A newly hired adviser has apologised after behaving inappropriately toward several people in SF, Denmark’s Socialist People's Party. The case has shifted attention from one staff member’s conduct to how parties screen, report and contain misconduct when the person involved is a trusted employee rather than an elected figure.

Høyre wants a fixed share of new hires in the Norwegian state to go to recent graduates, according to Aftenposten. The proposal is presented as a way to renew public agencies, but it also turns state hiring into another policy tool with direct effects on standards, staffing and cost.

A Swedish Radio investigation links Moderate Party MP Jesper Skalberg Karlsson, one of the Riksdag’s strongest advocates of looser snus rules, to lectures and cooperation with organisations connected to the tobacco industry. The case puts Sweden’s nicotine policy machinery in view: agencies, lobbying networks and politicians arguing over whether snus displaces smoking or widens nicotine use.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is using a national radio interview to cast Sweden’s next election as a choice between continuity and a red-green government he describes as unexamined. The pitch rests on economic anxiety: weaker growth, higher household costs and the risk that a Middle East crisis feeds into Sweden’s already strained economy.

Kristdemokraterna and Sverigedemokraterna want Sweden’s next constitutional review to examine what should happen when MPs leave their party but keep their seat in the Riksdag. The immediate quarrel is tied to the pairing system, but the dispute reaches further into how Sweden’s list-based elections allocate power once a party fractures.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Greenland is part of Denmark “for now,” reopening a question Copenhagen has spent years trying to contain. The remark points to a harder American line on Arctic control, where Danish sovereignty, Greenlandic autonomy and US security interests increasingly collide.

A new Yle party poll shows the Social Democratic Party still leading in Finland, but with its support falling again as the National Coalition Party gains ground. The Green League records the largest drop, adding pressure on the urban centre-left vote ahead of the next electoral cycle.

Finland’s main business lobby wants to lengthen working time by removing two weekday public holidays and cutting statutory overtime and Sunday premiums. The opposition Social Democrats have moved quickly to tie the proposal to Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s party, despite government denials that such cuts are on its agenda.

Garðabær’s first municipal election figures give Iceland’s Independence Party 58 percent and one additional council seat in one of the capital region’s richest municipalities. The result stands out in a Reykjavík area where party performances have been less uniform, with local control carrying direct consequences for housing, schools and spending.

Reykjavík mayor Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir said weaker Social Democratic results in nearby municipalities had not changed her expectations for the capital, where she still believes the party can win one more council seat. The comment matters beyond election-night rhetoric: in Reykjavík, a single seat can shift housing, spending and coalition bargaining across Iceland’s largest municipal budget.

Early election figures in Hafnarfjörður prompted Social Democratic local leader Guðmundur Árni to accept responsibility for a weak result and say he would step aside soon. In one of the capital region’s more closely watched municipalities, the loss points to immediate organisational consequences for a party that uses local contests to measure strength beyond Reykjavík itself.

A KAKS poll reported by Iltalehti finds 71 percent of Finns consider a debt brake necessary, while 18 percent say it is unnecessary. The split is sharpest among Left Alliance voters, turning a technical budget rule into a direct constraint on parties built around higher public spending.

Sweden’s Left Party wants to investigate a state property tax on villas valued at SEK 13 million or more and is also discussing an exit tax for wealthy residents who leave the country. The proposal targets a narrow slice on paper, but it opens a wider question about how much taxable capital Sweden can hold in place once moving becomes part of the calculation.

A new Maskína poll puts Iceland’s Independence Party first in Reykjavík on 31.3 percent, enough on these numbers to knock out the city’s current majority. The result points past the usual electoral arithmetic toward a harder question for the capital: what voters want changed in housing, planning and municipal spending.

A U.S. delegation is expected at next week's Future Greenland conference in Nuuk, with Louisiana governor Jeff Landry reportedly among those preparing to attend. According to DR Nyheder, the visit is being handled in Greenland less as a routine conference stop than as another episode in Washington's revived campaign to secure a larger role on the island.

Sweden’s governing Tidö parties lost 1.5 percentage points in SVT/Verian’s May poll, while the left-green opposition opened a 10.7-point lead, the widest bloc gap since August 2023. The movement is concentrated among male voters, cutting into one of the government’s more reliable reservoirs of support.

SF says it cannot see itself governing with Venstre because agricultural interests keep outweighing drinking-water protection. The split turns a coalition question into a dispute over who pays when groundwater is polluted: farmers now, or municipalities and consumers later.

Sweden’s Moderates want families to receive three free IVF attempts, including when trying for a second child. The proposal shifts more fertility treatment costs onto the public sector and would widen access beyond first-child cases already covered in parts of the country.

A new report says 313 Swedish elected politicians can be linked to the inner core of organized crime, and 73 of them still hold office. The count turns a law-and-order issue into a corruption story inside Sweden’s own parties and municipalities.

Greenland has postponed its foreign-investment screening law for a second time, leaving strategic sectors without the legal filter politicians have promised. According to Ekstra Bladet, experts warn that while the law stalls, foreign capital can still move into an Arctic economy with few administrative defences and growing geopolitical value.

Reykjavik’s city executive has formally objected to the decision to offer only one advance-voting location for the entire capital region, at the district commissioner’s office in Kópavogur. The dispute comes as Iceland prepares for municipal elections on 16 May and after years of declining turnout in local contests.

Framsókn used its Reykjavík campaign launch to promise looser daycare rules, workplace childcare and changes to major transport projects, presenting itself as a corrective to a city hall debate split between car restrictions and all-or-nothing opposition. The offer is aimed at parents, commuters and businesses that have spent years absorbing the costs of planning fights.

Every major list in Reykjavík’s municipal election now says the city should reduce staff in its administrative apparatus. The campaign has shifted from abstract promises of efficiency to a contest over how much of city hall can be cut without touching front-line services.