A challenged Nordic supermodel

NFU Blog 2015-06-05NFU Blog Three weeks ago I was in Reykjavik to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Nordic labour market. The conference was organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers and gathered people from all Nordic countries. The common Nordic labour market...

No Nordic model without Europe

NFU Blog 2015-05-09NFU Blog NFU’s goal is to safeguard and promote the Nordic model. So when going down to Brussels, those are the glasses that I am wearing. And not only because it is my job, I am passionate about it too. But there is actually a wider agenda that...

Sustainable accounting

NFU Blog 2015-05-06NFU Blog I was made aware of a very interesting piece of work recently, that got me to thinking: How can we get the financial sector to take underlying but unacknowledged sources of capital – social and human – into account? Sources of capital that...

Finance and the X-factor

NFU Blog 2015-05-05NFU Blog Flash. Late November 2014, Brussels. I am at the European Banking Federation’s annual conference. Frederic Oudea, incoming President of the organisation holds a keynote address and says: “Financial institutions depend on client...