Here are the Scandinavian countries.

The Scandinavian countries showed the way two decades ago.

A contrasting set of cases comes from the Scandinavian countries.

And in Scandinavian countries, fathers' income is much less important.

Including the Scandinavian!

Including the Scandinavian.

They felt that enlargement even to the Scandinavian and Alpine countries was going too far.

When you're traveling around Madrid, Rome, the Scandinavian countries do you take your gypsies along?

In the Scandinavian countries, as in the US, foreign competition intensified sharply during the past decade.

In the 1980 s, Scandinavian countries stood for chronic budget deficits, high inflation, and repeated devaluations.

The date is usually put somewhere in the early 11th century in all three Scandinavian countries.

Of course, it is dangerous to idealize the Scandinavian model. Scandinavian countries have their share of problems, such as Denmark s significant xenophobic extreme right and Norway s occasional bouts of provincial puritanism.

As the past decade shows, they have served the Scandinavian countries well during a period of extreme internationalization.

The project, now named Polar View, benefits from the participation of a number of Scandinavian countries as well.

(They are strongly opposed by Holland, the Scandinavian countries, and the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, which are familiar with communist repression.)

Moreover, Italy spends around 4.5 of GDP on education, while the Scandinavian countries spend more than 6 of GDP.

Could the Scandinavian model work for others?

To be sure, Scandinavian growth is mediocre.

Certain Scandinavian countries, Chinese provinces, and the city state of Singapore, for example, are ideally positioned to try this approach.

The principle of centralisation characteristic for Scandinavian countries dominated branches of the National Museum of History encompassed the whole country.

According to Latvia, the purpose of the facility is to monitor communications in northern Europe, especially among the Scandinavian countries.

The variation from year to year is mainly caused by import export of electricity from the two other Scandinavian countries.

Scandinavian countries have their share of problems, such as Denmark s significant xenophobic extreme right and Norway s occasional bouts of provincial puritanism.

The three Baltic states will most likely cooperate much more closely with the Scandinavian countries than with the other new members.

In the 2005 rankings, Iceland scored as the least corrupt country, with the Scandinavian countries, New Zealand, and Singapore close behind.

Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Oslo

(men's voices) (first man) Must be a Scandinavian ship.

But the Scandinavian countries have shown that there is another way. Of course, government, like the private sector, must strive for efficiency.

But the example set by Scandinavian countries, which combine a generous welfare state with pro business policies and traditions, repudiates such claims.

In the Scandinavian countries, as opposed to, say, Germany and the US, the government, not individual companies, are responsible for most social benefits.

The Benelux countries, some Scandinavian states, and many of the new Europeans of East Central Europe have chosen traditionally right of centre parties.

Of course, it is dangerous to idealize the Scandinavian model.

In Denmark, the National Commissioner of Police seconds police officers to countries from which the smuggling of aliens is carried out on international flights to Denmark and other Scandinavian countries.

The differences for instance between the Scandinavian countries, the Mediterranean countries, and the liberal Atlantic countries like Ireland and the UK are sometimes more pronounced than those between Europe as a whole and the US.

There was Scotland last year, and our Scandinavian cruise the year before.

This November, Nord Stream was given a surprising go ahead by three Scandinavian countries that will lend their seabed to the project Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.

While most of the world s advanced countries face increasing difficulties in coping with the forces of globalization and competition from low wage countries, the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden seem to have managed these challenges quite well.

Most Scandinavian countries, and some English speaking countries, back up the national measures that they have taken by making financial contributions, through their national development agencies, to programmes of action in developing countries where female genital mutilation is practised.

These include epic crises in the Scandinavian countries, Spain, and Japan, along with lesser events such as the US savings and loan crises of the 1980 s.

Sweden ( ), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

Human Rights Violations and Mental Health (Lavik, Sveaass, Nygard, Fannemel) Scandinavian University Press (1994).

With average yearly GDP growth of 2.2 from 1995 to 2005 it fell short of the non Scandinavian countries of the EU 15, which grew by 2.8 on average.

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.

Margaret I (, , , ), (March 1353 28 October 1412), was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and founder of the Kalmar Union, which united the Scandinavian countries for over a century.

The third option is the Scandinavian way. Here government demand for labor keeps wages high.