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Posted Jan 3, 2013
The Wilfs aren't out front and seeking attention. In fact, they generally shy away from it, but behind the scenes they show they care with their relationships and their investment.
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owners Zygi and Mark Wilf, leadership isn't about doing interviews about the state of the organization.
It's about placing a symbolic arm around a heartbroken defensive end who suddenly and unexpectedly lost his mother during the season.
It's not about breaking down film and deciding which prospect should be chosen with the team's first-round draft pick. It's about sitting quietly in the room and listening while the people they hired to do that job debate the decision.
It's not about standing on the sideline in full view of the television cameras, so the country can see them slapping the backs of their players and congratulating the head coach. It's about retreating to the privacy of the locker room after the game and handing a necktie to the star of the day.
The understated approach has paid off this season with their Vikings surprising almost everyone to rebound from 3-13 to make the playoffs.
"Their approach works. It's good that they trust the people they hire to do their job as opposed to micromanaging the situation," Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said on Thursday. "It's refreshing in a lot of ways."
The Vikings (10-6) head to Lambeau Field on Saturday night for Episode III of their heated rivalry with the
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(11-5), less than a week after a 37-34 victory at the Metrodome that thrust them into the playoffs.
It's been a heck of a ride, with a 5-2 start preceding a stretch of four losses in five games that made every week a must-win in December.
The Vikings never panicked, taking cues from an ownership group that values patience and perspective in a league where the pendulum of emotion can swing wildly from one week to the next.
You won't see Zygi Wilf on the sideline on Saturday night and you won't hear him in the media during the frenetic buildup to this highly anticipated game — both Wilfs politely declined to speak for this story.
Now is not the time for them to be doing the talking, they said. It's the time when the focus should be on the players and coaches who have spearheaded this revival after two straight last-place finishes in the NFC North.
"Just like any family, when you go through ups and downs or different crises, it's unbelievable the relationship we have to discuss things openly and candidly," general manager Rick Spielman said. "That's so important to how you get through things. It's not a business, even though it is a business. You can attribute a lot of success we're having to the atmosphere we get to work in."
The gestures have been big and small this season, starting with sending Spielman and other members of the Vikings organization to Ohio when cornerback
Antoine Winfield
's brother was killed in September.
They did the same for defensive end
Everson Griffen
when his mother died at Griffen's home in October, making sure the distraught 25-year-old had every resource available to get through it.
"It showed me a lot," Griffen said. "It showed me they really care about their players. It showed me that I had a home here and that really helped."
Zygi Wilf also had several conversations with star running back
Adrian Peterson
over the summer when he was in the middle of his long and difficult rehabilitation from two torn ligaments in his left knee.
While many doubted if Peterson would be able to make it back, he said Wilf remained confident in his franchise player's recovery.
"I got to know him a lot better this past offseason," Peterson said. "We built a bigger bond. We had a couple of really good conversations while I was going through it. I trust him."
On the football side, the Wilfs approved spending for a set of officials to be at every practice after the Vikings struggled the previous season with penalties.
They also heeded calls from veterans and Frazier to install new turf in the practice facility, a surprise that was waiting for the team when it returned from the bye week in November.
They also provided a bigger, more comfortable private plane for the team's longer road trips to Seattle and Houston this season in addition to sparing no expense when Spielman set his sights on an important free agent or re-signing a core player.
"It's just so unique to have ownership that are in the background but are a lot more heavily involved than it's known in the public," Spielman said. "They also let people do their jobs."
The season appeared to be taking an ominous turn with a demoralizing loss at Green Bay that dropped them to 6-6.
A promising start seemed to be slipping away, so Wilf addressed the team on the Friday before a home game against the
Chicago Bears
to try to relieve some of the tension.
"He's passionate and genuine," Peterson said. "It don't get no better than that. He said, 'I got your back.'"
The Vikings haven't lost since.
