Norwegian Regional Leaders: Seeks New Solution for Northern Nordic Cooperation Finland is leaving the Barents Euro-Arctic Council, which also impacts the Barents Regional Council. A new form of cooperation that encompasses both regional and national levels should be created across the Cap of the North, believes the regional political leaders in Northern Norway.
"The Barents Region Has a PR Problem" Bodø (High North News): The number of young people in the Arctic has plummeted over the past years. Martin Gamst Johnsen, Chair of the Barents Regional Youth Council, wants to address this.
The Green Shift Needs the Mineral Industry, Says Linda Haukland (KrF) “If we are to continue having a technological development, we will have to extract the metals needed for mobile phones, electric cars, windmills, and batteries”, says Nordland County Councilor for Planning and Industry Linda Haukland.
Initiative to Qualify Foreign Nurses A new education program in Nordland county, Norway is to equip educated nurses from other countries outside the EU/EEA area with the qualifications required to work as nurses in Norway.
Nordland: New Export Record, Population Figures Troublesome Figures from Indeks Nordland show that export from Nordland County increased by NOK 28.8 million from 2017 to 2018. Population figures are not encouraging, however, with an increase of a meagre 144 new inhabitants in 2018.
