1400 euros for 100 km/h in the city (Letter from Scandinavia 2)

Don't have sex on roundabouts, don't kill Basques, don't post pictures of yourself on instagram while running from the police. Read what they dealt with in May in Scandinavia.

Denmark was mentioned in Slovakia more often than usual in May, when the world hockey championship was held in this country with the least hockey in Scandinavia. However, Scandinavia continued to live its life. Let's take a look at what happened here in the last few weeks.

Norwegians overtake Swedes again

Norwegians like to dominate almost any ranking, but than the overall position is a view of Sweden's position. If the Norwegians are higher, they are satisfied. And so they are now doubly happy. The latest report from the European Transport Safety Committee (ETSC) revealed that with 106 fatal accidents in 2017, Norway has become the safest country in Europe, overtaking Sweden for the first time. As recently as 1970, 570 people died on Norwegian roads. Long-term work in education, better roads and, of course, better cars are responsible for this dramatic decrease. Undoubtedly, draconian fines for speeding or alcohol behind the wheel also contribute to the discipline of drivers. If you drive in Norway at a speed of 40 km/h at a speed of 30 km/h, you will pay a conversion of 220 euros. 10 km/h faster, you already pay 900 euros. If you run a hundred in the city, you will pay 1400 euros and lose your driver's license for a year. From our point of view, the fact that there is a clear trend in the number of fatal accidents is interesting. The more east and south you go, the higher the risk of a fatal road accident. In Slovakia, with a similar population, 250 people died on the roads last year.

Norway introduced a speed limit as one of the first countries in the world. In 1912, it was allowed to drive at a speed of 15 km/h in Norwegian cities, 35 km/h in the countryside.

Norwegians buy Swedish alcohol

Another interesting statistic speaks to the relationship between Norwegians and Swedes. The gap between the price level and the purchasing power of Norwegians and Swedes continues to open. And due to the alcohol policy in both countries, this is also reflected in alcohol purchases, for which the Swedish the Norwegian state monopoly. Never in history have Norwegians bought as much alcohol at the Swedish border as in the first quarter of 2018. The Swedish border alcohol store, where the residents of Trondheim travel, has seen an incredible 15 percent increase in turnover. Every day of the week, a free bus leaves Trondheim three times a day for Norwegians eager for cheap shopping in neighboring Sweden.Norwegians are willing three hours on the way to save money. In total, Norwegians bought almost 4 million liters more alcohol in Sweden than in the same period last year. Increased taxes on food (on sugar) by the Norwegian government contributed to this, but also the growing wealth of Norwegians, which the Norwegian bank reports on its website every day. Currently, the state pension fund, where Norwegian money from oil flows, has 8,461,000,000,000 Norwegian kroner, that is approximately 887,000,000,000 euros, on its account.

The average Norwegian drinks 7.7 liters of pure alcohol per year. Victorious Belarusian 17.6 liters, Russian 15.1, Slovakian and Czech 13. He drinks less often, but in larger doses.

 

Don't have sex on roundabouts

Every year in May, the national holiday is celebrated in Norway, and traditionally, before that, Norwegian high school graduates say goodbye to school with exuberant celebrations. If you come to Norway in May, you can expect some really debauched scenes. Their free morals are evidenced by the fact that the director of the Norwegian Road Administration, Terje Moe Gustavsen, considered it necessary to ask the graduates to at least avoid sex on roundabouts or run naked on bridges, because then the drivers do not pay attention to the traffic situation. Loose Norwegian youth...

Fear of Muslims

17 percent of Norway's population are immigrants, or children whose parents are both immigrants. Only 4 percent of Norway's population is Muslim.

Condemned Submarine Builder

The scary story of the Danish inventor Peter Madsen and the Swedish journalist Kim Wallová traveled around the world and was also written about in Slovak Denmark has been following the story since August, as if cut from the harshest Nordic crime stories. The eccentric and admired Madsen invited the young journalist to his submarine, where he brutally sexually abused her, murdered her, sawed her body and threw it into the sea. Thanks to the excellent work of the Danish and Swedish police, within a few weeks the case was clarified, all possible evidence was collected, a trial was held and eight months after the murder, Madsen was sentenced to life imprisonment. His lawyer has yet to appeal, and given the lack of solid evidence for the manner in which Wallova lost her life, there is still speculation about the possibility that the court will acquit Madsen. We'll keep an eye on it. Perhaps there is no danger of a procedural error by the courts here, nor of Madsen's flight to style="text-align: justify;"> 

Longest reigning king

Let's move to Sweden. The scandal of the recognized institution of the Swedish Academy, which is also responsible for awarding Nobel prizes, is at its peak. The impact of the #metoo campaign, which exposed the fact that the academy covered up the sexual harassment of a number of women (including Sweden's crown princess) by the husband of a member of the academy, strange dealings with subsidies, the disclosure of the top secret decision on Nobel prize winners - all this was done within a few weeks from a respected institution a target of ridicule and contempt. In 2018, the Nobel Prize for Literature will no longer be awarded. Probably not even in 2019... We'll see it will end. The Swedish king Karol XVI was already involved in the solution. Gustav, who on April 26 became the longest-reigning monarch in Sweden's history (reigning for almost 45 years), surpassing Magnus Eriksson's record from the 14th century.

One hundred years of the Baltics

Speaking of history, the Baltic countries, which after escaping from the Russian grip proudly claim to belong to Scandinavia, are celebrating the centenary of their founding this year. That is also why the visits of the anointed heads alternate here. In April, Norwegian crown prince Haakon and his wife crossed all three Baltic countries and confirmed (in the north) the already known fact that it's Scandinavian, not Russian.

Don't kill the Basques anymore

If you have friends from Bilbao, we have good news for them: they won't be killed in Iceland anymore. After 400 years, Iceland has abolished an old law that called on the inhabitants of the West Fjords to kill any Basque who approaches the Icelandic shores. The law was passed after starving Basque shipwrecked sailors ransacked an empty house in the village of Thingeyri and stole dried fish. The Icelanders were so upset by this un-Icelandic act that they killed all fourteen Basques in their sleep (only one young man escaped), threw them into the sea and decided once and for all the entire Basque nation to come to Iceland. The murder itself remains to this day the biggest massacre in the history of the island. This absurd law was finally repealed in the spring, and in a symbolic gesture of reconciliation, the descendant of the victims, Xabier Irujo, shook hands with the descendant of the peasants who caused the massacre, Magnus Rafnsson.

Thief on Instagram

Iceland also enjoyed the story of the thief Sindri. Sindri Þór Stefánsson stole about thirty computers in Reykjavik, the police arrested him and placed him in a pre-trial detention cell pending the judge's decision on his further fate. As the policemen themselves found the cell in their station not very comfortable, they decided to transfer him to the prison with guarding. In the morning, Sindri climbed through the window, drove to the airport, and before the police arrived at work, he was already on the first morning flight to Stockholm, coincidentally the Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir was also flying with him. The Icelandic police issued an international arrest warrant for Sindri, and a week later he was arrested by his Dutch colleagues in Amsterdam. Sindri was revealed by Instagram. Sindri's friend posted a photo of them together on his Instagram account with the hashtag #sindri. Vacation in Amsterdam is over for Sindri and today he is on his way home to cold Iceland.

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