"They treat our players more than just players. They're people they care about," Frazier said. "Our players sense that. That's why when Zygi came in and talked about the passion he has for this team and this organization, that resonated with them. They've seen tangible evidence in the way he treats our players.
"When some owners talk about it being a family atmosphere, you take it with a grain of salt. Our players know it for a fact. When they deal with certain issues, Zygi, Mark and the Wilf family really care about what's going on in their lives."
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Malcom K. SparrowMay 20, 2009 Testimony of: Malcolm K. Sparrow Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs Wednesday May 20th, 2009 Hearing: "Criminal Prosecution as a Deterrent to Health Care Fraud" ________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: Good afternoon Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Graham, and distinguished members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs. My name is Malcolm Sparrow, and I teach regulatory and enforcement policy and operational risk control, predominantly to government regulators, at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. I have worked on the practical challenges of fraud detection and fraud control strategy with the credit card industry, with the IRS on tax fraud, and with private, not-for-profit and public insurers on health care fraud. The units of measure for losses due to health care fraud and abuse in this country are hundreds of billions of dollars per year. We just don't know the first digit. It might be as low as one hundred billion. More likely two or three. Possibly four or five. But whatever that first digit is, it has eleven zeroes after it. These are staggering sums of money to waste, and the task of controlling and reducing these losses warrants a great deal of serious attention. One of my deep regrets is to discover that academia has paid almost no serious attention to this critical problem. I suspect this neglect is because the art of health care fraud control falls awkwardly between the traditional disciplines of health economics, health policy, crime control policy, anomaly detection and pattern recognition. For those running our major health programs, fraud comes as the unwelcome guest. Systems carefully designed and set up to provide the best possible health care have turned out to be fabulously attractive targets for criminal fraud. So health care policymakers find themselves plunged into the crime control business, whether they like it or not. Many don't like it, and find themselves quite unprepared for it. In 1993, while I was working with the IRS on a major tax fraud issue, IRS Commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson introduced me to Attorney General Janet Reno. It was in 1993 that Attorney General Reno declared Health Care Fraud to be the number two crime problem in America, second only to violent crime. That was an extraordinary position for a white collar crime to hold, and it reflected how seriously the Clinton administration viewed the problem. Attorney General Reno wanted to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the fraud controls used within the health care system, and as a result of my conversation with her, I subsequently accepted a research grant from the National Institute of Justice. My task was to study the state-of-the-art of fraud control within the health industry and, if possible, explain why health care fraud seemed so persistent and pervasive. In 1996 I published my first book on the subject, called "License to Steal," which analyzed the industry's approach. The 1996 version is now out of print, but I can briefly summarize for you it's central message. In a nutshell, the analysis showed that the health industry failed to distinguish adequately between payment accuracy and crime control. On the whole the industry did a good job using modern process improvement strategies to ensure payment accuracy--by which I mean making sure that the claims as presented were processed correctly and according to all the relevant rules. But the industry did a terrible job of crime control, with almost no procedures in place to routinely verify that the claims presented were actually true, or that services provided were medically necessary. This basic confusion, and the resulting lopsided performance, means that the health industry's controls are weakest with respect to outright criminal fraud. By contrast the industry's controls perform reasonably well in managing the grey and more ambiguous issues--such as questions about medical orthodoxy, pricing, and the limits of policy coverage. But criminals, who are intent on stealing as much as they can and as fast as possible, and who are prepared to fabricate diagnoses, treatments, even entire medical episodes, have a relatively easy time breaking through all the industry's defenses. The criminals' advantage is that they are willing to lie. And provided they learn to submit their bills correctly, they remain free to lie. The rule for criminals is simple: if you want to steal from Medicare, or Medicaid, or any other health care insurance program, learn to bill your lies correctly. Then, for the most part, your claims will be paid in full and on time, without a hiccup, by a computer, and with no human involvement at all. In 2000 I updated and reissued "License to Steal" to give an account of the progress made by the Clinton administration, but also to make clear to subsequent administrations just how much more needed to be done to properly excise the cancer of fraud from important public programs. Although I have not conducted any new field research since then, I have remained engaged with the field and have been watching developments over the last nine years with great interest and growing concern. Last month I published a summary paper analyzing recent developments, which was requested by the journal Social Research. That paper presents an analysis of why highly automated health care payment systems invite criminal assault, and what we know and don't know about the actual fraud loss rates. The paper also provides a critical assessment of the government's response to the latest round of billing scams to be discovered in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. With your permission, I would like to introduce that paper into the record.
