For nearly 100 years policymakers and progressives have looked to Scandinavian countries as model nations, but despite their best branding efforts, the region's hold on happiness is slipping ...

Scandinavian countries have dominated the list for years. In the last four reports, the top spot was claimed by Denmark, Norway, Finland and Switzerland (which is not in Scandinavia).

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“The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia” by Michael Booth (Picador) Those sky-high happiness surveys, it turns out, are mostly bunk.

The cityscape and skyline of Stockholm, Sweden. Johner Images/Getty Images. According to Sartoretto, Scandinavian countries have created people-first nations, investing heavily in universal health ...

Scandinavia is the American left’s Shangri-La. It is the land of social democracy and of all good things. It is the answer to any objection that new welfare benefits can’t be adopted here.

Lakey: A lot of people mistakenly believe that the countries with Viking ancestry—Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland—have always had the high standard of living that they do today.

As Russian aggression grows, the Scandinavian country is seeking to increase the number of young people in the military by ...

Life in a Danish refugee camp, 2015. EPA/Henning Bagger. There are signs that Denmark has set a restrictionist example for its neighbours. When it comes to immigration, Sweden is still Scandinavia ...

Scandinavian Countries Tighten Requirements For New Citizens. ... For most people, the required level of spoken Norwegian (A2) is lower than the required skill level (B1) ...