Scandinavia

Named because it was found in Scandinavia

Named after the old name of Scandinavia, 'Thule '.

Most of Britain, all of Scandinavia, covered by ice several kilometers thick.

Moreover, Belarus was a transit point for people hoping to settle in Western Europe and Scandinavia.

Now it sounds crazy. But in some places around the world, like Scandinavia, you already have that.

Electricity grids are divided into two parts, the eastern part linked to Scandinavia and the western part to the European mainland.

Comparisons with the other Nordic countries indicate clearly that young people in Iceland stay at home much longer than young people in Scandinavia.

On the one hand it pays lip service to the idea of rebuild an effective state in the image of Scandinavia in the 1950s.

No wonder that most of the most important international operators in Germany, but also in France and the UK and Scandinavia, everywhere, systematically bribed.

Lookofsky, J. M. Understanding the CISG in Scandinavia a compact guide to the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

In Denmark, fluctuations in electricity trade, as driven by precipitation and water runoff in Scandinavia, lead to higher variations in emissions than fluctuations in temperature.

The University of Copenhagen s mergers with the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences have made it the largest university in Scandinavia.

But, while it is comfortable to live in the social democratic world of Scandinavia, Germany, and other European countries, many of them have purchased their equality on credit from future generations.

The world s most successful economies today are in Scandinavia. By using high taxes to finance a high level of government services, these countries have balanced high prosperity with social justice and environmental sustainability.

And so it was a great shock to all of us when the film really captured the public interest, and today is mandatory viewing in schools in England and Scotland, and most of Scandinavia.

Of course, women s changing status may not translate immediately into growing political influence. And the rest of Europe might never follow the example of Scandinavia, where gender equality has advanced much further than anywhere else.

If we say just small scale production, as is the tendency here, to go back to local food means that a poor man like Hans Rosling cannot even eat oranges anymore because in Scandinavia we don't have oranges.

Furthermore, shortages in Poland s residential rental market restrict workers ability to move to where the jobs are. Arguably, Poland s labor market is more akin to Spain s than that of Scandinavia, where generous social protection allows for extensive employee training.

Some societies, most notably in Scandinavia, maintain the expectation that their public officials and business leaders should and will act ethically and honestly. In these countries, ministers are forced to resign for petty infractions that would seem trivial in other countries.

Without Britain, they would be bossed around by France, and even more so by Germany. And yet, as memories of World War II fade, more and more people in the Netherlands and Scandinavia feel content to be under Germany s powerful wings.

Northern Germany and southern Scandinavia were the first regions to experience mass literacy, which was followed by faster economic development a few decades later. These are places where women s average age at marriage has been around 23 for some time.

It is no accident, for example, that Europe s most successful welfare states were created in ethnically homogeneous Scandinavia. People in those countries had the sense that they could understand their neighbors and fellow citizens, and that they shared a close link with them.

This is the genius of social democracy, the philosophy pioneered in Scandinavia, but also deployed in many developing countries, such as Costa Rica. The idea is simple and powerful All people deserve a chance, and society needs to help everybody to secure that chance.

Second, the minority who do choose Germany, France, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, or Hungary are not enemies who have come to destroy us or even to sponge off of European taxpayers. They are applicants for freedom, lovers of our promised land, our social model, and our values.

In Sweden, it amounts to 33.5 of dependent employment (total employment excluding the self employed), and 32.9 in Denmark. On average the share of state employment in the workforce across Scandinavia is 32.7 , compared to only 18.5 on average in the non Scandinavian countries of the EU 15.

A Scandinavian level of taxes would be bearable if public services did not remain inferior to those offered in Scandinavia. For example, per capita health care spending in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland exceeds 3,000, compared to only 2,300 in Italy, where households must contribute roughly 20 of total health care spending.

Almost 40 countries had introduced single regulators, merging all types of oversight into a single all powerful entity. The movement began in Scandinavia in the early 1990 s, but the most dramatic change came in 1997, when the United Kingdom introduced its Financial Services Authority (I was its first chairman).

For example, while many countries are facing a jobs crisis, one part of the capitalist world is doing just fine northern Europe, including Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. Germany s unemployment rate this past summer was around 5.5 , and its youth unemployment rate was around 8 remarkably low compared with many other high income economies.

This new vulnerability stands in stark contrast to the stability of the over regulated post World War II period. The crises in the US in the 1980 s (caused by the savings and loan institutions known as thrifts ), and in Japan and Scandinavia in the 1990 s, showed that financial liberalization without proper regulation induces instability.

Likewise, Russia s president, Vladimir Putin, may emphasize the specificity of Russian civilization in a manner evocative of nineteenth century anti Western thinkers but many in the Russian elite still consider the European Union, despite its many weaknesses, the most civilized model of governance that exists. When Chinese seek a benchmark model for social protection, they go on study trips to Scandinavia.

Equality seems to have eluded central banks even in gender conscious Scandinavia. For example, Norway, which has been promoting positive gender discrimination for years and recently elected Erna Solberg as its first female prime minister, has yet to allow a woman to control the purse strings at either the central bank or the finance ministry, with its powerful sovereign wealth fund.

Only one high income region has done a reasonably good job of preparing its youth, and its overall economy, for tough global competition Northern Europe, including Germany and Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden). In these countries, public education is excellent, and the transition from school to work often involves programs like the apprenticeships for which Germany is especially famous.

The acceleration of US economic growth in the late 1990's posed a puzzle for those of us who looked across the Atlantic at Western Europe where was Europe's new economy ? We could see it in Scandinavia, and in scattered pockets elsewhere, but the strong imprint of improved computer and communications technologies on the growth rates of output and productivity economy wide seemed to be missing.