Dear all on the Scandinavian Politics list,
Three quick notices.
1. Most of you will no doubt have noted that Sweden is experiencing its own cartoons crisis, a year and a half after Denmark's. The Economist has a good summary in this week's edition, and the English-language online paper the Local (www.thelocal.se) has also covered it, so I needn't go into details here. Suffice it to say that, interestingly, Swedish newspapers have been generally rather keener to stand up for freedom of speech than they were during the Danish crisis (although their attempts to assert the differences between the two episodes have, if you ask me, been somewhat less convincing).
2. I've had two expressions of interest in presenting papers at the 2008 PSA conference in Swansea, on Swedish or Nordic trade unions. If anyone else thinks that they could contribute a paper in roughly that field, we might have a panel proposal in the pipeline. Let me know if you do.
3. A week ago, Norway held its local elections, and there were mixed fortunes across the spectrum. Many thanks to Nick Sitter of the Norwegian School of Management, who's written an excellent commentary on the outcome, which I attach as a Word file.
Best,
Nick.
