Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Greatest Authority 21 11, 10:10pm

@ThorsomeTarmukas It is true, the Nordic Council is only organization.

I have read Michael Booth's book, "THE ALMOST Nearly Perfect PEOPLE, Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia,
which appeared last year.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/22/nearly-perfect-people-nordic-miracle-review

Icelanders describe the book a very Nordic Council's activities. Reputedly, without exception meetings go so that Sweden, Norway and Denmark are planning together with big plans and Finland and Iceland are always gather in one corner to talk with each other in English. Icelanders also tell about the book that they feel that they are by nature quite close to Finnish. If you think that the Scandinavia / Nordic countries have a football team, then Sweden, Denmark and Norway have a start and Finland and Iceland are sort of on the bench. Being involved in the team, but in a way the exchange of players. :)

It is true that a large number of immigrants will change the atmosphere especially in small towns in the Nordic countries. My home near is a small village where is already about 10% of the population of immigrants so that the Arabic language has become increasingly widespread throughout the North.

I have never received anything bad to say about Estonia / Estonians , and there are talked about grand plans to build a subway tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn, which would create a sort of large "twin city".
I'm sorry about all injustice / oppression of what the Soviet Union did to Estonia during World War II and after, and i am sorry
about the fact that Finland was not able to help Estonian very much during that time becouse Finland was actually also quite a difficult situation. But Estonia have risen very well during the last fair 20 years into a modern constitutional state. Good Estonia!!