The magnitude of a deterrent effect depends, according to criminologists, on a potential perpetrator's assessment of three factors: (a) the likelihood of getting caught (i.e. the probability of being detected or reported), This hearing clearly focuses on the third, and I certainly support the notion of effective punishment for white collar crimes, particularly those that involve an abuse of the public's trust and diversion of public funds. But I would urge the committee in its deliberations to consider the first two factors equally seriously. The third--severity of punishment--can be set or altered by statute or by adjusting sentencing guidelines. The first two are harder to change, as they depend on the underlying capacity of the detection apparatus and the capacity of the criminal justice system to deal with cases that come to light. The most obvious weaknesses in health care fraud control lie with these first two. Criminologists argue, in fact, that the first two--the probability of detection and conviction--weigh more heavily in the calculus of would-be-perpetrators than the severity of sentences because (assuming a low enough probability of detection) criminals like to believe they will never face sentencing. I would like to highlight for this committee two major issues that relate directly to the chances of crimes being detected and dealt with appropriately.
The resources available for fraud detection and control in health care are not only inadequate; they are of the wrong scale. The credit card industry has established benchmarks for "acceptable business risk" with respect to fraud losses. Their threshold is ten basis points on transaction volume, or one tenth of one percent. By contrast, estimates of fraud losses in the health industry range from 3% to 10% to 14%, depending on who you ask. Suppose for a moment the loss rate were 10%. That would be one hundred times the acceptable business risk threshold set by the credit card industry. Meanwhile, spending on program integrity functions all across the health industry tends to run at or just below one tenth of one percent of overall program payouts. My papers and books present a wealth of facts and figures to demonstrate that. These investments in control, while minimal, pay off handsomely. From year to year the Office of Inspector General (DHHS) reports return ratios per dollar spent in the region of 17 to 1. Sometimes higher. One view is that these handsome returns reveal a highly efficient operation. But any economist would tell you, conversely, that this shows the levels of investments in control are nowhere near optimal. Economists would say that one ought to keep adding controls until the marginal returns get much closer to one-to-one. Returns of the order of 20 to 1 indicate a reservoir of fraud available, and considerable ease in skimming off the more obvious cases. If you're standing in a lake, it does not take much effort to scoop up a bucket of water and hold it up for everyone to see. Loss rates due to fraud and abuse could be 10%, or 20% or even 30% in some segments. We do not have reliable figures of the loss rates, because the overpayment rate studies the government has relied on in the past have been sadly lacking in rigor, and have therefore produced comfortingly low and quite misleading estimates. By taking the fraud and abuse problem seriously this administration might be able to save 10% or even 20% from Medicare and Medicaid budgets. But to do that, one would have to spend 1% or maybe 2% (as opposed to the prevailing 0.1%) in order to check that the other 98% or 99% of the funds were well spent. But please realize what a massive departure that would be from the status quo. This would mean increasing the budgets for control operations by a factor of 10 or 20. Not by 10% or 20%, but by a factor of 10 or 20. Such a move would be politically inconceivable unless the actual magnitude of the losses were properly measured, and the cold hard facts about loss rates put on the table. Measurement is normally step one in any effective fraud control operation. Without reliable information regarding the scope of the problem, everyone is free to guess what the loss rate might be, and they will guess high or low depending on their interests. While ambiguity persists about the size and seriousness of the problem, re-sizing the controls in such a dramatic fashion could not possibly be justified. There have been some previous attempts to measure and report overpayment rates in Medicare and Medicaid. The most prominent of these were the "Medicare Overpayment Rate" studies, conducted by the Office of Inspector General (for Department of Health & Human Services) from FY 1996 through FY 2002. These OIG studies involved stratified random samples of recently paid Medicare claims, and retrospective audits of the claims selected for review. But the audit protocol the OIG used on these claims resembled a typical post-payment utilization review. These were desk-based audits, not fraud-audits. They did not involve face-to-face