitiveness Report 2018. [129] Denmark has the fourth highest ratio of tertiary degree holders in the world. [130] The country ranks highest in the world for workers' rights. [131]
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; lit. ' the North ') [2] are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway [a] and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.
The country's news is reported in English by, among others, The Local (liberal). [291] The public broadcasting companies held a monopoly on radio and television for a long time in Sweden. Licence-funded radio broadcasts started in 1925. A second radio network was started in 1954, and a third opened 1962, in response to pirate radio stations.
The condition for news media to achieve this role is the peaceful environment of diversity of editorial ownership and free speech. White Paper No.57 claimed that real content diversity can only be attained by a pluralistically owned and independent editorial media whose production is founded on the principles of journalistic professionalism.
Denmark's new King Frederik X who was proclaimed king on Jan. 14, and his Australian-born wife Queen Mary will travel to Sweden and Norway in May on their first foreign state tour, the palace said ...
The book is a list of the 100 Swedes that according to the authors have had "the greatest influence on Swedish people's lives, and also people's lives around the world". [2] There are 84 men and 16 women on the list. Around 40 of them lived in the previous century, and 16 were still alive as of the book's publication. [3]
This year, the U.S. passport is the seventh in the world ranking, tied with four other countries — Belgium, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland. All of them have access to 186 visa-free ...