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Geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic
Socialism has shown measurable successes in varied forms and moments — primarily as social democracy and municipal socialism that blended markets with strong public welfare — but its record is mixed w...
The available datasets and summaries indicate , while . These figures reflect rather than true incidence, and substantial differences in legal definitions, reporting practices, and data years mean the...
Countries most commonly cited as examples of successful democratic socialism in recent commentary are the Nordic states—often Finland and other Scandinavian countries—and small, high-state-ownership e...
Multiple Nordic countries enacted or proposed tax changes affecting marginal rates and high-income thresholds heading into 2024, but the picture differs by country: Norway introduced temporary and tar...
The available analyses show , but reported Gini values differ because sources use different scales and reference years. Official series in the provided material report the U.S. Gini around and , while...
Nordic regulation of adult content combines criminal prohibitions, age-verification experiments, education initiatives and platform pressures, but practices and emphasis vary significantly across coun...
Several NATO members — notably Baltic states, Poland, Romania and several Nordic countries — have publicly declared political support for Ukraine’s goal of eventual NATO membership and called for an “...
Belgium, several Nordic countries and France are repeatedly cited as early movers in EU digital ID wallet deployment, with Belgium described as having “a head start” for making a wallet generally avai...
Democratic socialism in Iceland and the Nordic model emphasizes a market economy combined with to reduce inequality, while the Venezuelan model under Chávez and Maduro centered on , producing starkly ...
’s income tax system sits firmly within the Nordic pattern of high personal taxation used to finance expansive public services, but it is neither identical to nor the most heavily taxed of its neighbo...
Tents erected on the South Lawn have been a recurring solution for U.S. presidents who needed more capacity for official entertaining: multiple recent administrations — notably Barack Obama and Joe Bi...
Available reporting and datasets indicate Nordic countries levy high statutory top rates and high marginal rates for affluent earners in 2024, with examples such as Denmark’s top statutory rate around...
The Human Freedom Index (HFI) 2023 (covering conditions in 2021) rates 165 jurisdictions and gives an average human freedom score of 6.75; the HFI report shows Canada ranking well above the United Sta...
The Nordic welfare model rests on , funding extensive public services. Recent analyses show variation across countries and reforms toward mixed tax structures like the dual income tax, with ongoing de...
(also reported as “W Social”) is a privately owned Swedish-incorporated start-up funded by largely from the and explicitly not an or taxpayer-funded project, and one of its largest disclosed sharehold...
The -backed social media project called was unveiled at as a Europe-hosted, identity-verified alternative to X, but has not launched, funded or officially backed the platform . Reporting shows W is a ...
The Nordic countries do differ from much of Europe in how adult content was historically legislated and in continuing national emphases — Denmark pioneered liberalization in the 1960s while Norway mai...
Yes—women’s rights and outcomes remain measurably below men’s in multiple important capacities worldwide: global indices show persistent economic and political gaps even as educational and many health...
The short answer is: in Nordic countries recorded violent-crime rates tend to show overrepresentation among immigrant populations, and this overrepresentation is concentrated among non‑Western origin ...
Peer‑reviewed and major policy‑research syntheses generally find no consistent causal link between immigration and higher overall crime rates across Western countries; several multi‑country reviews an...