contact with providers, nor any contact with the majority of patients; and medical records mailed in by providers were assumed to be truthful. Thus the overpayments detected by these studies would not have included the majority of fraud types that are familiar to the Medicare program. This audit method would successfully capture processing errors (which one assumes should be few in a highly automated environment), and some cases of insufficient documentation. Despite the weak audit protocol, the first of these OIG studies, reported in 1997, showed an overpayment rate of 14%, equivalent to $23 billion in annual losses from the Medicare program. These findings shocked Congress, and the nation. In subsequent years the Medicare overpayment rates, measured the same way, settled down in the range 6% to 7%, providing some comfort for alarmed taxpayers. These figures provided the basis for the outgoing Clinton administration's claim that they had correctly identified health care fraud as a problem, and had successfully cut the problem in half. Early in 2000 the GAO was asked by the Congressional House Budget Committee to examine the methodology the OIG had been using to estimate Medicare overpayment rates. The GAO, in its response, reported Despite the clear admission that these studies did not capture most forms of fraud, and in particular would not capture the most obvious and central form of fraud--false claims--the OIG continued to use the same audit protocol in subsequent years. OIG officials argued that they had to employ the same methodology year after year in order to make the results comparable, so that any trends over time could be reliably discerned. In January of 2003 the OIG discontinued the Medicare overpayment measurement program, leaving the Medicare agency itself (CMS) to run an equivalent annual study. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue to use weak audit methodology in their Claims Error Rate Testing (CERT) program, and hence we now have no reliable indications of the overall fraud loss rates for the Medicare program. For any invisible problem, effective control begins with valid measurement. For health care fraud, control breaks down at this very first hurdle. No-one knows quite how bad the situation has become, and industry practices seem to reflect a broad reluctance to find out. Exposing the scale of the problem might involve a dose of very bad news; but such bad news is easier to swallow at the beginning of an administration than at the end of one. I believe we have an important opportunity, now, to correct this defect and establish more appropriate levels of control based in a rational way on valid measurement of the loss rates. My second major point relates to the extremely low probability, for criminals, of being prosecuted even when their false claims are detected. There is accumulating evidence that existing control strategies are missing important opportunities to shut down major false-billing scams. The last ten years has seen an extraordinary series of reports produced by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services. According to OIG reports, several different categories of patients, none of whom should be getting treatment under these programs, have been showing up in significant numbers within paid Medicare and Medicaid claims. The most obvious embarrassment involves treatments rendered to patients who were already dead on the date they were supposedly treated. In March 2000, the OIG published its investigation into provision of medical services to Medicare beneficiaries after their dates of death. They quickly found $20.6 million in such claims, paid in 1997. A significant volume of the claims showed new treatments for a patient, beginning more than a month after they had died. Dead patients also showed up in Medicaid claims around the country. An OIG report in 2006 summarized findings from ten different states, revealing $27.3 million in Medicaid payments for services after death. Patients who have previously been deported also show up in paid claims. INS records show patients who had been banished from the country prior to the reported treatment dates, and prohibited from returning. How did these patients manage to receive their treatments here within the U.S., and at public expense? In March 2002, the OIG reported finding 43 deported Medicare beneficiaries for whom fee-for-service claims had been received and paid after the recorded date of deportation. Similarly, patients who are in prison generally ought not to show up in Medicare and Medicaid paid claims. Most health insurance for prisoners is provided through prison systems, not by Medicaid or Medicare. In July 2008, another group came to light, adding to Medicare's public embarrassment. