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Photo of Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde (photos@pmo.is) Reykjavik, Iceland/Helsinki, Finland - 28 October 2008 - The Nordic countries have declared their readiness to help Iceland in battling the current financial crisis. A high-level committee will consider Iceland's financial needs following a planned loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and look into how the Nordic states could assist in cooperation with the IMF. High-level committee to present proposals urgently At a...

The Dutch and Danish transmission service operators TenneT and Energinet.dk have decided to look into the possibilities of establishing a power link between Denmark and The Netherlands. The purpose of the link, preliminarily entitled Cobra, is to allow for the integration of more renewable energy into the Dutch and Danish power systems and to increase security of supply. A power link between Denmark and The Netherlands is in line with the European Union's ambitions for a stronger and more...

By Alho, Juha M Fertility is below replacement level in all European countries, and population growth is expected to decline in the coming decades. Increasing life expectancy will accentuate concomitant aging of the population. Migration has been seen as a possible means to decelerate aging. In this article, I introduce a stable, open- population model in which cohort net migration is proportional to births. In this case, the migration-fertility trade-off can be studied with particular ease....

By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - Nordic countries with Finland in the lead have some of the world's most competitive economies, despite high taxes and extensive social security systems, according to a study issued on Wednesday. In the study, the Geneva-based World Economic Forum set the United States second after Finland in its annual competitiveness league but recorded growing business concern over the Bush administration's handling of the nation's finances. Apart from Finland,...

The potential benefit that IVF children bring to society far outweighs the cost of 'producing' them, a scientist said at the 21st annual conference of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology. Dr. Maria Granberg, from the Fertilitetscentrum, Göteborg, Sweden, told the conference that, although the total cost of IVF financed by health care systems in Nordic countries had increased over the last few years, it was still highly profitable to society. "At a time when...