Now that Sweden has called a halt to its five-year trial with negative interest rates the serious work has begun on looking at whether it worked
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LGBTQ activists in Iceland are protesting the planned deportation of a transgender teen and his family who fled Iran last February
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Finnish government has proposed that primary care nurse visits become free of charge
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The world's lowest interest rate may soon be raised in Denmark – new forecasts were triggered by the exchange rate
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POTS: protective optimization technologies
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Vaping: What people are getting wrong
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Finland blazes trail in keeping citizens cycling and healthy – country routinely praised for its schools system aims to do the same with preventive health
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requests a meeting with Norwegian authorities to remove limitations on Russian activity on Svalbard
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When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low
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Finland's woman-led center-left government plans to nearly double the length of paternity leave to give new fathers the same amount of paid time off work as new mothers
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A ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at the latest, under government plans
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Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the punishing signal to curb noise pollution
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Donald Trump’s US border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months
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An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council]
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Universal Basic Income explained – free money for everybody? UBI
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Fitch downgrades Finland's outlook, raising doubts about return to AAA rating
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Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic
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Supreme Court has granted Sámi in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on its land – and not the Swedish state
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Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan
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NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on the year ahead: ‘A lot of things have to go right’
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Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
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Denmark's government wants a planned bridge over the Kattegat sea between Aarhus and Copenhagen to carry trains as well as cars, more than doubling the cost
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Prohibition was a failed US experiment in moral governance
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The Australian government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach
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Taiwan’s single-payer success story — and its lessons for America
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Free-of-charge public transport isn't free, Finnish experts say
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Norway opens its doors to six hundred people evacuated from Libya to Rwanda
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Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019 – reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities
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Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same
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New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things
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Sweden in global spotlight with interest rate move – Riksbank has ended a period of negative rates but will other central banks around the world now follow suit?
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US Congress raises legal age to buy tobacco products to 21
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Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
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Why Kansas City’s free transit experiment matters
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The old man and the rising seas
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Group of Canadian premiers will work together to research and build small modular nuclear reactors
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Some Reddit comments are being hidden by default as "potentially toxic content" (i.e. a swear filter)
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Denmark plans $30 billion offshore wind island that could power ten million homes
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Denmark’s parliament adopted a new climate law on Friday, committing to reach 70% below its 1990 emissions in the next eleven years
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See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood
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Iceland's prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures
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The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects
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Why is childcare so expensive?
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Norwegian sugar tax sends sweet-lovers over border to Sweden
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From January, jet fuel suppliers in Norway must blend 0.5% of biofuel in all their aviation fuel – a policy Oslo hopes will lead to lower CO2 emissions
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Sweden's central bank sells off bonds from Canadian province of Alberta and parts of Australia over climate concerns
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Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change
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Germany makes measles vaccination compulsory
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The great American tax haven: Why the super-rich love South Dakota
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Why the government should tax unhealthy foods and subsidise nutritious ones
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