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed the presence of dead doctors within Medicare's paid claims. From 2000 to 2007 between $60 million to $92 million was paid for medical services or equipment that had been ordered or prescribed by dead doctors. In many cases, the doctors had been dead for more than ten years on the date they supposedly ordered or authorized treatments. All of these reports from the Office of Inspector General basically follow the same formulaic approach. They point out that the requisite data about deaths, deportations, and incarcerations is available somewhere within government, and so the Medicare and Medicaid programs could and should do a better job of obtaining that data from the relevant agency in a timely fashion and incorporating it into the claims processing edits and audits so that the payment systems could "auto-reject" the bad claims. Anytime we discover that totally implausible claims have been paid, there are two questions that should spring immediately to mind: First, how did these obviously fictional claims get generated? Second, why did we pay them? All of these OIG reports focus heavily on the second question--the issue of whether the claim should or could have been denied--and neglect the first one almost entirely. In my mind, the first question is potentially much more revealing, and the most striking feature of the OIG's approach to these implausible claims is that their inquiries appear to pay little or no attention to the business practices that generate fake claims. Businesses that produce such claims are not error-prone; they are fraudulent. But the strategy the OIG recommends for dealing with these various classes of implausible billings reflect more of a concern with payment accuracy than with crime control. While the OIG focuses on process improvement and payment accuracy, the scandals that emerge all around the country are about criminal fraud. The media provide a steady stream of stories about petty crooks or organized crime groups who--without ever seeing a patient or providing any valid medical services at all--manage to bill Medicare or Medicaid or some other health insurer millions of dollars. We know from these cases that fake billing scams exist, because they sometimes come to light. When claims are submitted, and they involve dead doctors or dead patients or some other feature that renders them obviously false, the most obvious explanation is that these claims arise as a chance by-product of much larger fake billing scams. To understand why the government's current response to these billing issues is inadequate, even dangerous, one has to briefly contemplate what life looks like on the other side of the fence. Let us imagine that these claims have actually been produced by Billy, the crook. Billy's goal is to steal as much as he can, as fast as possible. Billy pays a nominal fee to sign up as a Medicare provider himself, or infiltrates a billing service which submits claims on behalf of others. In order to bill Medicare, Billy doesn't need to see any patients. He only needs a computer, some billing software to help match diagnoses to procedures, and some lists. He buys on the black market lists of Medicare or Medicaid patient IDs. If he wants to bill for services that require a prescription or authorization, he will also need to buy, steal, or otherwise obtain lists of physician numbers (UPINs) to enter into his electronic claims submissions. Billy is actually vulnerable because his lists are not entirely "clean." They contain just a few cases, probably no more than one in a hundred, of doctors or patients who are dead, deported, or incarcerated. And Billy doesn't know that. In fact, Billy would pay a lot, at this point, to know which patients' and doctors' numbers to avoid.
I am happy to assist the committee in any way I can. I certainly support effective punishment for white collar crimes, particularly those that so clearly involve an abuse of the public trust. But I would urge this committee to consider also the following proposals, which would help to clarify the true nature and scope of the problem, and dramatically increase the likelihood that criminal activity will be detected in the first place and then pursued in an appropriately aggressive manner. (1) As a matter of urgency, reinstate the requirement that the OIG provide an independent audit of the Medicare overpayment rate on an annual basis. CMS should not be left to diagnose and report on its own failings. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Malcolm K. Sparrow |


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- | President | Karin Åström | ||
- | Director (Secretariat) | Britt Bohlin | ||
- | Chairman | Eygló Harðardóttir | ||
- | General Secretary (Secretariat) | Dagfinn Høybråten | ||
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- | Nordic Council | 1952 | ||
- | Nordic Council of Ministers | 1971 | ||
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The Nordic Council is a geo-political inter-parliamentary forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries that was established after World War II. Its first concrete result was the introduction in 1952 of a common labour market and free movement across borders without passports for the countries' citizens.
