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cooperation, people and politics. Can Norwegian cicadas sing? Russian MPs on exchange visit Gender equality good for the police Nordic study of food sector Nordic-Baltic campaign against drugs Action Plan for Adjacent Areas evaluated Streamlining Nordic co-operation Cultural institutions to close Nordic Forum discusses the increase of pornography New Border Regions Network Arctic co-operation high up agenda Wanted: Region without borders Revitalising cultural co-operation
This month's news from Norden - the Top of
Europe - July, 2005 - http://www.norden.org/topofeurope/
The
newsletter is also available in Russian.
Cikada Ensemble awarded the Nordic
Council Music Prize 2005
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Russian MPs visited Denmark and
Iceland in June as part of a comprehensive exchange visit programme.
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More women in the police force
would promote gender equality in the rest of society, according to policewomen
gathered for a conference of the Nordic-Baltic Network of Policewomen in
June.
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The Nordic Council of Ministers is
providing a grant of DKK 1.4 million to fund a joint study of the food sector in
the Region proposed by the national fair trading authorities.
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The Nordic Council of
Ministers’ Office in Latvia held “The Nordic Council of Ministers Action Plan
for Combating the Use of Drugs - Best Practice Seminar” on the 6th of June as
part of the war on drugs.
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Since 1999, more than 400
projects with some form of Nordic funding have been run to improve the standard
of living of children and young people in vulnerable social groups in the Baltic
States and North-West Russia.
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The Nordic governments have
decided to streamline co-operation and simplify the structure of the Nordic
Council of Ministers. The number of Council of Ministers will be cut from 18 to
11.
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The Nordic Music Committee (NOMUS),
the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), the Nordic Literature and
Library Committee (NORDBOK) and the Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts
(NordScen) will cease to operate as official Nordic institutions in 2007 as a
result of the structural changes to cultural co-operation in the Region agreed
by the Ministers of Culture.
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The Estonian
Minister of Social Affairs, Jaak Aab, stressed the important work the Nordic
Council of Ministers has done to combat trafficking in women, to promote gender
equality and to raise the issue of the increase of pornography in the public
sphere.
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A Nordic-funded network of border
regions in the Baltic Sea Region will be launched by the Nordic Council of
Ministers and the Council of the Baltic Sea States in September. Baltic
Euroregional Network (BEN) will have a total budget of €1.4 million and has just
been approved for funding by the EU Baltic Sea Region Interreg III B
Neighbourhood Programme.
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Representatives of the Nordic
Council and the Conference of Arctic Parliamentarians gathered in St. Petersburg
in Russia to discuss the future of parliamentary co-operation in the Arctic
Region. One of the many themes on the agenda was the follow up to the ACIA
report about climate changes.
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Connie Hedegaard, who doubles as the
Danish Minister of the Environment and Minister for Nordic Co-operation, invited
selected Danish ministries to an internal seminar under the auspices of the
Danish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2005.
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When they convened in June, the
Nordic Ministers of Culture considered proposals drawn up by the Nordic
Structure Group to reform and revitalise Nordic cultural co-operation.
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