Norway’s Tiniest Island Town Votes to Stop Being a Town
With 520 residents, a ferry, and a budget that can no longer pay for a nurse, Fedje decided to merge with its neighbor across the strait, a reversal after years of resisting Oslo’s pressure.
Danish Court Hands Down First Conviction Under Law Against Burning Holy Books
A 34-year-old man who set fire to a Quran outside a Copenhagen mosque received a suspended sentence, in a case that tests a law passed to end a diplomatic crisis.
In Latvia, Coalition Talks Snag on the Language Children Learn In
A week after an inconclusive election, prospective partners agree on defense and the budget but not on how hard to police a shift to Latvian-only schooling.
Sweden Extends Police Search Zones to Six More Cities After a Year of Mixed Results
The zones, which let officers search anyone without suspicion, produced hundreds of weapons seizures but also tens of thousands of searches that found nothing, a government review says.