In 1971, the Nordic Council of Ministers, an intergovernmental forum, was established to complement the Council.
During World War II, Denmark and Norway were occupied by Germany; Finland fought a costly war with the Soviet Union; while Sweden, though neutral, still felt the war's effects. Following the war, the Nordic countries pursued the idea of a Scandinavian defence union to ensure their mutual defence. However Finland, due to its Paasikivi-Kekkonen policy of neutrality and FCMA treaty with the USSR, could not participate. They would unify their foreign policy and defence and remain neutral in the event of a conflict and not ally with NATO, which was being planned at the time. The United States, keen on getting access to bases in Scandinavia and believing the Nordic countries incapable of defending themselves, stated it would not ensure military support for Scandinavia if they did not join NATO. The project collapsed as a result with Denmark, Norway and Iceland joining NATO.[1]
Further Nordic co-operation, such as an economic customs union, also failed. This led then-Danish Prime Minister Hans Hedtoft to propose, in 1951, a consultative inter-parliamentary body. This proposal was agreed by Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden in 1952.[2] The Council's first session was held in the Danish Parliament on 13 February 1953 and it elected Hans Hedtoft as its president. When Finnish-Soviet relations thawed following the death of Joseph Stalin, Finland joined the council in 1955.[3]
On 2 July 1954, the Nordic labour market was created and in 1958, building upon a 1952 passport-free travel area, the Nordic Passport Union was created. These two measures helped ensure Nordic citizens' free movement around Scandinavia. A Nordic Convention on Social Security was implemented in 1955. There were also plans for a single market but they were abandoned in 1959 shortly before Denmark, Norway and Sweden joined the European Free Trade Area (EFTA). Finland became an associated member of EFTA in 1961 and Denmark and Norway applied to join the European Economic Community (EEC).[3]
This move towards the EEC led to desire for a formal Nordic treaty; the Helsinki Treaty outlined the workings of the Council and came into force on 24 March 1962. Further advancements on Nordic cooperation were made in the following years: a Nordic School of Public Health, a Nordic Cultural Fund and Nordic House in Reykjavík. Then-Danish Prime Minister Hilmar Baunsgaard proposed full economic cooperation ("Nordek") in 1968. Nordek was agreed in 1970, but Finland then backtracked, stating that its ties with the Soviet Union meant it could not form close economic ties with potential members of the EEC (Denmark and Norway).[3] Nordek was then abandoned.
As a consequence, Denmark and Norway applied to join the EEC and the Nordic Council of Ministers was set up in 1971 to ensure continued Nordic cooperation.[4] In 1970 representatives of the Faroe Islands and Åland were allowed to take part in the Nordic Council as part of the Danish and Finnish delegations.[3] Norway turned down EEC membership in 1972 while Denmark acted as a bridge builder between the EEC and the Nordics.[5] Also in 1973, although Finland did not opt for full membership of the EEC, Finland negotiated a free trade treaty with the EEC that in practice removed customs duties from 1977 on, although there were transition periods up to 1985 for some products. Sweden did not apply due to its non-alliance policy, which was aimed at preserving neutrality. Greenland subsequently left the EEC and has since sought a more active role in circumpolar affairs.
In the 1970s, the Nordic Council founded the Nordic Industrial Fund, Nordtest and the Nordic Investment Bank. The Council's remit was also expanded to include environmental protection and, in order to clean up the pollution in the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic, a joint energy network was established. The Nordic Science Policy Council was set up in 1983[5] and, in 1984, representatives from Greenland were allowed to join the Danish delegation.[3]
Following the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Nordic Council began to cooperate more with the Baltic States and new Baltic Sea organisations. Sweden and Finland joined the European Union (EU), the EEC's successor, in 1995. Norway had also applied, but once again voted against membership.[6] However, Norway and Iceland did join the European Economic Area (EEA) which integrated them economically with the EU. The Nordic Passport Union was also subsumed into the EU's Schengen Area in 1996.
The Nordic Council became more outward looking, to the Arctic, Baltic, Europe and Canada. The Øresund Bridge linking Sweden and Denmark led to a large amount of cross-border travel leading to further efforts to reduce barriers.[6] However the initially envisioned tasks and functions of the Nordic Council have become partially dormant due to the significant overlap with the EU and EEA. Since 2008 Iceland has also sought EU membership.[7]
The Nordic Council consists of 87 representatives, elected from its members' parliaments and reflecting the relative representation of the political parties in those parliaments. It holds its main session in the autumn, while a so-called "theme session" is arranged in the spring. Each of the national delegations has its own secretariat in the national parliament. The autonomous territories – Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland – also have Nordic secretariats.[8]
The Nordic Council uses the three Continental-Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) as its official working languages, but also publishes material in Finnish, Icelandic and English.[9] Since 1987, under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable to any interpretation or translation costs. The Convention covers visits to hospitals, job centres, the police and social security offices. The languages included are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic.[10]
The Council does not have any formal power on its own, but each government has to implement any decisions through its country's legislative assembly (parliament). With Denmark, Norway and Iceland being members of NATO and Finland and Sweden being neutral, the Nordic Council has not been involved in any military cooperation.
Council of Ministers[edit]
The original Nordic Council concentrates on inter-parliamentary cooperation. The Nordic Council of Ministers, founded in 1971, is responsible for inter-governmental cooperation. Prime Ministers have ultimate responsibility but this is usually delegated to the Minister for Nordic Cooperation and the Nordic Committee for Co-operation, which co-ordinates the day-to-day work. The autonomous territories have the same representation as states.[11]
The Nordic Council and the Council of Ministers have their headquarters in Copenhagen and various installations in each separate country, as well as many offices in neighbouring countries. The headquarters are located at Ved Stranden No. 18, close to Slotsholmen.
Members of the Council:
State | Membership | Parliament | Membership status | Represented since | Members |
Denmark | Full | The Folketing | Sovereign state | 1952 | 16 |
Iceland | Full | Alþingi | Sovereign state | 1952 | 7 |
Norway | Full | The Storting | Sovereign state | 1952 | 20 |
Sweden | Full | The Riksdag | Sovereign state | 1952 | 20 |
Finland | Full | Eduskunta | Sovereign state | 1955 | 18 |
Greenland | Associate | Landsting | Self-governing region of the Danish Realm | 1984 | 2 |
Faroe Islands | Associate | Løgting | Self-governing region of the Danish Realm | 1970 | 2 |
Åland Islands | Associate | Lagting | Self-governing region of Finland | 1970 | 2 |
Estonia | Observers | ||||
Latvia | Observers | ||||
Lithuania | Observers |
The Sámi political structures have long desired formal representation in the Nordic Council's structures, and are increasingly de facto included in activities touching upon their interests. In addition, the Faroe Islands have expressed their wishes for full membership in the Nordic Council instead of the current associate membership.[original research?]
General Secretary[edit]
[citation needed][clarification needed]
- 1971–1973 Emil Vindsetmoe
- 1973–1977 Helge Seip
- 1977–1982 Gudmund Saxrud
- 1982–1987 Ilkka-Christian Björklund
- 1987–1989 Gehard af Schultén
- 1990–1994 Jostein Osnes
- 1994–1996 Anders Wenström
- 1996–1999 Berglind Ásgeirsdóttir
- 1999–2007 Frida Nokken
- 2007–2013 Jan-Erik Enestam
- 2014-present Britt Bohlin
Some desire the Nordic Council's promotion of Nordic cooperation to go much further than at present. Gunnar Wetterberg, a Swedish historian and economist, wrote a book entered into the Nordic Council's year book that proposes the creation of a Nordic Federation from the Council in a few decades.[12]
In June 2013, Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson stated that, in the event of a yes vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Iceland would welcome Scotland as a member of the Nordic Council.[13] The following month, Søren Espersen, deputy leader of the far-right Danish People's Party, said in an interview: "There's lots of opportunities. We are so close to each other in so many ways. There will immediately be a close connection. I know that the Danish government will accept straight away that Scotland could be a member of the Nordic Council."[14]
See also[edit]
- Arctic Cooperation and Politics
- Baltic region
- Baltoscandia
- Council of the Baltic Sea States
- European Union
- Nordic Council Film Prize
- Nordic Council Music Prize
- Nordic Council's Literature Prize
- Nordic Passport Union
- Nordic countries
- West Nordic Council
- ^ The plan for a Scandinavian Defence Union, European Navigator. Étienne Deschamps. Translated by the CVCE.
- ^ Before 1952, Nordic Council
- ^ a b c d e 1953–1971 Finland joins in and the first Nordic rights are formulated., Nordic Council
- ^ The period up to 1971, Nordic Council of Ministers
- ^ a b 1972–1989, Nordic Council of Ministers
- ^ a b After 1989, Nordic Council of Ministers
- ^ "Further Icelandic support for EU membership | IceNews – Daily News". Icenews.is. 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ^ About the Nordic Council
- ^ "Norden". Norden. Norden.org. 2009-09-11. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ The Nordic Council of Ministers
- ^ Wetterberg, Gunnar (3 November 2010) Comment The United Nordic Federation, EU Observer
- ^ National Collective. "Icelandic Prime Minister Ready to Welcome an Independent Scotland". Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ^ National Collective. "Scottish EU Membership Straightforward and in Denmark's Interest". Retrieved 10 July 2013.
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Metro Atlanta has some of the healthiest residents in the country, but life's different for at least one resident of Bellaire, Ohio, located just across the Ohio River from West Virginia.
There, emergency medical workers were called to the home of a 43-year-old man who had sat in his recliner for so long — at least two years — that his skin had grown into the chair's fabric.
He had been using the bathroom in his pants and maggots were visible, according to a local TV station.
Unbelievably, this man has a "girlfriend" who lives in the house with him. Authorities said she would bring the man plates of food. She called 911 when her boyfriend became unresponsive.
A hole had to be cut through a wall to remove the man from the rented home. He later died, according to the Toronto Sun.
This sort of thing happens more often than it should — in 2008 a woman was found grafted to her boyfriend's toilet seat.
In other disturbing news, soccer fans smuggled a corpse into a game in Colombia (not South Carolina).
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That's the ultimate in lazy, making your girlfriend bring you food.
March 30th, 2011
4:39 pm
bet he used to tailgate at UGA
March 30th, 2011
4:43 pm
Dateless I am sure the girlfriend is now available.
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Sounds like the "Big Mamma" episode on Nip Tuck several years ago. Big fat woman was fused to her sofa, stuck in her own waste. Fire dept. carried her out through a hole in the wall then loaded her on a flat bed truck for the ride to the hospital. Funny, and tragic.
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Things I dont understand
1) If you follow the links, there is one item where the landlady's excuse for not knowing how horrible things were was that he was covered up in a blanket. DIDN"T SHE HAVE A NOSE??????
2) What is the mental competence of the girlfriend and roommate for them to tolerate such heinous conditions. If someone even dribbled a little urine on my bathroom floor, the stench becomes bad after a day. Imagine these people having no problem living in such a terrible place.
3) So if his skin was fused, I take it that he didn't even get up an inch to take a dump. Are we to assume , there was many months of excrement helping forge that bond between his behind and the chair?
April 1st, 2011
8:30 am
Uh – think this is an APRIL FOOLS JOKE
April 1st, 2011
3:49 pm
Diane, Sadly this is NOT an april fools joke. It was posted on other news agency websites a few days ago. AJC is just really really late in reporting this.
April 1st, 2011
4:19 pm
Humans are so nasty & disgusting, most of them. YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If his nasty filthy self could have a girlfriend anyone can. Pooping & wetting his pants, I can only imagine the stinch. DOUBLE YUK!!!
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